Madeline Soboleff Levy (Shaa Xei di Tlaa / Gaayjuwaay) has accepted a new position as General Counsel to Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. Levy formerly served as the Tribe’s Child Support Attorney where she provided legal services and representation in all paternity and child support cases.
As General Counsel, Madeline will provide legal counsel in the areas of tribal government, federal-tribal relations, jurisdiction issues, environmental and natural resources law and policy, economic development, tribal business enterprise and employment issues.
Levy holds a degree of Juris Doctor from the University of California Los Angeles School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from the University of Puget Sound. She formerly served as law clerk for a superior court judge in Fairbanks and as an adjunct professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where she taught law and policy courses in Native Studies, Federal Indian Law and Tribal Self-Governance.
Levy is Tlingit, Haida and Norwegian. She is of the Raven moiety, L’eineidi clan (Dog Salmon), Aanx’aakhittaan house (House in the Middle of Town) and is a member of the Xaadas Git’ alang (Children of the Haida) dance group.
She will begin work on Sept. 19.
