| Kevin
Gover, Esq., is the former Assistant Secretary
for Indian Affairs in the U.S. Department of the
Interior. Gover was nominated by President Clinton
on October 9, 1997, confirmed by the U.S. Senate
November 9, 1997, and took the oath of Office
as on November 12, 1997. After his term ended
in 2000, Gover joined Steptoe and Johnson LLP
as a partner and as a group leader of its American
Indian Practice.
Mr. Gover is a member of the Pawnee
Tribe and a native of Lawton, Oklahoma. He
attended Princeton
University, receiving his BA in public and
international affairs from the Woodrow
Wilson School of Government. He received a
Juris Doctor from the University
of New Mexico School of Law. Following law
school, he served as law clerk to the late U.S.
District Judge Juan G. Burciaga of Albuquerque.
From 1983 until 1986, he specialized in environmental
and natural resource law, as well as federal Indian
law, in the Washington, DC, law firm of Fried,
Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen.
In 1986, he formed his own law firm
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with Cate Stetson
and Susan Williams. The firm specialized in federal
Indian, natural resource, environmental and housing
law, with an extensive legislative practice.
Listen to past Native America
Calling shows featuring Kevin Gover
11/6/00: Government to Government
Relationships (Listen)
(more
info...)
6/13/00: BIA Access with Kevin
Gover (Listen)
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info...)
2/22/00: Bureau of Indian Affairs
for 2000 (Listen)
(more
info...)
9/13/99: BIA Update with Kevin
Gover (more
info...) (Listen)
5/13/99: Kevin Gover on Indian Education (more
info...) (Listen)
2/23/99: Open Lines with Kevin Gover (more
info...) (Listen)
1/19/99: Tribal Governments in
Transition (more
info...) (Listen)
10/22/98: Success Stories from Across Indian Country
(more
info...) (Listen)
5/13/98: Bureau of Indian Affairs (more
info...) (Listen)
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