Bellwood Memorial Lecture
The University of Idaho College of Law, Idaho Supreme Court and the Idaho State Bar are proud to announce the 2024 Bellwood Memorial Lecture featuring Judge Sara Hill of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
Judge Hill’s lecture is titled “Tribal Nations and the Law of a Homeland” and will discuss the role of tribal governments under U.S. law with a specific focus on her time as Secretary of Natural Resources and Attorney General of the Cherokee Nation.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Time: 3:30 p.m. PT
Pitman Center, International Ballroom
Moscow, Idaho
View Live: uidaho.edu/live
CLE Credit Available
About Judge Sara Hill
Judge Sara Hill is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma, having been sworn in earlier this year. Previously, she served as the attorney general of the Cherokee Nation from 2019 to 2023.
Hill is a graduate of Northeastern State University and earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa College of Law.
About the Sherman J. Bellwood Lectures
The Sherman J. Bellwood Lectures bring prominent and highly regarded local, regional and national leaders to the state of Idaho and the University of Idaho campus. Students have the opportunity to discuss, examine and debate a wide-range of subjects related to the justice system.
Throughout his distinguished career, Judge Sherman J. Bellwood was committed to the legal profession and to legal education. In one of his last and most generous contributions to legal education, Judge Bellwood endowed the Sherman J. Bellwood Lectures at the College of Law. According to the terms of his will, Judge Bellwood's purpose in establishing this endowment was "to enable the College of Law to invite and present persons learned in the law to lecture on legal subjects from time to time." This endowment is the largest endowed lectureship at the University of Idaho.