Emily deLisle has joined Galanda Broadman PLLC as an Associate, focusing on Tribal in-house and litigation matters.
“We are so happy to have Emily join us,” said the firm’s managing lawyer Gabe Galanda. “We look forward to working with her to advance and protect our Tribal clients’ interests.”
Emily joins Galanda Broadman from another firm where she also worked on behalf of Indigenous and Tribal clients. She previously spent two years clerking for Hon. Sunshine S. Sykes of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
Before clerking, Emily completed a fellowship at the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) in Washington, DC, during which she worked with rural Tribal nations to improve Native voters’ access to the ballot and political representation through legislative redistricting.
Emily graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2021. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in American History from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, where her undergraduate thesis focused on the origins and founding of the Carlisle Indian School.
Galanda Broadman, PLLC , is an Indigenous rights law firm with offices in Seattle and Yakima, Washington and Bend, Oregon. The firm is dedicated to advancing Indian Treaty and other Tribal sovereign legal rights as well as Indigenous human rights.
