 Porter is a citizen of the Seneca Nation (Heron Clan) and was raised in the Nation's Allegany Territory. He earned his undergraduate degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and his law degree from Harvard Law School. His experience includes private law practice in Washington, D.C. and government service as the first Attorney General of the Seneca Nation and first Chief Justice of the Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri. He has been a member of the tenured law faculty at the University of Kansas and the University of Iowa. Porter's scholarship has focused on American Indian nation law and governance (particularly the Haudenosaunee), as well as indigenous citizenship, political participation, identity, and decolonization. |