Patty Ferguson-Bohnee has substantial experience in Indian law, election law and policy matters, voting rights, and status clarification of tribes. She is a clinical professor of law, the faculty director of the Indian Legal Program and the director of the Indian Legal Clinic at ASU.
Professor Ferguson-Bohnee has testified before the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the Louisiana State Legislature regarding tribal recognition, and has successfully assisted four Louisiana tribes in obtaining state recognition. Professor Ferguson-Bohnee has represented tribal clients in administrative, state, federal, and tribal courts, as well as before state and local governing bodies and proposed revisions to the Real Estate Disclosure Reports to include tribal provisions. She has assisted in complex voting rights litigation on behalf of tribes, and she has drafted state legislative and congressional testimony on behalf of tribes with respect to voting rights’ issues.
Before joining ASU in 2007, Professor Ferguson-Bohnee clerked for Judge Betty Binns Fletcher of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and was an associate in the Indian Law and Tribal Relations Practice Group at Sacks Tierney P.A. in Phoenix. As a Fulbright Scholar to France, she researched French colonial relations with Louisiana Indians in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Professor Ferguson-Bohnee, a member of the Pointe-au-Chien Indian tribe, serves as the Native Vote Election Protection Coordinator for the State of Arizona.
The History of Indian Voting Rights in Arizona: Overcoming Decades of Voter Suppression, 47 Ariz. St. L.J. 1099 (2015).
The Impacts of Coastal Erosion on Tribal Cultural Heritage, 29 Forum J. 58 (2015).
Arizona Native Vote Election Protection Project 2008: Testimony to House Administration Committee Subcommittee on Elections, March 26, 2009.
Oversight Hearing on Fixing the Federal Acknowledgment Process: Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, November 4, 2009.
Spring 2021 | |
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LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
LAW 781 | Independent Study |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
• Arizona Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (2017-2021) • Advisory Committee, American Bar Association Committee on Human Rights (2016-2018). • National Commissioner, National Commission on Voting Rights, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law (appointed 2014) • Commission on Minorities in the Law, Arizona Supreme Court (2011-2017) • National Native American Bar Association, President-Elect (2009-2011), President (2011-2013), Immediate Past President (2013-2015), Treasurer (2015-2016) • American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, Tribal Lands Committee, Co-Chair (2014-2016) • American Bar Association, Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section, Vice Chair Native American Concerns Committee (2013-Present) • American Bar Association, Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice (2013-2016) • Native American Bar Association of Arizona, Founding Member, Board Member (2007-2019), Vice-President (2008-2009), President (2009-2011) • Southwest Editor, Federal Bar Association Indian Law Section Newsletter (2009-2015) • Miss Indian Arizona Association Scholarship Program Board Member (2001-present), President (2008-2013) • State Bar of Arizona, Indian Law Section Executive Council, Board Member (2007-2012), Chair-Elect (2009-2010), Chair (2010-2011)