Patty Ferguson Bohnee
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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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.
- J.D. Columbia University School of Law 2001
- B.A. Stanford University 1997
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.
- Dauber,Mark Robert*, Ferguson,Patricia Andrea, Karin,Marcy, Ogrady,Catherine. PROPOSAL TO EXPAND THE CIVIL JUSTICE CLINIC AT THE ASU SANDRA DAY OCONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW BY CREATING A HOMEOWNER ADVOCACY UNIT. AZ ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE(12/7/2010 - 6/30/2014).
Courses
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
2021 Fall
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 791 | Seminar |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
2020 Spring
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LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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LAW 781 | Independent Study |
LAW 776 | Indian Legal Clinic |
- 2020 Spirit of Excellence Award, American Bar Association
- 2015 Woman of the Year, American Indian Excellence in Leadership Awards, Phoenix Indian Center
- 2011 Judge Learned Hand Emerging Leadership Award, Arizona Chapter of American Jewish Committee
- 2010 Frank Harrison & Harry Austin Citizenship Award, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona and the Arizona Indian Gaming Association
- 2009 Member of the Year Award, Native American Bar Association of Arizona
- 2009 President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness, Arizona State University
- 2009 Outstanding Law School Faculty Award, Equal Justice Works
• 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)