About Us

Education

1982

University of Southwestern Louisiana, B.A. 1982

1986

Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., Juris Doctor

Born in Janesville, Wisconsin and became a resident of Fremont County, Wyoming in 1991

Publications and Presentations

Wind River Litigation: “Decades In The Making”, CLE International, May 2, 2013

Oil and Gas Development on the Wind River Reservation: Permitting and Regulatory Jurisdiction Matters, published in Oil and Gas and Other Resources of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming Geological Association (1993)

Oil and Gas Development on the Wind River Reservation: Permitting and Regulatory Jurisdiction Matters, published in Oil and Gas and Other Resources of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming Geological Association (1993)

An Introduction To Coalbed Gas Development On Indian Lands: Development Potential Ownership Rights, and Operational Issues, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, Institute On Coalbed Gas Development (1992)

University of Wyoming Big Horn Symposium (2014)

Perspectives of Legal Requirements, Developing Effective Working Relationships With Indian Tribes and Organization, Larry D. Keown & Associates, Thermopolis, WY (2001)

Indian Child Welfare Act – Legal Issues, National Indian Preservation Conference, Phoenix, AZ, (1995)

Transactions Involving Tribal Lands, 2nd Annual ABA Section on Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law Fall Meeting, San Antonio, TX (1994)

Permitting and Regulatory Jurisdiction, Wyoming Geological Association 50th Anniversary Field Conference, Casper, WY (1993)

High School and University of Wyoming moot court judge.

Reported Cases

In re General Adjudication of all Rights to Use Water in the Big Horn River System, 803 P .2d 61 (Big Horn II), 835 P.2d 273 (Big Horn Ill), 899 P.2d 848 (Big Horn V), 48 P.3d 1040 (Big Horn VI), 85 P.2d 981 (Big Horn VII).

Shoshone Indian Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyo. v. United States, 51 Fed. Cl. 60, 61 (200 I)

Wyoming Dept. Of Revenue v. Calhoun, 981 P.2d 480 (Wyo. 1999).

E.F. W v. St. Stephen’s Indian High School, 264 F.3d 1297 (10th Cir. 2001), and 51 F.Supp.2d 1217 (D.Wyo. 1999).

Ordinance 59 Ass’n v. U.S.Dept. of Interior Secretary, 163 F .3d 1150 ( 10th Cir. 1998)( civil rights litigation), and 970 F.Supp. 914 (D.Wyo. 1997).

Salinas v. LeMere, 131 Cal.App.4th 1059 (Ct.App. 4th Dist. 2005)

Eastern Shoshone Tribe v. Northern Arapaho Tribe, 926 F.Supp. 1024 (D.Wyo. 1996).