Chief Judge - Anthony Lee

Judge Lee

Judge Lee was appointed as the Chief Judge of the San Manuel Tribal Court in February 2011.

Anthony Lee is a member of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe. He graduated from Cornell University with a concentration in American Indian studies and later received his Juris Doctorate from Cornell Law School.

Anthony previously served as the General Counsel for the White Mountain Apache Tribe. Prior to this, he worked with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation/Foxwoods Resort Casino as in-house counsel. He currently also sits as an Appellate Judge for the Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals. Anthony is admitted to practice law in New York, Connecticut and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court.

Pro Tem Judge - Robert Clinton

Judge Clinton

Robert N. Clinton currently serves as the Foundation Professor of Law at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University and as an Affiliated Faculty member of the ASU American Indian Studies Program. He is also a Faculty Fellow in the Center for Law Science & Innovation. He is also an Affiliated Faculty member of the ASU Center on the Future of War. Professor Clinton was born and raised in the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan where he received a B.A. in political science and attended the University of Chicago Law School, receiving his J.D. After private practice in Chicago with the law firm then known as Devoe, Shadur and Krupp, he joined the faculty of the University of Iowa College of Law in 1973, where he taught until 2000. While at the University of Iowa College of Law, Professor Clinton served as the Wiley B. Rutledge Professor of Law and as a founder and an Affiliated Faculty Member of the American Indian and Native Studies Program of the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts. For the 2001-2003 academic years, Professor Clinton was appointed the Barry Goldwater Chair of American Institutions at Arizona State University.

Appellate Judge – Michael Taylor

Judge Taylor

Judge Taylor was appointed to the Appellate Court in September 2009.

Judge Taylor obtained his law degree from the University of California at Davis in 1969. He is a member of the bars of the Tulalip Tribes, the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Tribes, the Colville Confederated Tribes, California, Washington, New Mexico, Oregon and the Supreme Court of the United States. He sits as an Appellate Judge for the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota.

Judge Taylor resides in Washington State where he is employed as general counsel for the Tulalip Tribes of Washington.

Appellate Judge - Deborah DuBray

Judge DuBray

Judge DuBray was appointed to the Appellate Court in September 2009.

Deborah DuBray is Sicangu Lakota and an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe located in South Dakota. Judge DuBray obtained both her Juris Doctorate and Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of South Dakota in 1993. She is a member of the State Bar of South Dakota and is licensed to practice before the U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota.

Judge DuBray served as a Legislative Aide in the United States Senate prior to entering private practice. She established the DuBray Law Office in 1997 to represent Native clients and tribal interests and continues to represent clients in South Dakota. Judge DuBray served as Chief Judge for other tribal courts over the past six years in North Dakota, Minnesota and Oregon.

Appellate Judge - Job Serebrov

Judge Serebrov

Job Serebrov is currently the director of the Office of Quality Assurance, Arkansas Department of Human Services. Prior to that, he was the principal of The Serebrov Law Firm. His areas of practice and consulting included appeals and agricultural, environmental, natural resource, regulatory, and bioenergy law and policy. Aside from his legal practice, Job served as a law clerk to U.S. Circuit Court Judge Lavenski Smith, held an appointment under Gov. Mike Huckabee as deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and held an appointment under President George W. Bush as a deputy under secretary/deputy general counsel at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, primarily handling environmental and natural resource regulatory matters and served as acting deputy general counsel at American Farm Bureau. 

Alternate Appellate Judge - Anthony Little

Judge Little

Judge Anthony Little is a member of the Sichangu Oyate (Rosebud Sioux Tribe). He is a 1976 graduate of the Arizona State College of Law and is admitted to practice in New Mexico since 1979. He was a staff attorney for Indian Pueblo legal Services, Inc. and Executive Director prior to entering private practice in Albuquerque, NM in 1994. He is admitted to practice in many of the Tribes in New Mexico. He has been a judge for tribes in New Mexico. He was the Chief Magistrate for the Fort Mojave Indian Community, 2007-2009 and is currently the Chief Judge for Ak-Chin Indian Community and an Appellate Judge for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.