Elizabeth Kronk Warner is the Jefferson B. & Rita E. Fordham Presidential Dean and Professor of Law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.
Dean Kronk Warner is a nationally recognized scholar of federal Indian law and environmental law, with particular expertise in tribal sovereignty, the implicit divestiture doctrine, and the application of originalism to federal Indian law jurisprudence. She has authored or co-authored several books and more than 50 articles and book chapters on Indian law, environmental law, and the intersection of the two. She has taught Property, Federal Indian Law, Environmental Law, and Natural Resources Law, and previously supervised the Tribal Judicial Support Clinic at the University of Kansas School of Law, where she received multiple teaching excellence awards.
A citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Dean Kronk Warner has served as an appellate judge for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe and as a district judge for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.
Under her leadership, the S.J. Quinney College of Law has grown its enrollment to record levels, significantly expanded both annual fundraising and experiential education, added undergraduate degrees in legal studies, and deepened its institutional commitment to access to justice.
Dean Kronk Warner is actively engaged in the development of legal education across numerous organizations. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and as a member of the AALS Deans Steering Committee. She is also a member of the Dean's Advisory Council to U.S. News & World Report. She previously chaired the AALS Membership Review Committee, served on the Board of the Law School Admission Council, and held leadership roles in the American Bar Association. She sits ex officio on the Utah Bar Commission. A former member of the Federal Bar Association's National Board of Directors, she received the Federal Bar Association President's Award in 2014 for leadership and extraordinary service to the Federal Bar Association and its members.
In 2026, The National Jurist named her to its list of "The 25 Most Influential People in Legal Education." In 2025, she received the Sundance Women's Leadership Award for Environmental Leadership, and in 2024, Utah Business Magazine recognized her as one of the most influential women in Utah. She holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan, a B.S. from Cornell University, and also studied at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.