Work Phone:
(208) 841-7504
Email:
wolfleyje@gmail.com
EPA Region:
Region 10 – (AK, ID, OR, WA & 271 native tribes)
Year of induction:
2017
Degrees:
University of Minnesota, B.A. 1979
University of New Mexico School of Law, J.D. 1982
Admissions:
State of Colorado 1982 (inactive status)
State of Idaho 1989 (retired 2026)
State of Wyoming 1993 (emeritus 2025)
State of New Mexico 2016 (inactive status 2025)
Court Admissions:
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and District of Columbia Circuits
United States Court of Federal Claims
United States District Courts of Colorado and Idaho
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho
Shoshone and Arapahoe Tribes, Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming
Pro Hac Vice admission to the United States District Courts of South Dakota, Nevada, Michigan, New York, Washington, and District of Columbia, the State Courts of California, Arizona, Montana, and the Tribal Court of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana
Other Environmental Career Experience:
Private Practice. May 1996 2024. Provided legal representation and counsel in judicial, legislative and administrative hearings in the areas of federal Indian Law, enrollment, natural and cultural resources, housing, and environmental law, land matters and economic development, and general government matters. Primarily provided legal representation to Indian Tribes on natural resource and environmental issues, including major litigation on water rights, trust management matters, employment right and jurisdictional issues.
Professor of Law. University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 2013 2020. Taught Federal Indian Law, Federal Jurisdiction, Federal and Tribal Legislation, Tribal Natural and Cultural Resources Law, Indian Water Rights, Gaming Law, and Tribal Economic Development. Founding Supervising Attorney for the Natural Resources and Environmental Law Clinic at the UNM Law School in Spring 2017.
Representative Publications:
Biagaweit Securing Water from the Mighty River in the Snake River Basin Adjudication, 52 Idaho L. Rev. 313 (2016)
Reclaiming a Presence in Ancestral Lands The Return of Native Peoples to the National Parks, 36 Nat. Res. J. 55 (Winter 2016)
You Gotta Fight for the Right to Vote Enfranchising Native American Voters, 18 U. Pa. J. Const. Law 265 (2015)
Tribal Environmental Regulatory Programs Providing Meaningful Involvement and Fair Treatment, 29 J. Envtl. Law and Litigation 389 (2014)