Updated February 2016

Chair

Honorable Ralph Erickson
Chief District Judge, District of North Dakota

Judicial Appointees

Honorable Diane Humetewa (Hopi)
District Judge, District of Arizona

Honorable Roberto Lange
District Judge, District of South Dakota

Honorable Brian Morris
District Judge, District of Montana

Honorable Jeffrey Viken
Chief District Judge, District of South Dakota

Department of the Interior Appointee

Eric Shepard
Associate Solicitor for DOI, Division of Indian Affairs

Department of Justice Appointees

Honorable Michael Cotter
United States Attorney, District of Montana

Tracy Toulou (descendant of the Colville Confederated Tribes)
Director of the Office of Tribal Justice

Federal and Community Public Defender Appointee

Neil Fulton
Federal Defender for South and North Dakota

At-Large Member

Dave Archambault II (Standing Rock Sioux)
Chairman, Standing Rock Sioux

Honorable Robert Blaeser (White Earth Nation)
Chief Judge, White Earth Nation

Kathleen Bliss Quasula (Cherokee Nation)
Partner, Lewis Brisbois Brisgard & Smith LLP and Commissioner for Nevada Indian Commission

Honorable William Boyum (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians)
Chief Justice, Cherokee Supreme Court

Wendy Bremner (Confederated Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska and descendant of the Blackfeet Nation)
Bureau of Indian Affairs Victim Specialist

Barbara Creel (Pueblo Jemez)
Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law and Director, Southwest Indian Law Clinic

Troy Eid
Shareholder, Greenburg Traurig LLP

Miriam Jorgenson, Ph.D.
Professor Public Policy, University of Arizona and Research Director, Native Nations Institute

Brent Leonhard
Tribal Attorney, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

Edward Reina (Salt River Pima Indian Community)
Director, Public Safety Tohono O’odham (retired)

Honorable Kevin Washburn (Chickasaw)
Professor of Law
University of New Mexico School of Law

Standing Advisory Group Liaisons (non-voting)

Angela Campbell
Practitioners Advisory Group Liaison

Lori Baker
Probation Officers Advisory Group Liaison

T. Michael Andrews
Victims Advisory Group Liaison