Sherry Hutt is the program manager for the National NAGPRA Program, housed in the National Park Service,   Washington   office.  She retired from the Arizona State Superior Court bench in 2002, after 17 years as a judge, to devote full time to the pursuits of cultural property law, and formed Cultural Property Consulting, Inc. to provide training, writing and dispute resolution support to tribes, museums and government agencies.  Dr. Hutt taught cultural property law and indigenous peoples cultural property policy and law at the  George   Washington   University,  George   Mason   University  and University  of  Arizona Rogers College of Law, prior to coming to National NAGPRA.  She has published numerous journal articles and chapters on cultural property and has coauthored three books:  Archeological Resource Protection, NPS (1992); Heritage Resources Law, Wiley and Sons (1999); and Cultural Property Law, American Bar Assoc. (2004). 

As an Assistant United States Attorney in the early 1980s, she prosecuted archeological resource criminal violation cases and continued to do training on resource protection over the ensuing 20 years for the Departments of Justice, Interior, Agriculture, Defense and Energy, as well as through the continuing education division of the  University  of  Nevada, Reno  and the National Preservation Institute.  In 2002/03 she held a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution in museum studies.  She was a trustee of the Heard  Museum in  Phoenix. She has also served as a tribal appellate judge and a member of the Arizona   State, Tribal and Federal Court Forum.  Dr. Hutt is a recipient of the Department of Interior Conservation Service Award and a Special Achievement Award from the Society of Professional Archaeologists. 

She earned a J.D. from Arizona State   University  College  of Law in 1975 and a Ph.D. in forestry/economics from Northern Arizona University School of Forestry in 2001.