About me
Jason Decker is an enrolled member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. He received an A.A.S. in Law Enforcement at the Leech Lake Tribal College in 2010. While working on his law enforcement degree, Jason took a Federal Indian Law survey course. It was during that course that he realized a law degree could open doors for him to better serve Indian communities and he decided that he wanted to attend law school. With this goal in mind, Jason went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in history from Bemidji State University in 2014. Jason worked as a dispatcher for the Leech Lake Tribal Police while working on his bachelor’s degree.
Jason graduated from Mitchell Hamline School in 2017. While at Mitchell Hamline, Jason served as vice president, then president, of the Native American Law Student Association (NALSA), participated in the National NALSA Moot Court Competition, and was managing editor of the Mitchell Hamline Law Review. During the summer after his first year of law school, Jason interned with Anishinabe Legal Services.
Jason’s Indian law career has included working for two boutique Indian law firms and in-house counsel for tribes. He is currently an Associate General Counsel for Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures. Jason also serves on the Mitchell Hamline Native American Law and Sovereignty Institute’s Advisory Board and the Mni Sota Fund’s Board of Directors.
