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Background, Experience and Practice Areas

Patricia Paul's experience is extensive. This page captures some of her background, experience and practice areas of law.

Traditional Methods of Conflict Resolution

PUBLICATIONS

"Wisdom for the Future from Lessons of the Past, Native American Family Mediation" ACResolution, Washington, DC, Winter 2002. A quarterly magazine of the Association for Conflict Resolution.

Book review, The Ethnic Conflict Resolution Digest, INCORE, Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity. The University of Ulster, United Nations Universiy, Northern Ireland. P. Huth, Standing Your Ground. Vol 2, Issue 1, p 6,February 1999.

EDUCATION

Certified mediator, Center for Collaborative Planning and Community Development, Montpelier, Vermont, course credit at Antioch University, Seattle, Washington. 1983.

LECTURES

Panelist, Mediating Across Cultures. 2005 National ECR Conference, U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. Tuscon, Arizona, May 2005.

Traditional Dispute Resolution. Guest lecturer, Legal Studies Department in a course called The Legalization of the American Indian. University of Massachusett at Amherst. March 11, 1999.

Traditional Dispute Resolution, a Brown Bag Lunch lecture, at Harvard University, Read House, March 10, 1999. Her lecture was on the traditional dispute resolution of the Northwest Washington area tribes and women's roles in traditional dispute resolution.

Native Women's Roles in Traditional Native American Dispute Resolution, Harvard Law School in course titled, Tribal Legal Practices. March 1999.

Processos Tradicionais Para A Resolucao Das Disputas, Universidade de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil. Seminar lecture as a visiting professor. September 1999. Lectures translated from English into Brasilian Portuguese.

Northwest Washington Indian Tribes' Traditional Dispute Resolution and the Northwest Intertribal Court System of Washington State. 11th Annual Alaska Native Law Conferece, Native Villages after Venetie: Local Governance, Tribal Courts and Update of the Law. Alaska Native Law Section of the Alaska Bar Association, Anchorage, Alaska. 1998.

A Contrastable Analysis: Northwest Indian Tribes Dispute Resolution Vis-A-Vis The American Legal System. Second International Conference on Cross Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland. July 1998. [video recording available from lecturer]

Traditional Dispute Resolution of the Northwest Area Indian Tribes, Seattle University Law School, guest lecturer. Sponsored by Native American Student Bar Association and Alternative Dispute Resolution Association. October 1997. [available in law library archives]

The Cross-Cultural Healing Processes of Native American Traditional Dispute Resolution. Third Annual Michigan Technological University Native American Speaker's Forum and Spirit of the Harvest Pow-Wow Gathering. Houghton, Michigan. November 6, 1998.

CONSULTANT

Panelist, Traditional Peacemaking and Modern Tribal Justice Systems conference. Indian Law Support Center, Native American Rights Fund. Presented on "Research Methodology" on traditional dispute resolution of the Northwest Washington Indian tribes. Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 1992.

IN THE NEWS

Coisas Nossas, Povos indigenas, Jornal De Brasilia, 6 Set 1999, p 5. Brasilia, Brazil.

RESEARCH

Research assistant, Northwest Intertribal Court System, Edmonds, Washington. Gathered oral history, conducted methodology analysis, and contributing writer to published work. Research project determined the informal dispute resolution processes within the Northwest Indian tribes. 1989 - 1991.

TRAINER/FACILITATOR

Co-facilitator, Conflict Resolution Class. Korean Women's Association, Tacoma, Washington. July 1998. From the thank you letter, "Your input helped the group to understand values having t do with their parents and cultures. I felt that if you had not been there we may not have had this perspective represented. I particularly enjoyed our discussion about tough, unsolvable conflicts where the balance of power is uneven, i.e., issues with parent/teen relationships." Signed: Youth Programs Coordinator.

Traditional Dispute Resolution Processes of the Northwest Washington Indian Tribes. In-service training to certified mediators at the Pierce County Center for Dispute Resolution, Tacoma, Washington. Utilized models developed for tribal employment, family and government disputes. April 1998.

Traditional Dispute Resolution of the Nothwest Indian Tribes. Instructor and facilitor, two-day workshop to students entering the social service fields. Northwest Indian College, Swinomish campus, Bellingham, Washington. April 1994.

Land Use Law

Area of Practice

Specific to Federal Indian Law, representation of clients on matters related to leases on federal trust land.

