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Monday, February 23, 2004
Top lawyers' group diversifies leadership
Four Native American lawyers are now serving in or recently have been named to leadership positions on the Washington State Bar Association -- the largest ever representation of that minority group in leadership roles for the group, which is charged with licensing attorneys in this state.
A spokeswoman for the state bar said the increased Native American presence in leadership roles may help attract more Indian lawyers to the group and help to get questions about the Indian law field included on the state's bar exam -- the test prospective lawyers must pass to practice law in Washington. Only about half of 1 percent of the state bar's more than 27,000 members now identify themselves as Native American.
Native attorneys now in the bar's leadership positions include: Fawn Sharp, lead reservation attorney for her tribe, the Quinault Indian Nation, who serves as governor-at-large on the bar's 14-member Board of Governors; Gabriel Galanda, a Seattle litigator and member of the Nomlaki-Concow Tribes of the Round Valley Indian Confederation in Northern California, who serves as chairman of the bar's Indian Law Section; Robert Anderson, a Minnesota Chippewa Tribe member and director of the University of Washington's Native American Law Center, who is chair-elect of the Indian Law Section; and Leona Colegrove, a member of the Hoopa and Quinault tribes and an in-house lawyer for the Quinaults, who has been named co-chair of the bar's Diversity Committee.
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