Alma Buena (Otomi) is a law clerk for the Honorable David H. Urias at the Federal District Court for the District of New Mexico. Prior to her clerkship, she gained experience at Barnhouse Keegan Solimon & West, a law firm in Albuquerque focused on serving Native communities, tribal, and business interests. Alma holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of New Mexico School of Law. She has been involved with the Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians and Alaska Natives (PLSI) since 2020, initially as a student and later as a tutor, and currently serves on the PLSI Judicial Clerkship Committee.

Jens Wesley Camp is a recognized descendant of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma.  Jens is closely connected to his family in Indian country and has been deeply inspired by their fight for environmental protection and the civil rights of Tribal Nations and their communities.  He hopes to continue his family’s legacy by serving Indian country as an attorney.

Jens has dedicated himself to serving Tribal communities with his legal career since starting law school at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU Law).  Over his three years at ASU Law, he worked with several local Tribal Nations, such as the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, and national organizations dedicated to serving Tribal communities—primarily, through a summer clerkship with the Native American Rights Fund.  During his last year of law school, he exhibited this dedication to advocating on behalf of Tribal communities at the Indian Legal Clinic at ASU Law, where he logged over 500 hours on top of his other studies.  His commitment to the Indian Legal Clinic and the Tribal communities it serves led to him winning the International Academy of Trial Lawyers Award, recognizing an outstanding student in trial advocacy and clinical work.

After graduating law school, Jens served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable David B. Gass at the Arizona Court of Appeals for a one-year term, where he worked on issues affecting Tribal communities in Arizona.  In June of 2022, Jens joined Hobbs Straus, where he continues to serve Indian country.

In his free time, Jens enjoys hiking, camping, fishing, and practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Rodina Cave Parnall (Quechua) is the Executive Director of the American Indian Law Center, Inc.  

Rodina served, by Presidential appointment, as Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs in the 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, in environmental matters, and on several large breach-of-trust cases in federal courts.  In addition to her Indian law practice, she is experienced in complex litigation and appeals in federal and state courts.

Rodina has been an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law and an Associate Judge on the Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals (SWITCA).  In 2014, she received the New Mexico State Bar Indian Law Section Outstanding Achievement Award.  She graduated in 2001 from the Arizona State University College of Law with a Certificate in Indian Law and the Outstanding Law Graduate Award for 2001.  She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Rodina clerked for the Honorable William C. Canby, Jr. with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Tim Devine is an associate attorney in our Portland, Oregon office. He is a first-generation descendant of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. Tim joined Hobbs Straus as an associate in 2024. He previously served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Chief Judge Brian M. Morris, United States District Court for the District of Montana.

Tim received his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School. While attending law school, Tim served a term as the elected Public Relations Director of the National Native American Law Students Association. During his law school summers, Tim served as a summer law clerk at Hobbs Straus and as a teaching assistant for the American Indian Law Center’s Pre-Law Summer Institute. Prior to law school, Tim worked in business-to-business communications, in electoral politics, and in the non-profit sector. He also worked as a barista and at an ice cream parlor. He holds a B.A. in History from Harvard College. Tim’s hobbies include playing guitar, learning about history, and hiking.

Joaquin R. Gallegos (Jicarilla Apache Nation/Pueblo of Santa Ana) recently served as a law clerk to Judge Allison H. Eid on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Previously, Joaquin served as a legislative staff attorney to the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. He has also served as a legal fellow to former Senator Tom Udall on the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and as a policy fellow to former Senator Byron Dorgan at the Aspen Institute. Joaquin graduated from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and the University of Colorado Denver.

Kateri Eisenberg is a staff attorney at the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Before becoming a staff attorney, she clerked for now-Chief Justice Thomson on the New Mexico Supreme Court, where she developed a love for working for the judiciary. 

Kateri graduated from University of New Mexico School of Law in 2021, cum laude, and with clinical honors. While in law school, she tutored several classes, worked on the Natural Resources Journal, and served her law school community as NALSA Vice President. Kateri attended PLSI in 2018 and was a teaching assistant for PLSI Advocacy in 2019.