EDUCATION

High grade of an "A-" in Land Use Law, Seattle University School of Law.

Zoning on Indian Land, Certificate of Training, Falmouth Institute, Fairfax, Virginia. December 2002.

Management/Adninistration

Community Development Manager, The Tulalip Tribes, 2002 to 2003. Managed tribal government's planning department. Managed oversight of zoning ordinance and comprehensive land use plan for 23,000 acres of federal Indian trust lands.

Lectures

Land Rights for Native Americans. Panel member, The Lincoln Theatre Fourth Annual Human Rights Festival, Mount Vernon, Washington. March 2007.

NPDES/Clean Water. Tribal concerns and permitting processes, The 11th Annual Salmon Homecoming Forum. Seattle, Washington, September 11, 2003.

Strategic Planning. Tribal Infrastructure Workshop, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Indian Health Service. Olympia, Washington. April 2003.

Issues and Challenges Specific to Tribal Land Use Planning. Land Use Planning Seminar, the 2003 Reservation Economic Summit and American Indian Business Trade Fair. National Center for American Indian Enterprise. Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2003.

CONSULTATION

Traditional Methods of Conflict Resolution on Land Rights, Conselho Indigena de Roraima, Brazil. November 1999

Traditional Methods of Conflict Resolution on Environmental Conflicts, Socioambiental, Brazil. November 1999.

Committee Work

Steering Committee, Washington State Department of Trans-Framework Committee, on behalf of The Tulalip Tribes. 2002 committee member.

Planning Advisory Committee, Snohomish County Tomorrow, Snohomish County, Everett, on behalf of The Tulalip Tribes. 2002 committee member.

Tribal Judicial

JUDICIAL SERVICES

Appointed as a Tribal Judge, Pro Tempore with the Northwest Intertribal Court System of Washington State, during the early 2000s; she presided at these tribal courts:

Chehalis
Port Gamble S'Klallam
Suquamish
Nooksack
Tulalip

EDUCATION

"Essential Skills for Tribal Appellate Judges" certificate, National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada. July 2001.

"Law of Evidence" course, 44th Washington Judicial Conference, Tacoma,Washington. October 7 - 10, 2001, organized by Administrator of the Courts, Olympia, Washington.

PUBLISHED OPINION

Boston v. Tulalip Housing Authority, 6 NICS App. 28. January 20 2001.

VOLUNTEER JUDICIAL/ACADEMIC WORK

Moot Court Judge, National Native American Law Student Association, 2006 annual competition, brief judge and oral argument judge.

Moot Court Judge, Law and Diversity Program, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, 2003

LEADERSHIP

Elected board member (2000-2002) to the Northwest Tribal Court Judges Association, which included the tribal judiciary from the states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.

LECTURES

Wisdom for the Future from Lessons of the Past,

2000 National Tribal Judicial Conference, Seattle, Washington. Panelist speaker on Peacemaking, Traditional Methods of Dispute Resolution and "Modern Day Tribal Courts": How Can They Strengthen Each Other? September 2000.

CONSULTANT

Restorative Justice, independent consultant (Patricia Paul JD) with the Native Village of Kotzebue, Kotzebue, Alaska. Coordinated a team from Alaska to visit tribal justice systems:

Pueblo of Acoma Tribal Court
Gila River Police Department
Healing Lodge of Seven Nations
Tulalip Wellness-to-Healing Court
Lummi Nation Tribal Court

IN THE NEWS

Benchmarks: "Hon. Patricia Christine Aqiimuk Paul, J.D. has been appointed as a Pro Tem Tribal Judge by the Law and Order Divisionof the Lummi Nation for the Lummi Tribal Court in Bellingham, Washington. Patricia is Inupiaq (Northern Alaskan Eskimo) and also sits as a pro tem tribal judge with the Northwest Tribal Court System. She serves as an Executive Board Member with the Northwest Tribal Judges Association." Tribal Justice Today, Summer 2001, The Newletter of the National Tribal Justice Resource Center. The National Tribal Justice Resource Center is a project of the National American Indian Court Judges Association.

Estate Planning

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Federal Indian Wills

Wills for residents of Washington State

Power of Attorney

LECTURES

Indian Probate Law. Northwest Indian College, Bellingham, Washington. Faculty member, spring 2002.

Employment Law

AREAS OF PRACTICE

EEOC cases - plaintiff responses to claims of discrimination.

