Eric D. Eberhard, Program Co-
Chair, is a partner with Dorsey
& Whitney LLP in the Indian and
Gaming Law practice group in the
Seattle office. Since 1995, he has
focused his practice in the areas of
Federal Indian law, Environment
and Natural Resources, Gaming
and legislation.
J.D. Williams, Program Co-
Chair, is managing attorney for
the Office of Legal Counsel of the Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation in
northeastern Oregon. In addition
to supervising four other attorneys
and overseeing attorney contracts,
he represents the Tribes in a wide
variety of matters including energy
development and natural resources.
Karen J. Atkinson is a member of
the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara
Nation and a partner at Dorsey &
Whitney LLP where her practice
focuses on government relations,
energy development, and natural
resource management issues.
Before joining the firm she served
as Deputy Director of the National
Park Service and Senior Counsel
to the Senate Committee on Indian
Affairs.
Howard A. Belodoff is Associate
Director of Idaho Legal Aid
Services, Inc. in Boise. He
represents individual Indian
allottees on issues involving their
trust land concerning agricultural
leases, trespass claims, rights-ofway
negotiations involving
electrical transmission lines and
natural gas pipelines, condemnation,
Privacy Act and breach of
trust claims against the United
States.
James Deason concentrates his
practice at Cable Huston
Benedict Haagensen & Lloyd,
LLP on assisting Oregon municipalities,
People’s Utility Districts
and other local governments with
matters relating to energy and
telecommunications law.
Doug Goe is a partner at Orrick
Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.
Mr. Goe is bond counsel to many
Oregon and Washington state
departments, commissions and
boards and numerous Oregon
counties and cities.
Mark A. Jarboe is a partner in the
Minneapolis office of Dorsey &
Whitney LLP and head of the
firm’s Indian Law Practice Group,
as well as Chairman of their
Indian & Gaming Law Department.
He was bond counsel on the
first tribal tax-exempt bond
financing in the nation under the
Indian Tribal Government Tax
Status Act.
John A. Kilpatrick, Mundy &
Associates, has over 20 years
experience in real estate and
business development, statistical
and financial analysis, consulting,
teaching and corporate finance
with such corporations as Dean
Witter Morgan Stanley, the
University of South Carolina and
the Shumaker Company. He is a
frequent author and contributing
consultant to economic and real
estate publications.
David Lester is Executive
Director of the Council of Energy
Resource Tribes, a group
composed of Indian Tribes that
collectively represent more than
half of all Indians residing on
Reservations today.
The Hon. Lynda M. Lovejoy
serves as District 4 Chairwoman
of the New Mexico Public
Regulation Commission. She is a
former New Mexico State
Representative, and an active
citizen of the Navajo Nation. In
2000, she was selected as one of
New Mexico’s top 100 “Power
Brokers” by NM Business
Weekly.
Gillian Mittelstaedt is a Policy
Analyst and Sustainable Development
Advocate who develops
environmental policies and
programs for American Indian
tribes, including the Tulalip
Tribes in Washington. In 1999,
she authored a national report on
the use of environmental impact
assessment by American Indians
and Alaska Natives. She has
served as a planning commissioner
for the City of Mill Creek,
Snohomish County and the City of
Issaquah.
Mary C. Morton advises FERC
Commissioner Nora Mead
Brownell on a wide range of
electricity, natural gas and
hydropower issues. Prior to
joining the commissioner’s staff,
Ms. Morton worked in FERC’s
Office of the General Counsel on
various rate matters, including the
California electricity crisis.
Margaret M. Schaff has 12 years
experience as an attorney in the
utility, oil and gas industries, and
for tribal governments. Previously
she was with the Office of General
Counsel at Western Area Power
Administration as a power
marketing attorney and as Chief
Lands Attorney.
Thomas P. Schlosser is a director
in the Seattle office of Morisset,
Schlosser, Homer, Jozwiak &
McGaw, where he specializes in
federal litigation, natural resource
and Indian tribal property issues.
Mr. Schlosser has litigated tribal
cases concerning timber, water,
energy, fisheries and federal
breach of trust. He is an officer
and founding member of the
Indian Law Section of the
Washington State Bar.
Wayne Shammel is Tribal
Attorney for the Cow Creek Band
of the Umpqua Indian Tribe and
the Umpqua Indian Development
Corporation in Roseburg, Oregon.
This includes the Umpqua Indian
Utility Cooperative, the first utility
in the Northwest both owned and
operated by an Indian tribe.
Christopher T. Stearns, a Navajo,
is a partner with Hobbs, Straus,
Dean & Walker, LLP. He concentrates
his practice in the areas of
energy, health care, self-determination
and self-governance,
education, campaign and election
law, and legislative affairs.
Mr. Stearns has served as the U.S.
Department of Energy’s Director
of Indian Affairs, and as the
Navajo & Gallup Director for the
Richardson for Governor 2002
campaigns.
Sonya M. Tetnowski serves as the
Public & Tribal Affairs Manager
in the Power Business Line (PBL)
of the Bonneville Power Administration
(BPA). She is responsible
for PBL public relations and
public involvement, internal
communications, economic
development and tribal utility
customers. |
