Ann E. Tweedy joined the faculty of University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law as an Associate Professor in January 2020. She is a noted scholar on tribal civil rights and tribal jurisdiction, as well as on bisexuality and the law. Before coming to USD she served as an in-house attorney for Muckleshoot Tribe and as an adjunct professor for University of Tulsa College of Law. Ann has also taught at Michigan State University College of Law and California Western School of Law, and she served as an Associate Professor at Hamline University School
of Law (now Mitchell Hamline). She also previously served as a Tribal Attorney for Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and as an Associate Attorney and as Of Counsel at Kanji & Katzen,PLLC. Additionally, Professor Tweedy an award-winning poet, and her first full-length book,The Body’s Alphabet, earned a Bisexual Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Ann holds a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law (Order of the Coif) and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. After law school, Ann clerked for Hon. Ronald M. Gould of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Hon. Rex Armstrong of the Oregon Court of Appeals.