ANN BERKLEY RODGERS

  

    Education:   

• University of New Mexico School of Law, J.D., 1983
• University of New Mexico, B.U.S., University Studies, 1980

    Professional Licenses, Certifications &     Memberships:

• State Bar of New Mexico
• United States District Court of New Mexico
• Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
• United States Claims Court
• Numerous Pueblo Courts

      Noteworthy:

• Former Co-Editor of Journal of Indian Law Section of the NM Bar
• Equal Access to Justice Legal Services Funding Campaign Committee, 1993 to 1996
• New Mexico Indian Pueblo Legal Services  Board, Director 1991-1995
• Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals Judge, 1990 - Present

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ann Berkley Rodgers, senior attorney, joined Chestnut Law Offices in 1989.  Ms. Rogers received her Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law (UNMSOL) in 1983. Prior to joining Chestnut Law Offices, Ms. Rodgers clerked for Chief Judge Santiago E. Campos, United States District Court for the District of New Mexico from November 1987 to August 1989. Prior to 1989, she was a Research Professor at UNMSOL working in water law, and Research Attorney for the Northern Pueblos Tributary Water Rights Association.

Ms. Rodgers has over twenty years of legal experience in Pueblo Indian water rights and has participated as an active attorney in several Pueblo water rights adjudications, including New Mexico ex rel. State Engineer v. Aamodt, State of New Mexico ex rel. State Engineer v. Abbott, and State of New Mexico, ex rel. State Engineer v. Kerr McGee, et. al.