Hon. Allie Greenleaf Maldonado is the treasurer of the All Rise Board of Directors. She is the first citizen of a federally recognized tribe to serve on the Michigan Court of Appeals, to which she was appointed in 2023. In addition to being a citizen of the State of Michigan, she is a citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and a member of the Turtle Clan. In 2014, she was voted “Woman of the Year” by Michigan Lawyers Weekly, and in 2015, selected as the “Unsung Hero” for the State Bar of Michigan Representative Assembly. She serves on the Tribal State Federal Judicial Forum, the Michigan Court of Appeals Education Committee, and the Michigan Judicial Council Generative AI and the Courts Work Group.

Judge Maldonado authored a chapter titled “Walking With My Ancestors: Tribal Justice for Salmon Running” for the book “Tough Cases: Judges Tell the Stories of Some of the Hardest Decisions They’ve Ever Made” published by New Press in 2018. In 2022, she was honored with the Mary S. Coleman Award by the Women Lawyer’s Association of Michigan and the Tecumseh Peacekeeping Award from the Indian Law Section of the Michigan State Bar. She received her juris doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School. While there, she served as a Contributing Editor for the law review, and following graduation, she was selected through the honors program at the U.S. Department of Justice to serve as a litigator in the Indian Resources Section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division.