Robert T. Coulter, Executive Director of Indian Law Resource Center

Robert T. Coulter is an attorney who practices in the fields of Indian law and international human rights.  He is the founder and Executive Director of the Indian Law Resource Center in Helena, Montana and Washington, DC.  The Center provides legal assistance for indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.  He is a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

With more than 45 years of legal experience in the field of Indian affairs and human rights, he has published numerous articles in these and other fields of law.   Before starting the Center in 1978, he was Acting Executive Director of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law, staff attorney for the Native American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the United States Commission on Civil Rights.  He was awarded the Lawrence A. Wein Prize for Social Responsibility by Columbia University Law School in 2001 and the Bicentennial Medal by Williams College in 2002.