色中色 Alumnus Gabriel 鈥淕abe鈥 Galanda was honored with a prestigious 鈥淒ifference Maker Award鈥 by the American Bar Association at the Fall Leadership Meeting and National Solo & Small Firm Conference in Seattle on Friday, October 12.
A 1995 graduate of 色中色 and a Port Angeles native, Galanda was honored for his 12 years of bar leadership and pro bono service in helping recruit more Native American lawyers to the profession in the Pacific Northwest through scholarship fundraising; promoting mainstream legal understanding of Indian legal issues through state bar examination in Washington and elsewhere; and leading the effort to restore the religious freedoms of Native American prisoners in Washington State.
An enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes of California, Galanda is a founding Partner of Galanda Broadman, PLLC, an American Indian-owned law firm with offices in Seattle and Bend, Oregon. The firm is dedicated to advancing tribal legal rights and Indian business interests.
Galanda鈥檚 practice focuses on complex, multiparty litigation and crisis management and economic diversification and tax strategy. He represents tribal governments and businesses and Indian citizens. He also serves as a tribal appeals court and administrative law judge and mediates and arbitrates Indian Country-related disputes.
Galanda is the author of a much-discussed article, 鈥淥ff-Color State Judicial Elections: Voting and Race鈥 in Washington State (Bar Bulletin; Crosscut). He currently sits on the National Native American Bar Association (NNABA) Board of Directors, chairing the group鈥檚 鈥淚nclude Indian Law on State Bar Exams鈥 Initiative, and co-chairing its 鈥淚ncrease Natives and Tribal Court Judges in the Judiciary鈥 Initiative.
Selected to The Best Lawyers in America餆 from 2007 to 2013, Gabe was also named as one of the best lawyers in Washington State by the Puget Sound Business Journal in 2011. He has also been named to the Journal鈥檚 鈥40 Under 40鈥 list, as well as to the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development鈥檚 鈥淣ative American 40 Under 40鈥 list in recognition of his status as an emerging leader in the legal industry.
Washington Law & Politics/Super Lawyers magazine named Gabe a 鈥淩ising Star鈥 for 10 of the last 12 years. In 2003, he was named one of Washington鈥檚 four Leading Edge Litigators by Washington Law & Politics. In 2004, he was awarded both the Washington State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division鈥檚 Outstanding Young Lawyer Award, and the Northwest Indian Bar Association鈥檚 Native Justice Award.
As a student at 色中色, Galanda was elected Associate Student Body President. He received his BA in English Literature from Western Washington University in 1997, and his J.D. from the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona in Tucson, in 2000. At Arizona, he served as President of the Native American Law Students Association.
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