He is a former member of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse team and the former president of the Native American Bar Association of Washington, D.C. Sandra Day OConnor College of Law is dedicate do making the law school a valuable resource for addressing major regional. Corey is an enrolled member of the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point. Corey has also served as a legal fellow for former Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) at the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, with the National Indian Gaming Commission, and with the Arizona State University Indian Legal Clinic where he advised clients on intellectual property and Indian Child Welfare Act-related issues. ![]() A primary focus of Corey’s practice has been natural resource-based economic development, including the establishment of Improved Forest Management Projects in the State of California cap-and-trade program. where he primarily advised tribal governments and tribally-owned entities on a wide range of matters, including water and natural resource management issues, economic development, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, environmental regulatory issues, the protection of treaty fishing rights, and the fee-to-trust process. Since earning his degree Corey has worked in Washington, D.C. “We are very proud of Corey for all he has accomplished in such a short amount of time and are excited about the work he is doing for our tribal clients as well as his contributions to the legal profession” commented Benjamin Marcus, Drummond Woodsum Managing Partner.Ĭorey earned his law degree from the Arizona State University Sandra Day College of Law in 2011 with a special certificate in Federal Indian law. The law school was created in 1965 as the Arizona State University. ![]() The school is located in the Beus Center for Law and Society on ASU's downtown Phoenix campus. The award recognizes outstanding achievements in their professional career, volunteer work, and promotion or support of the ILP and/or ASU. The law school at Arizona State University (ASU Law) was renamed the Sandra Day OConnor College of Law in 2006, after the first female Supreme Court. The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law (ASU Law) is one of the professional graduate schools at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona. This award acknowledges and encourages service to Indian Country and the ILP by alumni who are less than ten years out of law school. Drummond Woodsum is pleased to announce that firm attorney Michael Corey Hinton has been awarded the 2018 Indian Legal Program (ILP) Emerging Leader Award presented by the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU).
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