Attorney, Diplomat & Human Rights Expert; Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council; Chair of Native American Law Practice at Jenner & Block
Keith M. Harper Biography
Ambassador Keith M. Harper is an attorney and diplomat who became the first Native American to serve as a U.S. Ambassador, holding the position of U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Harper has developed a career focused on Native American law, human rights, and international diplomacy. His confirmation by the U.S. Senate marked a significant moment in American diplomatic history.
Before his ambassadorship, Harper served as senior staff attorney and head of the Washington, D.C., office of the Native American Rights Fund. He represented the plaintiff class of 500,000 individual Indians and served as class counsel in the Indian trust funds lawsuit, "Cobell v. Salazar," which resulted in a $3.4 billion settlement, the largest settlement of a lawsuit against the United States. Harper also taught federal Indian law as an adjunct professor at Catholic University Columbus School of Law and American University Washington College of Law.
Harper's public service includes chairing Native American policy for a presidential campaign and serving on the presidential transition team in the Energy and Environment Cluster. He was a commissioner on the President's Commission on White House Fellowships and served as a Supreme Court justice for the Poarch Band of Creek Indians and as an appellate justice on the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court. While at New York University School of Law, Harper was articles and notes editor of the Journal of International Law and Politics, a Root-Tilden-Snow Scholar, and a fellow at the Center for International Studies, later clerking for the Honorable Lawrence W. Pierce on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Harper has received recognition for his work in law, diplomacy, and human rights, including the American Bar Association's "Human Rights Hero" award, the Cherokee National Statesman Award, the National Congress of American Indians Special Recognition Award, and selection as one of 50 "Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America" by National Law Journal. He also received Georgetown Law's O'Neill Institute Lifetime Achievement Award in Human Rights. Harper serves as co-chair of the Human Rights and Global Strategy Practice and chair of the Native American Law Practice at Jenner & Block, and teaches a course on human rights at Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs as a senior fellow. He has been appointed to the American Constitution Society board of directors and elected chair of the board for a two-year term.
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