Academic and Judicial Career
She formerly served as Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Kansas and the director of Tribal Law and Government Center at KU. Previously Leeds taught law at the University of North Dakota and served as director of the Northern Plains Indian Law Center.
Leeds currently serves as the chief judge of the Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation's District Court, the associate judge of the Kaw Nation's Supreme Court, and the chief justice of the Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma's Supreme Court.
Leeds serves on the board of the National American Indian Court Judge's Association and on the National Judicial College's tribal advisory board.
She was the youngest person to ever serve as a Cherokee Nation Supreme Court judge, as well as the only woman.
In the past, she has served as a special judge for the Muscogee Creek Nation's District Court and associate judge of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians's Court of Appeals.
In 2011, Leeds accepted the position of Dean at the University of Arkansas, School of Law In Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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