Indian Law and Tribal Relations

Water, Environmental, and Natural Resources

Business and Corporate Law

Homeowner Association Law

American Bar Association

Solicitor, Hualapai Judiciary, Hualapai Indian Tribe

Judge Pro Tem, Tribal Court of the Tohono O'odham Nation, 1995-1999

Law Clerk to Judge William C. Canby, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1986-1987

U.S. Supreme Court, 2009

Bar of the Navajo Nation, 1995

U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1986

U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1986

State Bar of Arizona Arizona, 1986

Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals

Courts of the Hualapai and Hopi Tribes and the Tohono O'odham Nation

Arizona State University College of Law Award for Outstanding Alumna for Class of 1986, September 2011

The Best Lawyers in America® (Native American Law, Water Law), 2009-2012

Arizona’s Finest Lawyers, 2010-present

Recipient, President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness, Arizona State University, 2009, in recognition of the Arizona Native Vote – Election Protection Project

DNA Peoples Legal Services: Member, Board of Directors, June 2011-present

Arizona State University: Adjunct Professor, 1986-present

Arizona State University Advisory Committee, Indian Legal Program, 2006-present

Arizona Native American Economic Coalition: Board Member, 1995-1997; Conference Chair, Annual Tribal Economic Summit, 1996

University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Water Resources: Assistant Professor, 1978-1983

“Indian Law: An Overview of the Laws You Need to Know,” National Business Institute Teleconference, January 2012

“Indian Water Rights: Relevant Case Law,” Indian Water Law Conference, Arizona State University, October 2011

"Examination of the Phoenix Regional Water Supply for Sustainable Yield and Carrying Capacity" (with Jan C. Bush, Subhrajit Guhathakurta and John L. Keane), Natural Resources Journal, Fall 2006

"Waivers of Sovereign Immunity Key to Contracting with Indian Tribes," Southwest Contractor, 2005

"Doing Business With Our Neighbor: The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community"

"Treatment of Indian Tribes Under Federal Environmental Statutes," Indian Law in Arizona, 1995

"Tribal Economic Developments: Some Legal Ramifications of Organizational Form" (with C. Peter Delgado, Jr.), The Arrow, June 1995

"Plaintiffs' Expanding Concepts of Compensation and the Courts' Responses" (with Janet E. Kornblatt), Gonzaga Law Review, 1994/95

"Groundwater Management in Arizona," presented at the Annual Meeting, Association of American Geographers, April 1988

"Tribal Claims to Arizona's Appropriable Waters," Forum, Fall 1988

"Comment: Private Parties' Rights to Recover Losses from Groundwater Contamination in Arizona," Arizona State Law Journal, 1985

Arizona State University, J.D., cum laude, 1986: Articles Editor, Arizona State Law Journal, 1985-1986

Clark University, Ph.D., 1978

Clark University, A.M., 1975

French

Worcester, Massachusetts