Leadership

2013 – 2015 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President Mary Smith
Cherokee Nation
17533 Maple Drive
Lansing, IL 60438

President-Elect Linda J. Benally, Esq.
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation
Law Department
400 N. 5th St. MS 8695
Phoenix, AZ 85004

Past President Patty Ferguson-Bohnee
Pointe-au-Chien Indian Tribe
Faculty Director, Indian Legal Program
Director, Indian Legal Clinic
Clinical Professor
Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
1100 S. McAllister Ave – PO Box 877906
Tempe, AZ 85287
Ofc: 480-727-0420, Fax: 480:727-9270

Treasurer Lawrence Baca
Pawnee Nation

Secretary Thomas Weathers
Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska (Aleut)
Vasquez Estrada & Conway LLP
Courthouse Square
1000 Fourth Street, Suite 700
San Rafael, CA 94901
Ofc:  (415) 453-0555; Fax: (415) 453-0549
tweathers@vandelaw.com

Executive Director Ann Marie Bledsoe-Downes

Director – Gabriel S. Galanda
Round Valley Indian Tribes
Attorney at Law
Galanda Broadman, PLLC
PO Box 15146
Seattle, WA 98115
Ofc: 206-691-3631; Fax: 206-299-7690

18620 SW 39th Court
Miramar, FL 33029
Ofc: 561-302-5297
Director Aliza Organick
Dine’ Nation
University of New Mexico
1117 Stanford NE
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Ofc: 505-277-4140
Director Doug Nash
Nez Perce
Seattle University School of Law
Sullivan Hall
901 12th Ave.
Seattle, WA 98122
Director Sara Setshwaelo
Ione Band of Miwok
Dentons US LLP
San Franciso, CA