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Hon. Carrie Garrow (Mohawk)
Chief Judge
Saint Regis Mohawk

Carrie Garrow, J.D., M.P.A., received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, her law degree from Stanford Law School, and a master’s in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is admitted to the State Bar of California. Judge Garrow has worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor and as the Executive Director of the Center for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship at Syracuse University College of Law. She has served as a legal advisor for the Seneca Nation of Indians Court of Appeals, the Chief Judge of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s Appellate Court, and as a deputy district attorney in Riverside County, California. Judge Garrow was elected as Chief Judge of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (SRMT) in 2016.

As Chief Judge, she oversees the administration of the SRMT Court, works with the SRMT Tribal Council on expanding the Court’s jurisdiction, hears civil cases, and leads the Healing to Wellness Court. Judge Garrow also serves as an Associate Justice for the Penobscot Nation, and is also a consultant with the Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) and has had the opportunity to travel to numerous Indian nations to provide training to Tribal courts. She has co-authored Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure (2nd edition) with Sarah Deer, in addition to writing several articles on Tribal law and governance.

Some of these articles include: Joseph Thomas Flies-Away & Carrie E. Garrow, Healing to Wellness Courts: Therapeutic Jurisprudence +, 403 Michigan State Law Review 403 (2013); The freedom to pass and repass: can the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples keep the border ten feet above our heads? Indigenous Rights in the Age of the UN Declaration (Elvira Pulitano, ed 2012); Treaties, Tribal Courts, and Jurisdiction: The Treaty of Canandaigua and the Six Nations’ Sovereign Right to Exercise Criminal Jurisdiction, 2 Journal of Court Innovation 249 (2009); Following Deskaheh’s Legacy: Reclaiming the Cayuga Indian Nation’s Land Rights in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 35 Syracuse J. Int’l L. & Com. 341 (2008); Joseph Thomas Flies-Away, Carrie Garrow & Miriam Jorgensen,Native Nation Courts: Key Players in Nation Rebuilding, in Rebuilding Native Nations, Strategies for Governance and Development 115 (Miriam Jorgensen ed., 2007)