Stephen Wall, J.D.

Stephen Wall is an enrolled member of the White Earth Nation. Stephen was born in Roswell, New Mexico and was raised on and near the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation in southern New Mexico. After graduating from high school, he attended Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Upon completing his B.A. in Anthropology at Fort Lewis, Stephen attended law school at the University of New Mexico, graduating in 1975. Stephen has served several tribal communities as community organizer, health administrator, prosecutor and judge. In May of 2006, Stephen was appointed Department Chair for the Indigenous Liberal Studies Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in 2019 he was voted Faculty Emeritus by the IAIA Board of Trustees.