Amanda L. White Eagle, with nearly twenty years of tribal law experience, provided advice and counsel to the Ho-Chunk Nation government. She previously served as a judicial officer (an Interim Chief Judge and Associate Judge), as well as the tribe’s Attorney General and Executive Director for the Ho-Chunk Nation Department of Justice. She is admitted to the Ho-Chunk Bar Association, the State Bar of Wisconsin, the United States Supreme Court Bar, and the Federal Bar Association. Additionally, she serves as a tribal court judge or justice, to tribal governments throughout the United States, including the Wampanoag Judiciary, Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals, Santee Sioux Nation Judiciary, and Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. She served as the NYU-Yale American Indian Sovereignty Project Clinical Fellow. Presently, she is the Director of the Great Lakes Indigenous Law Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with liberal arts degrees (a B.A. in Anthropology and French as well as a Certificate in American Indian Studies). She attended the University of Wisconsin Law School, graduating with a juris doctor degree. 

Kelly Jackson is a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and the Founder/CEO and Owner of InnoNative Solutions, LLC, a 100% Native Women–owned consulting firm based in Madison, Wisconsin, providing strategic planning, diversity, equity and inclusion training, and advisory services to corporate, government, and tribal organizations. A nationally recognized leader in tribal historic preservation, she helped establish the Lac du Flambeau Tribal Historic Preservation Office and founded the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers. She served by gubernatorial appointment on the Wisconsin State Historic Preservation Review Board and was appointed by First Lady Laura Bush to the advisory forum of the White House’s Preserve America Initiative. She is also co-founder of the Spirit of a Woman nonprofit and its Indigenous Girls Rock Camp, which empowers young Indigenous women through leadership and the arts. Above all, Kelly is a dedicated mother and grandmother whose work centers on advancing women, preserving Native culture, and creating opportunity across Indian Country.

Samantha C. Skenandore is a Founding Partner of Skenandore Wilson LLP.  With over 21 years of legal experience, Samantha has been working with tribal governments and tribal enterprises to build governmental and economic infrastructures across Indian Country.  Through her depth and breadth of experience working with tribal nations, Samantha provides highly effective general and special counsel services to achieve solutions for her tribal clients.  Samantha is an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and is a descendant of the Oneida Nation.  Samantha is a member of the State Bar of Wisconsin, the State Bar of Arizona, and is licensed to practice law in numerous tribal and federal jurisdictions.

Samantha has the rare ability to understand the intersection of business and legal issues facing tribes, which enables her to craft cost-effective and practical solutions for her clients from various tribal nations.  Samantha’s practice of federal Indian law and tribal law includes matters involving tribal governance, corporate governance, governmental affairs, labor and employment issues, corporate transactions, real estate, cultural resources, Indian water rights settlements, and litigation.  She actively works to break down information silos when encountered.  Her extensive multijurisdictional practice and leadership of Indian Law and Policy practices in Biglaw for over 15 years resulting in successful outcomes for clients including tribes, tribal organizations, tribally-owned companies of every variety and tribal member-owned businesses.

Leveraging her business and legal knowledge with her network of contacts, Samantha advances the corporate governance and legal goals of many types of clients.  Samantha brings a proven approach to tribal corporate affairs, helping clients observe and adhere to organizational framework and best practices, while advising on complex human resources needs through transition, reorganization and compliance processes.  She has specifically advised clients on scoping job descriptions, independent contractor agreements, disciplinary actions, successful management of grievances, drafting employment handbooks and policies, analyzing federal labor law applicability, and negotiating top management hires and separation agreements.  Her clients are often participants in the Small Business Administration 8(a) Program, needing corporate retreats, corporate entity formation and reorganization, financing, mergers & acquisitions, Tribal Code development, minority or woman-owned certifications, labor relations, complex commercial real estate transactions, and tribal economic development initiatives.  Samantha represents clients in federal-tribal consultations and represents clients before members of Congress, congressional committees and agencies through federal lobbying services.