Larry Echo Hawk, Designee
Senior Advisor on Children and Youth

EchoHawk comes to Interior from Brigham Young University in Utah, where he is a professor of law at BYU's J. Reuben Clark Law School. His law career of over 35 years includes experience in the areas of legal aid services, federal Indian law, private practice, and public service as a tribal attorney, county prosecutor and, following his election in 1990, attorney general for the state of Idaho. In the 1980s, he served two consecutive terms in the Idaho House of Representatives.

EchoHawk also has served with organizations that focus on American Indian and youth issues and is a past member of the federal Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (2001-2002).

EchoHawk received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1970 from BYU, his Juris Doctor degree in 1973 from the University of Utah, and is the first American Indian elected as a state attorney general. Echohawk is also a former Marine.

The Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs has responsibility for helping DOI fulfill its trust responsibilities to tribal and individual trust beneficiaries and promoting self-determination and self-governance for the 562 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes. He oversees BIA and BIE, one of two federal school systems.

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