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Raymond Cross was born on 24 August, 1948 in North Dakota, is an attorney. Discover Raymond Cross's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Occupation Attorney law professor
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 24 August 1948
Birthday 24 August
Birthplace Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota, U.S.
Date of death January 24, 2023
Died Place Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
Nationality North Dakota

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Who Is Raymond Cross's Wife?

His wife is Kathleen Johnston (m. 1989)

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Parents Martin Cross Dorothy Cross
Wife Kathleen Johnston (m. 1989)
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Raymond Cross Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Raymond Cross worth at the age of 74 years old? Raymond Cross’s income source is mostly from being a successful attorney. He is from North Dakota. We have estimated Raymond Cross's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

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1990

Cross served on the faculty of the  California Polytechnic State University from 1990 through 1993 and at the University of Montana from 1993 to 2015 as an expert on American Indian and environmental law.

1989

Raymond Cross married Kathleen Cross (née Johnston), his Harvard Kennedy School classmate, in 1989. They have a daughter, Helena Cross, and son, Cade Cross.

1981

Cross returned to the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in 1981 to serve as tribal attorney for his people, the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. He represented his tribe in two U.S. Supreme Court cases, Three Affiliated Tribes v. Wold Engineering 467 U.S. 138 and Three Affiliated Tribes v. Wold Engineering 476 U.S. 877, in which he successfully argued that state courts be opened to tribal damage actions against non-Indian defendants and reaffirmed fundamental principles of tribal sovereign immunity established in Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall’s Trust Doctrine.

1975

Cross served from 1975 through 1980 as the Indian Law Support Center Director for the Native American Rights Fund.

1973

Cross began his legal career in 1973 as a staff attorney with California Indian Legal Services in its Mendocino County office located in Ukiah, California.

1970

After the Indian Relocation Act fractured the family, Cross was sent to live in Santa Clara, California for his early high school years. With the encouragement of his guidance counselor at Santa Clara High School, he applied and was accepted to Stanford University. He secured a scholarship from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and graduated in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in political science. He earned his Juris Doctor in 1973 from Yale Law School and was admitted to the California Bar.

1949

He also took on the cause of his father, Martin Cross, in representing his tribal people in their long standing just compensation claim against the United States for its 1949 taking of over 156,000 acres of reservation land as the site for the Garrison Dam, the world's fourth largest rolled earth dam. Cross spent eight years lobbying Congress, and in 1992, Congress awarded the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation over $149 million and over 156,000 acres of land in just compensation for wrongs imposed on the tribal people by the Garrison Dam.

1948

Raymond Cross (born August 24, 1948) is an American attorney and law professor from the U.S. state of North Dakota. He is a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes, and a former professor of American Indian Law at the University of Montana. As an attorney, Cross represented Native Americans in multiple landmark trials, including two U.S. Supreme Court cases, and successfully won a compensation claim against the U.S. government for the flooding of 156,000 acres of tribal land in North Dakota due to the construction of the Garrison Dam.

Raymond Cross was born on August 24, 1948, in Elbowoods, North Dakota on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The youngest of ten siblings, Cross was raised in a rustic farmhouse without running water or electricity. His father, Martin Cross, was tribal chairman of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, and his mother, Dorothy Cross, was a Norwegian homesteader.