Lydia Locklear is a citizen of the Lumbee Tribe and currently serves as the Deputy Tribal Attorney for the Catawba Nation. Lydia earned her Juris Doctorate with a Certificate in Indigenous Law from Michigan State University College of Law. After graduating, Lydia served tribes at the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs before clerking for the Honorable Anita Earls of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Lydia joined the PLSI Clerkship Committee in 2019 and currently serves as Chair of the Committee. 

Alexander Mallory (Hakikóx Walu Piga—“makes his way”) (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) is an 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 Department of Justice Honors Program.  He also clerked for the Honorable Paul Nihoul at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.  He is a 2016 PLSI alumnus.

Doreen N. McPaul (PLSI 1998/TA 1999)  is Navajo (Kinyaa’áanii) from Chinle, Arizona. She is a graduate of Princeton University and earned her Juris Doctorate from Arizona State University College of Law. Ms. McPaul clerked at the Arizona Court of Appeals and her work experience includes serving as a tribal court staff attorney, as an associate attorney at a boutique Indian law firm, and as a visiting clinical law professor/Interim Indian Legal Clinic Director. Since 2008, Ms. McPaul has worked as an in-house tribal attorney for several Arizona tribes including serving a term as the Navajo Nation Attorney General. Ms. McPaul currently serves as an Assistant Legislative Attorney for the Tohono O’odham Nation.

Ms. McPaul is a founding board member and President of the Tribal In-House Counsel Association. She also currently serves as the Vice President of  the State Bar of Arizona’s Board of Governors, as well as on the Board of Directors for the American Indian Law Center. She 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.

Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis was appointed to the Washington State Supreme Court by Governor Jay Inslee in December 2019 and took the oath of office on January 6, 2020. Justice Montoya-Lewis is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Isleta and a descendant of the Pueblo of Laguna, two federally recognized tribes in New Mexico. She is the first enrolled member of any tribe to sit on a state supreme court in the U.S. and the second Native American to sit on a state supreme court. She is also of Jewish descent.

Prior to becoming an Associate Justice, she served as a Superior Court judge for Whatcom County for five years, where she heard criminal and civil trials and presided over the Whatcom County Therapeutic Drug Court. In the 15 years prior to her work on the Superior Court, she served as a tribal court judge for multiple tribes in the Pacific Northwest and the Southwest. She served as Chief Judge for the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, the Nooksack Indian Tribe, and the Lummi Nation. In addition to her work as a tribal court judge, she was a tenured Associate Professor at Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College where she taught law-related courses and courses on cultural identity development. She has continued to use her teaching skills as a jurist, teaching a wide variety of audiences including judges, social workers, lawyers, and advocates on implicit bias, the Indian Child Welfare Act, and best practices in child welfare and domestic violence cases. Justice Montoya-Lewis graduated with her BA degree from the University of New Mexico in 1992 and completed her law degree and Master of Social Work degree at the University of Washington in 1995 and 1996 respectively.

Roshanna K. Toya is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Isleta where she was born, raised, and resides today. Roshanna earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of New Mexico. After graduating law school Roshanna went on to clerk for the New Mexico Court of Appeals and the United States District Court, District of New Mexico, where she was able to work closely with judges to research, analyze and write legal memoranda spanning diverse questions of civil and criminal law. Roshanna’s clerkships were formative experiences in her legal career and created a solid foundation for her current plaintiff’s civil practice, criminal defense, and representing tribes and tribal entities.

Roshanna is also familiar with the internal workings of tribal governments as Roshanna has served her Pueblo as an associate justice for the Isleta Pueblo Appellate Court since 2013. She now serves the Pueblo as the Chief Justice of the Appellate Court. There she presides over cases related to probate, domestic relations, criminal law, employment law, and any other types of disputes that are appealed from the tribal court.

Prior to pursuing a career in law, Roshanna practiced as a social worker, focused on providing direct clinical services to American Indian youth incarcerated in state prisons, and assisting families of court-involved youth to secure community based behavioral health services. Roshanna has also been active for many years in making funding recommendations on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice for grants related to tribal court systems, tribal social services, community oriented policing programs, and more.

Roshanna serves as a member of the PLSI’s Judicial Clerkship Committee and serves as a member of the New Mexico Board of Bar Examiners.