Lakehead celebrates first Aboriginal woman as law dean.

The Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University has appointed Angelique EagleWoman as its new dean--the first Aboriginal woman to head a law school in Canada.

EagleWoman is coming to Lakehead from the University of Idaho College of Law, where she is a law professor and a legal scholar. She has also served as a Tribal Judge in four Tribal Court systems.

As a practising attorney, one of the highlights of her career was serving as general counsel for her own tribe, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in Dakota.

She will begin her new role as dean in May.

EagleWoman graduated from Stanford University with a BA in political science, received her Juris Doctor degree, with distinction, from the University of North Dakota School of Law, and her LLM in American Indian and Indigenous Law with honours from the University of Tulsa College of Law.

As a law professor, she has taught in the areas of Native American law...