Ann Tweedy

Biography

Ann E. Tweedy is a Professor of Law at University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law (USD), where she teaches federal Indian law; Tribal law; property; federal courts; gender, sexuality, and law; and conflict of laws. She founded the Indian Law Certificate at USD, which is the law school’s first certificate program.

Professor Tweedy is a nationally recognized scholar on Tribal civil rights law, Tribal jurisdiction, and bisexuality and the law. To date, she has authored nineteen law review articles, including two co-authored pieces. Her work has been published in UC Davis Law Review, Washington Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, and many other journals. Her articles have been cited in seminal treatises such as “Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law,” appellate briefs, and federal and Tribal court opinions.

Before coming to USD, she served as a senior Tribal attorney for Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, and previously served as an Associate Professor at Hamline University School of Law (now Mitchell Hamline).

Professor Tweedy also currently serves as an Associate Judge for the Suquamish Court of Appeals, and she is an award-winning poet. Professor Tweedy graduated from UC Berkeley School of Law, Order of the Coif, and she also holds an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University. After law school, she clerked for Judge Ronald M. Gould of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Judge Rex Armstrong (retired) of the Oregon Court of Appeals.