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MAIBA thanks former President, George Soule, for his years of leadership.

2008-2010 Officers

 
  President - Jason Stark
Vice-President - Philomena Matus
Treasurer - Shauna Coons
Secretary - Jill Kehaulani Powers Esch
 
     
  Board of Directors  
 

Jennifer Beck-Brown

Shauna Coons

Angel Daher

Jodi Drews

Jill Kehaulani Powers Esch

Judge Anne McKeig

Reid Raymond

Jason Stark

Eileen Strejc

Jody Tallbear
Sarah Wheelock

 
 

 

   

Jason Stark is MAIBA's president and a policy analyst for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission in Wisconsin.  Jason is a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa and can be reached at jstark@glifwc.org.

 

 

Philomena Matus is MAIBA's vice president and a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.  She is an attorney and a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Kathleen Mottl of Buffalo, Minnesota and can be reached at babiwash@gmail.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shauna Coons, is MAIBA's treasurer and a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles.  She is an attorney

with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and tournament co-chair for the 13th Annual MAIBA Scholarship Golf Tournament.  She can be reached at shaunac@millelacsojibwe.nsn.us .

 

 

 

 

Jill Kehaulani Powers Esch is MAIBA's secretary and a Native Hawaiian. Jill is an attorney with Thibodeau, Johnson & Feriancek PLLP, of Duluth, and can be contacted at jke@trialgroupnorth.com.

 

 

 

 

 
     
     
     
     
 
  Angel Daher is a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and an attorney at the Indian Child Welfare Law Center.  Angel can be contacted at angel@icwlc.org.
 
   
     
 
  Jodi Drews is a member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa. Jodi is an attorney with the Hennepin County Public Defender's Office, and can be contacted at jodi.drews@co.hennepin.mn.us.
 
     
 
Judge Anne McKeig is a member of the White Earth Nation.  She is a District Court Judge with the 4th District, Hennepin County and is MAIBA'S third native District Court Judge.
     
 
     
 
  Reid Raymond is a member of the Rosebud Sioux of South Dakota.  Reid is an attorney with the Hennepin County Attorney's Office and can be contacted at reid.raymond@co.hennepin.mn.us.
 
 
Lenor Scheffler is a member of the Lower Sioux Dakota Community.  She is a partner at Best & Flanagan and can be contacted at lscheffler@bestlaw.com.
     
 
   

Eileen Strejc is a member of the

White Earth Nation and is as an attorney for the City of Minneapolis.  Eileen can be contacted at eileen.strejc@ci.minneapolis.mn.us.

 
     
 
  Jody Tallbearis a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma.  She is the MAIBA law student representative and is attending Hamline University School of Law.
 
     
     
     
 
 

 

 

   

 

   
 
 

 

 

 
     
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