Angela R. Riley

Angela R. Riley is an American and Potawatomi jurist serving as the chief justice of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Supreme Court since 2010. She is a professor of law at UCLA School of Law. She is an appellate justice at both Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians Court of Appeals and the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Court of Appeals. In 2025, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Life Riley is a member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a descendant of the Pettifer family. She grew up on a farm near Saddle Mountain, Oklahoma, and attended school in Mountain View. After graduating, she clerked for chief judge Terence C. Kern of the Northern District of Oklahoma and then worked as a litigator at Quinn Emanuel, specializing in intellectual property litigation. From 2010 to 2015, Riley served as Director of University of California, Los Angeles's (UCLA) American Indian Studies Center.

Riley's research focuses on indigenous rights, particularly cultural property and Native governance.

Riley has two daughters.