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Students for Fair Admissions and Indian College Admissions


Total Credits: 1 CLE

Average Rating:
   1
Categories:
Indian Law
Faculty:
Doreen Nanibaa McPaul |  Rodina Cave Parnall |  HARRISON William RICE |  ALEXANDER M MALLORY
Format:
Audio and Video
Original Program Date:
Feb 26, 2025


Description

Mr. Mallory and Ms. Parnall will provide practitioners and institutions of higher education with information about the SFFA Decision’s impact on principles of federal Indian law and explain why those institutions are not precluded from considering an applicant’s status as Indian because such a classification is political and not an impermissible racial classification.

Faculty:
Alexander Mallory, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Rodina Cave Parnell, Director of the Pre-Law Summer Institute, American Indian Law Center, Inc.

Chairpersons
Doreen N. McPaul, President, Tribal In-House Counsel Association
Harrison Rice, Assistant Attorney General, Tohono O'odham Nation
 

Handouts

Faculty

Doreen Nanibaa McPaul Related Seminars and Products



is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. She is a 1995 graduate of Princeton University and earned her Juris Doctorate in 2001 from the Arizona State University College of Law, where she also received a Certificate in Federal Indian Law and served as a staff writer for the ASU Law Journal. After law school, Ms. McPaul clerked at the Arizona Court of Appeals for the Honorable Jefferson L. Lankford (retired). She has diverse experience serving as a tribal court staff attorney, as an associate attorney at the Nordhaus Law Firm in Albuquerque, and as a visiting clinical law professor and Interim Director of the Indian Legal Clinic at ASU. Since 2008, Ms. McPaul has worked as an in-house tribal attorney for several Arizona tribes, including a 4-year appointment as the Navajo Nation Attorney General. She currently serves as the Deputy Attorney General for the White Mountain Apache Tribe. Ms. McPaul has over 20 years of experience practicing Indian law, and is admitted to practice law in Arizona and New Mexico, as well as before several tribal and federal courts. Ms. McPaul is active in the State Bar and Indian legal community. She serves on the State Bar of Arizona Board of Governors and is currently the Vice President of the State Bar. Ms. McPaul is a founding board member of the Tribal In-House Counsel Association and served as TICA’s President for a decade. She also serves on the Board of the American Indian Law Center and was elected to membership in The American Law Institute in 2021. Most importantly, Ms. McPaul is a proud military spouse and mom. She is married to SFC Mark McPaul (retired) and they have three sons.


Rodina Cave Parnall Related Seminars and Products


Rodina Cave Parnall (Quechua) is the Executive Director of the American Indian Law Center, Inc. (AILC), which conducts the Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians and Alaska Natives (PLSI) and administers the Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals (SWITCA). Rodina served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior. Before that, she practiced law in New Mexico and Arizona representing Indian tribes and tribal entities in legal and administrative proceedings. Previously, Rodina served as an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law and associate judge on SWITCA. Rodina clerked for the Honorable William C. Canby, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.



ALEXANDER M MALLORY Related Seminars and Products


Alexander Mallory (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) is a Litigation Associate at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. Before this, Alexander clerked for the Honorable Diane J. Humetewa at the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and for the Honorable Daniel H. Weiss at the U.S. Immigration Court through the U.S. Department of Justice Honors Program. He also clerked for the Honorable Paul Nihoul at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. In his free time, Alexander enjoys traveling and has lived abroad in Europe and the Middle East.


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Justin R

"i felt like only the first half actually provided any meaningful information and then it was 30 minutes of trying to fill the time. "