Melissa L. Tatum

Faculty, Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory; American Indian Studies

Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs, The University of Arizona

2016 - Current

Affiliated Faculty, Gender and Women's Studies, 2015 - present.

Research Professor of Law

University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

2014 - Current

Research Professor of Law & Director, Indigenous Peoples Law, 2012 - 2014; Research Professor of Law & Associate Director, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program, 2009 - 2012.

Co-Director, the Native American Law Center

University of Tulsa College of Law

2000 - 2008

Director, LL.M. Program in American Indian and Indigenous Law (previously Co-Director), 2002 - 2006; Director, Dublin Study Abroad Program, Summer 2002, 2006, & 2008.

Professor of Law (previously Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, & Visiting Assistant Professor)

University of Tulsa College of Law

1995 - 2008

Judge

Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals

1999 - 2006

Law Clerk to Judge Cornelia Kennedy

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

1994 - 1995

Law Clerk to Judge James Ryan

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

1993 - 1994

Law Clerk to U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven D. Pepe

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

1992 - 1993

University of Michigan Law School

J.D. (1992)

Honors: magna cum laude

Trinity University

B.A. (1989)

Honors: magna cum laude

Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program

Graduate Student Advisor

2019 - Current

Applied Intercultural Arts Research

Member

2019 - Current

Executive Committee, American Indian Studies GIDP

Member

2017 - Current

Native Nations Institute

Faculty Associate

2013 - Current