Founder, Leger Law & Strategy

Santa Fe, NM

Teresa Leger de Fernandez founded Leger Law & Strategy, a social justice firm focused on impact litigation, financing, economic development and the public interest. For the last 25 years she has served as General Counsel to several Native American Tribes and their business enterprises. Her work ranges from voting rights litigation to protecting sacred sites to negotiating multi-million dollar leases; it includes the strategic development of the legal, legislative, business, economic and physical infrastructure for tribal sovereigns. After President Clinton appointed her as a White House Fellow; she worked on public/private financing of affordable housing and other community development initiatives as a White House liaison at HUD. She has served as both issuer’s and borrower’s counsel for loan and bond projects ranging from resorts to schools to basic infrastructure. President Obama recently appointed her to the President’s Advisory Council for Historic Preservation. She started her academic career in the first Headstart class in New Mexico, went on to graduate from Yale and receive her J.D., with distinction, from Stanford Law School.

Links about Teresa Leger de Fernandez:

• Leger Law & Strategy, LLC
• President Barack Obama Appoints Teresa Isabel Leger to Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
• Public Advocates Making Rights Real
• Stanford Lawyer
• White House Fellows
• 2012 White House Fellows Leadership Conference Creatively Seeking Justice
• Teresa Leger appointed Member, U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
• Congressional Record PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 108th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION
• Reclaiming Their Voice, The Native American Vote in New Mexico & Beyond
• American Indian Law Center, Inc. TRANSITIONS: 4th Annual tribal leadership conference
• 2007 Joint Fall Seminar Legal Services Staff Section, Research and Committee Staff, Legislative Research Librarians
• President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
• Risk & Reinvention: How Women Are Changing The World
• Film premieres in Taos, Albuquerque & Santa Fe!
• Journey Santa Fe: The creation of SF public power utility
• Hispanic Women’s Council
• Yale Alumni Association – New Mexico Dia De Los Tres Reyes Magos Posada
• Remarque Institute
• Neil Carter Associates
• Tribal Energy in the Southwest
• Historic win for Native Americans in NM redistricting, Jewish legal precedent
• RESPONSE IN OPPOSITION TO SENA PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION TO RECONSIDER
  APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL MASTER OF THE PUEBLO OF LAGUNA, PUEBLO
  OF ACOMA, JICARILLA APACHE NATION, PUEBLO OF ZUNI, PUEBLO OF
  SANTA ANA, PUEBLO OF ISLETA, RICHARD LUARKIE, HARRY A. ANTONIO, JR.,
  DAVID F. GARCIA, LEVI PESATA AND LEON REVAL
• Laguna Pueblo

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