2026 Panelists
Ada E. Brown (Choctaw Nation)
U.S. District Judge, Northern District of Texas
Allison Neswood (Navajo)
Senior Staff Attorney, Native American Rights Fund
Ashley Roach
Attorney/Founder, All Rise, PLLC
Ben Fenner
Partner, Patterson Real Bird & Rasmussen LLP (Native Law Group)
Benjamin Varadi
Professor, Vermont Law and Graduate School
Bryan Newland (Bay Mills Indian Community)
Principal, Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, PC
Bryan Warner (Cherokee)
Deputy Principal Chief, Cherokee Nation
Carrie Frias
Legislative Counsel for Tribal Council, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians
Chad Harsha (Cherokee Nation)
Attorney General, Cherokee Nation
Charles Tripp (Cherokee)
Judge/Attorney, Legal Advocates for Indian Country, LLP
Chris Shilling (Choctaw)
Under Secretary, Technology and Innovation, Chickasaw Nation
Christine Frausto
Judge, Tulalip Tribes
Christine Pappas
Professor, East Central University
Clayton Fulton (Cherokee Nation)
Chief of Staff, Indian Health Service
Christy Finsel (Osage)
Executive Director, Oklahoma Native Assets Coalition, Inc.
Conor P. Cleary
Field Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior
Dan Foliart
Composer
David Holt (Osage)
Dean, Oklahoma City University School of Law
Mayor, City of Oklahoma City
Deanna Hartley Kelso (Chickasaw)
District Judge, Chickasaw Nation Judicial Department
Diane Humetewa (Hopi)
United States District Judge for the District of Arizona, Federal Judiciary
Emily Eleftherakis (Cherokee Nation/Delaware Tribe of Indians)
Executive Director, Tribal Sovereignty Institute, Oklahoma City University School of Law
Erick Giles (Mvskoke (Creek) Nation)
Attorney, Drummond Woodsum
Forrest Tahdooahnippah (Comanche)
Chairman, Comanche Nation
Gary Batton (Choctaw)
Chief, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Geoffrey M. Standing Bear (Osage Nation)
Principal Chief, Osage Nation
George A. Mocsary
Professor of Law, University of Wyoming College of Law
Geri Wisner (Muscogee (Creek) Nation)
Deputy Attorney General, Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Grace Carson
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa College of Law
Grace Fox (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma)
Tribal Healthcare Policy Analyst, University of Oklahoma Native Nations Center for Tribal Policy Research
Grace Signorelli-Cassady
Lawyer, Jenner & Block LLP
Gregory D. Smith
Chief Justice, Pawnee Nation Supreme Court
Hallie Bongar White
Dean, National Tribal Trial College – University of Wisconsin
Heather Whiteman Runs Him (Apsaalooke/Crow)
Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Tribal Justice Clinic, Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona
Hershel Gorham (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes)
Lt. Governor, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes
Jacintha Webster
Associate Professor, East Central University
Jacob Keyes (Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma)
Chairman, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma
James T. Meggesto (Onondaga Nation, Ponca Tribe of Nebraska (Honorary))
Partner, Holland & Knight
Jason Giles (Muscogee (Creek))
Executive Director, Indian Gaming Association
Jen Loren (Cherokee Nation)
Senior Director, Cherokee Film, Cherokee Nation Businesses
Jennifer Chadwick (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Community Development Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Jennifer Lamirand (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)
Principal, Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.
