Professor Danielle Finn serves as the Program Director of the Indian Nations Gaming & Governance Program and Assistant Professor-in-Residence. Additionally, she serves as the Faculty Advisor to UNLV’s Native American Law Student Association and the Secretary of the Tribal Law Section of the State Bar of Nevada. She holds a life appointment to the bench as an Associate Judge for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and is academic faculty for Sinte Gleska University and the National Judicial College.

Previously, Professor Finn served as the Native American Affairs Advisor for the Office of the Governor of the State of Minnesota and the External Affairs Director for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Professor Finn obtained an LL.M. from the University of Oklahoma in Indigenous Peoples Law and a J.D. from Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law with a Certificate in Global Arbitration from Mitchell Hamline School of Law.

She has received numerous accolades over her career including, but not limited to: The National Judicial College’s 1 of 60 Courageous Judges in 2023, 2020-2022 United State of Women Ambassador, North Dakota Leading Lady by the North Dakota Women’s Business Center in 2019, and 1 of 50 Faces of Indian Country by Indian Country Today Media Network in 2016. She is a board member for the Cheyenne River Youth Project and the American Indigenous Business Leaders (AIBL). Professor Finn is Hunkpapa Lakota, Inhanktowan Dakota, and Hohé Nakota and is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.