Rodina Cave Parnall

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.