Terri Yellowhammer

Ms Yellowhammer is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Lakota Tribal Nation. She has an extensive background in human services, having practiced as an assistant attorney general for the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General and as a legal aid attorney for the Indian Child Welfare Law Center, where she represented parents involved in child protection. She also held a state level position in administrative law for the Minnesota Department of Human Services' Division of Licensing. In this capacity she reviewed administrative actions affecting persons working in state licensed programs serving individuals receiving residential treatment, foster care and nonresidential treatment and habilitation.

Ms. Yellowhammer's most recent position was with the Minnesota Department of Human Services where she was the state's policy consultant on the Indian Child Welfare Act, a position which involved working collaboratively with representatives from Minnesota's eleven American ndian tribal governments as well county social workers and attorneys. She has been a guardian ad litem specializing in ICWA cases, and was an associate Judge with the White Earth Band of Ojibwe.

 Ms. Yellowhammer holds an undergraduate degree from St. Catherine University and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Minnesota Law School.