Jessica Goodwin (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians)
Victim Services Unit Attorney, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma
Jonodev Chaudhuri (Muscogee (Creek) Nation)
Ambassador, Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Kace Rodwell (Cherokee Nation)
Attorney, Legal Advocates for Indian Country
Kara Bacon (Choctaw)
Attorney, Bacon Law
Kathryn “Kate” E. Fort
Clinic Director, Michigan State University College of Law
Katosha Belvin Nakai (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Sovereignty Attorney, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Kelli Matthews Smalling (Muscogee Creek)
Executive Director, Engage Learning
Kelli Mosteller (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)
Executive Director, First Americans Museum
Kimberly Teehee (Cherokee)
Senior Vice President, Government Relations, Cherokee Nation Businesses
Kirke Kickingbird (Kiowa)
Of Counsel, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker
Kymberly Cravatt (Seminole/Muscogee (Creek)/Chickasaw)
General Counsel – Health, The Chickasaw Nation
Lauren Clark (Chickasaw)
General Counsel, Chickasaw Nation Department of Commerce
Lauren King (Citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation)
United States District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, Federal Judiciary
Lindsay Robertson
Chickasaw Nation Endowed Chair in Native American Law Emeritus, University of Oklahoma College of Law
Lisa Johnson-Billy (Chickasaw Nation)
Legislator, Chickasaw Nation
Liz Brown (Cherokee Nation)
Associate District Judge, State of Oklahoma
Mary Kathryn Nagle (Cherokee Nation)
Attorney, Chaudhuri Law Office PLLC
Matthew L. Morgan (Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and descendant of the Choctaw Nation)
Chickasaw Nation Special Envoy & Chairman of the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association
Michael O’Shea
Professor, Oklahoma City University
Mike Fina
Executive Director, Oklahoma Municipal League
Mitch Holditch
Partner, Patterson Real Bird & Rasmussen LLP
Monroe Nichols IV
Mayor, City of Tulsa
Nikki Borchardt Campbell (Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah and Ute Indian Tribe
Executive Director, National American Indian Court Judges Association
O. Joseph Williams (Mississippi Choctaw)
Attorney / Chief Justice of the Sac & Fox Nation Supreme Court, Williams Law Office
Patti Palmer Ghezzi
Retired
Peary Robertson (Seminole)
Attorney/Tribal Judge, Robertson Law Office, PLLC
Rodina Cave Parnall (Quechua)
Executive Director, American Indian Law Center, Inc.
Ryland Rivas II (Comanche)
Chief Judge-Comanche Tribal Court, Comanche Nation
Samantha Wauls (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe (first descendant))
Associate Attorney, Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians
Sara E. Hill (Cherokee Nation)
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
Sarah Adams (Choctaw)
Founder, Matriarch
Sena Yesslith (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma)
Principal Chief, Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
Seth Pearman (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe)
Partner, Peebles Bergin Schulte & Robinson LLP
Shelby Rowe (Chickasaw)
President/Founder, Lhakoffi, LLC
Stacy Leeds (Cherokee Nation)
Willard H. Pedrick Dean and Regents Professor, Arizona State University
Stephen Greetham
Principal/Attorney, Greetham Law, P.L.L.C.
Stephen Pevar
Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Sunshine S. Sykes
United States District Judge, United States District Court
Tana Fitzpatrick (Crow)
Associate Vice President of Tribal Relations, University of Oklahoma
Telly Meier
Partner, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP
Terri Parton (Wichita and Affiliated Tribes)
Tribal Advisor | Project Manager, Blue Stone Strategy Partners
Tia Ebarb Matt (Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb)
Clinical Professor of Law, Oklahoma City University School of Law
Tiffani Armendariz
Director of Legal Empowerment, Oklahoma Access to Justice Foundation
Torivio Fodder (Cherokee Nation)
Manager, Indigenous Governance Program, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona
Traci L. Morris (Chickasaw Nation)
Executive Director & Research Professor, American Indian Policy Institute at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
Wena Supernaw (Quapaw Nation)
Business Committee Chair, Quapaw Nation
William H. Kirkland III (Navajo)
Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior
William R. Norman (Muscogee (Creek) Nation)
Managing Partner, Oklahoma Office, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP
Wilson Pipestem (Otoe-Missouria Tribe, Osage Headright Holder)
Founding Partner, Pipestem Law