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RELEASE AWARD ANNOUNCEMENT
AndersonTuell,
LLP is pleased to announce that our co-founder, Loretta A. Tuell
has been chosen to receive the American Bar Association (ABA) -
Margaret Brent Award for 2009. She is among five distinguished attorneys
to be awarded: Sunday, August 2, 2009 at the Annual ABA Meeting
to be held at the Fairmont Chicago (Imperial Ballroom) in Chicago,
IL.
The
Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award recognizes the
accomplishment of women lawyers who excel in their field and have
paved the way to success for other women lawyers. Previous winners
of this award include Justice Sandra Day OConnor, Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno. Loretta is
the first Native American woman to be recognized in the awards
almost 20-year history. Her award was based on her mentorship of
Native American women attorneys, public service at the United States
Senate and the Department of Interior, private law practice and
leadership with non-profit entities. This is truly historic!
Loretta
A. Tuell is a member of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho and a descendant
of the Chief Joseph Band of Wallowa, Oregon. She grew up on the
Nez Perce reservation and graduated from Washington State University
and UCLA School of Law. She attended the Senior Executive Program
at the JFK School of Government. She has served as Adjunct Faculty
at American University for the Washington Internships for Native
Students (WINS) program. She is a partner at AndersonTuell, LLP
which is a 100% Indian-owned law firm in Washington D.C. and among
the first law firms in the nations capital with a Native American
woman as a founding partner.
Ms.
Tuell practices Federal Indian law and represents American Indian
Tribal Government clients before the Congress, the court and regulatory
agencies. She has experience in dealing with national legal and
policy issues in Indian Country from three different perspectives:
the Congress, the Administration and the private sector. She has
eight years of experience with the Department of the Interior
and the United States Senate serving as a senior advisor on legislative
and administrative matters affecting Indian tribes. She has served
as Counsel on the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to Senator
Daniel K. Inouye, Counselor to the Assistant of Secretary of Indian
Affairs, and Director of the Office of American Indian Trust. For
the last eight years she has served as legal counsel to a nationwide
base of American Indian Tribes.
She
has served as co-chair of the Joint Federal-Tribal Task Force in
the development of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Consultation Policy,
appointee to the Federal Task Force for Native Hawaiians, Board
Member for the National Native American Bar Association, and Board
Member of National Native American Law Students Association.
Since 1998, Ms. Tuell serves on the Board of Trustees of the United
National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) where she mentors, among others,
young Native American women. In 2008, she was featured in the ABA
publication of Dear Sisters, Dear Daughters, Strategies for Success
from Multicultural Woman Attorneys.
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