Tim Evans currently serves as Deputy General Counsel for the Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation, located on the San Manuel Reservation near Highland, California. In that role, Tim oversees the day-to-day operations of the Nation’s Legal Department, works with Tribal leadership and the Chief Legal and Compliance Officer on overall legal strategy, and provides advice and counsel on significant projects for the Nation. He joined the Legal Department in 2019 as a Managing Attorney, then served as Vice President, Associate General Counsel-Government before taking over as Deputy General Counsel. In addition to management of in-house attorneys for the effective representation of the Nation, Tim’s current strategic and substantive legal projects run the gamut from governance structuring to asset acquisition to intertribal work on the future of gaming in California, and nearly everything in between. Prior to joining San Manuel, Tim practiced Native American law for over 15 years at a large national law firm in their Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. offices, representing tribes across the country. Tim received his J.D. degree from Cornell Law School, an M.P.A. degree from Princeton University and an A.B. degree from Harvard College.  He is a member of the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe of North Carolina.

Heather Whiteman Runs Him, is a citizen of the Apsaalooke/Crow Nation. She is the Director of the Tribal Justice Clinic and Associate Clinical Professor at University of Arizona Rogers College of Law where she also teaches courses on tribal water rights, tribal courts, and tribal law. Before joining the Arizona Law faculty, Heather’s legal practice centered on meaningful roles in public interest and rights protection advocating for the rights of Indigenous Peoples to water, land, and self-determination: working as an attorney at the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, Colorado, and as in-house attorney for her own Tribe. She also worked as an assistant public defender for the State of New Mexico. Her recent service initiatives include leadership of the UA Native Faculty organization, serving on the Arizona Civil Rights Advisory Committee, serving as a board member of the Agua Caliente Water Authority, sitting as a judge on the Southwestern Intertribal Court of Appeals, and representing North America on the Indigenous Coordinating Body on Enhanced United Nations Participation for Indigenous Peoples.

Anne Lucke is the Library Director of the National Indian Law Library (NILL), based in Boulder, Colorado. NILL is a unique law library dedicated to law of Tribal Nations, serving both the Native American Rights Fund and the public. Anne leads NILL’s work providing research assistance and ensuring public access to tribal law through the Tribal Law Gateway. She also helps produce and maintain the immensely popular Indian Law Bulletins, which provides regular updates on developments in Indian law. As Library Director, Anne supports NARF’s mission to defend and advance the legal rights of Tribal Nations while expanding reliable access to Indian law resources for practitioners, scholars, and the public.

Amber Kennedy Madole is the Law Librarian for Research Services and Indigenous Law and Policy and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at the USC Gould School of Law. In these roles, she teaches legal research courses and assists faculty and students with their research endeavors. At USC Law, Madole serves as the Faculty Advisor to the Native American Law Students Association (NALLSA), studies tribal law issues, and coordinates lectures on Indigenous Law and Policy with the Center for Law, History, and Culture (CHLC). Madole earned both her J.D. and MLIS degrees from UCLA and her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. While at UCLA School of Law, she served as an editor of the Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance. She is active in several national organizations, including AALL’s Native Peoples Law Caucus (NPLC), where she currently serves as chair, and AALL’s Spectrum Article of the Year Jury. She is also a member of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL), where she has served on the executive board, chaired the Speakers Committee for the annual SCALL Institute and Grants Committee, and currently co-chairs the Grants Committee and the 54th SCALL Institute Speakers’ Committee. Dedicated to the study of Indigenous law and policy issues, Madole is the author of California Tribal Law in Henke’s California Law Guide. Her joint proposal advocating for the inclusion of tribal codes in the Bluebook was adopted as Bluebook Rule 22, “The Law of Tribal Nations,” in the 22nd edition. This rule provides long-overdue guidance on citing tribal constitutions, cases, and codes, and U.S. treaties with Tribal Nations. Madole’s article “Law Librarians for Indigenous-Inclusive Citation” received the 2024 AALL Spectrum Article of the Year Award. In 2024, she co-authored “Integrating Tribal Law into the Legal Research and Writing Curriculum: Benefits, Challenges, and Strategies,” published in Perspectives. The piece received both the 2025 ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award and the 2025 Paul Gatz RIPS-SIS Publication Award from AALL. In 2025, Madole received the Early Career Teaching and Public Service Award from the AALS Indian Nations and Indigenous Peoples Section. She is a citizen of the Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe and a member of the State Bar of California.

Lauren van Schilfgaarde (Cochiti Pueblo) is an Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA Law. Her research focuses on Tribal sovereignty and federal Indian law. She previously was the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Tribal Legal Development Clinic Director at UCLA Law wherein she supervised live-client projects concerning tribal governance and justice systems, ethics, cultural resource protection, voting, child welfare, and more. She received her undergraduate degree at Colorado College and her law degree from UCLA Law. Lauren previously served as the Tribal Law Specialist at the Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI) in West Hollywood, California, and as a law clerk for the Native American Rights Fund and Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. She currently serves as co-chair for the Native American Concerns Committee of the American Bar Association and as a board member of the Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation, Pukúu Cultural Community Services, and the AALS Section on Indian Nations & Indigenous Peoples.

Robin Willscheidt is an attorney and scholar whose work sits at the intersection of law, cultural heritage, public lands, and Indigenous rights. She is a corporate associate at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where she maintains an active pro bono practice supporting artists and nonprofit organizations, and an inaugural Senior Fellow at the Berkeley Art, Law, and Finance Project. Robin’s research focuses on the legal frameworks governing cultural landscapes, cultural patrimony, and federal land management. She has published widely on topics including the 1906 Antiquities Act, cultural patrimony in bankruptcy, federal arts policy, and eminent domain in the context of climate change. Her work has been recognized by the Beverly Hills Bar Association’s Rule of Law Grand Prize and the Southern California Law Review Scribes Award for legal writing. Robin has held legal and research roles with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Department of State, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and has on-the-ground experience in archaeological and heritage management projects in the United States and abroad. She holds a J.D. from USC Gould School of Law and a B.A. from Stanford University.

Cornell H. Winston is the Law Librarian / Records Center Supervisor for the United States Attorney’s Office, Central District of California. He has been at the US Attorney’s Office for over 24 years. His office, one of the largest in the United States, has almost 230 attorneys. Cornell has over 36 years of library experience working at a law school (Whittier College School of Law) and two law firms (Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe) in Los Angeles. Cornell is the former chair of the Library Advisory Group for the United States Attorney Offices which provide library support for the US Attorney’s Office’s that don’t have professional librarians. He has taught legal research classes for many years for Department of Justice support staff at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina. Cornell is active in the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), and is the immediate past president of AALL. He formerly served as Treasurer of the Association (2019–2022), having served on the AALL Executive Board (2006–2009), various AALL committees, and is a former chair of the Black Caucus (2011–2012).  Cornell is also a member SCALL, where he served on several committees, and was SCALL President (2001–2002).