WSBA

Member, Labor and Employment Law Section, Washington State Bar Association, 2012 to present

Harvard Educated

EDUCATION

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Executive Education, certificate in "Innovations in Governance." 2005

IN THE NEWS

Woman to attend Harvard program. Patricia Paul has been accepted into Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government program. The program is designed to teach senior executives how to best devise and deploy new institutional arrangements to respond to their organization's needs. Paul works for the Tulalip Tribes as a legislative policy analyst in the tribe's governmental affairs department. Herald, Page B2, Wednesday, December 8, 2004, Everett, Washington.

Paul invited to Harvard government program. Patricia Paul of La Conner was accepted into Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government program, Innovations in Governance. Paul was invited by Harvard to apply for the one-week program, which is offered through the Kennedy school's Executive Education and Ash Institute of Democratic Governance an Innovations. The program is designed to teach senior executives how to best devise and deploy new institutional arrangements to respond to their organizations' needs. She will attend the fall 2005 session. A legislative policy analyst in the Tulalip Tribe's governmental affairs department, Paul holds a bachelor's degree in liberal studies from Antioch University in Seattle and a law degree from Seattle University School of Law. Anacortes American, page B7, Wednesday, December 1, 2004, Anacortes, Washington.

Policy Analyst

Experience

Legislative Policy Analyst, Governmental Affairs, The Tulalip Tribes, 2003 to 2006. Policy planning in water policy, law and justice, transportation, military, government-to-government. Delegate to Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians and National Congress of American Indians. Worked in the state capital of Olympia, Washington and the nation's capital of Washington, D.C.

Co-Vice President, Governmental Affairs Committee, Board Member, Washington Women Lawyers, 2005 - 2007

Lectures

Effective Lobbying, 3rd Annual Native Women's Leadership Forum. Muckleshoot, Washington. Jue 3, 2004.

How to Talk With Your Legislators. Panel speaker on Getting Involved in Government: Meeting our Communities' Needs. Everett Community College, Everett, Washington. May 22, 2004

Public Policy Process. Northwest Indian College, Bellingham, Washington. Faculty member, Winter 2001 - 2002. This course introduced the student to theoretical literature from the field of public administration and the traditional and contemporary requirements of the tribal community. An examination of policy development, changes and outcomes, as well as, the interaction of tribal, federal, state, regional, and local jurisdictions and current political issues.

The Government-to-Goverment Relationship Between the Nooksack Indian Tribe and the State of Washington. Faculty member, Northwest Indian College, Bellingham, Washington. Winter 2002.

SUPERVISED INTERNSHIP

Legislative Process of Developing Policies. Six credits, Law and Diversity Program, Fairhaven College, Western Washington University. 2004.

In the News

The Tulalip Tribes Hires New Legislative Policy Analyst. Tulalip-WA - November 4, 2003. The Tulalip Tribes recently hired Patricia Aqiimuk Paul as a Legislative Policy Analyst in their Government Affairs department. She previously worked as the community development manager for The Tulalip Tribes. She is also retired as a tribal judge pro tem, presiding here in the Pacific Northwest. Patricia eaned her undergraduate degree in Liberal Studies, with areas of concentration in political science and journalism, from Antioch University in Seattle. Se earned her juris doctorate from Seattle University School of Law. Patricia is Inupiaq (Northern Alaskan Eskimo) and resides in te Swinomish Indian Tribal Community of La Conner, Washington, with her husband Kevin Paul, and their daughter, Katherine. The Tulalip Tribes of Washington is a federally recognized Indan tribe and successors in interest to the Snohomish, Snoqualmie and Skykomish tribes and other tribes and band signatory to the Treaty of Point Elliott. Northwest Indian Bar Association (NIBA) Newsletter, Week of November 10, 2003.

Tribe hires Analyst. Patricia Aqiimuk Paul of La Conner has been hired by The Tulalip Tribes as a legislatie policy analyst in the Governmental Affairs Department. Paul is a retired Pacific Northwest tribal judge pro tem, who previusly worked as the Tulalip Tribes community development manager. She has a degree in liberal studies from Antioch University in Seattle, with an emphasis in political science and journalism, and earned her juris doctorate degree from Seattle University School of Law. Paul, an Inupiaq (northern Alaska Eskimo), lives in the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community with her husband, Kevin Paul, and their daughter, Katherine. Skagit Valley Herald, Section 3, page 1, Monday, November 10, 2003, Mount Vernon, Washington.

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