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Victoria Sutton

Titles

  • Visiting Professor

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Environmental Sciences, Univ of Texas at Dallas ‘89
  • J.D., magna cum laude, American University Washington College of Law ‘98
  • M.P.A., Old Dominion University ‘86
  • BS., BS., cum laude, Animal Science and Zoology, Pre-Veterinary, North Carolina State University ’77, ‘80

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Biography

Victoria Sutton is a member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina.

Prof. Sutton is a founding Member of the National Congress of American Indians, Policy Advisory Board, serving since 2005. She has taught Indigenous Justice, American Indian Law, Environmental Law and Emerging Technologies Law. International Environmental Law and Constitutional Law as well as courses related to Native American culture and law in the TTU Anthropology and Archaeology Department.

She served as the Native American students association advisor at Texas Tech University and at Yale University during her visitorship. She currently serves on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of TTULaw. She also leads the TTU Indigenous & Native American Studies Circle where they are developing a certificate and minor program for graduates and undergraduates.

For the American Association of Law Schools, she served as the national committee Chair of the Indigenous and Native American Law Section. She also served as the Secretary for the National Native American Bar Association.

She is also a lifetime Sequoyah Member of the American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES).

In 2018-19, she served as the Native American Cultural advisor for a musical in Hollywood.

Before coming to academia, Prof. Sutton served in an internship at the U.S. Department of Justice, Indian Resources Section, and performed clerking duties for Judge Plager in the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals. Prior to that time, she served as Assistant Director in the White House Science Office for environmental science issues, and as the White House-EPA Liaison. Later, taking temporary leave from her academic post, she served as Chief Counsel for the Research and Innovative Technology Administration in the U.S. Dept. of Transportation. She was rumored to be considered for the Biden cabinet for the U.S. Dept. of Transportation.

Biden promises to appoint “at least one” Native American to the cabinet

Departments

  • Online Learning Program