Siletz news /, May 01, 2000, Page 16, Image 16

TRIBAL COURT JUDGES
Calvin E. Gantenbein has served
as a pro tem judge for the Siletz Tribal Court
since 1995. During this time, he was a trial
court judge as well as an appellate judge. In
July 1999, he was appointed by Tribal
Council as the chief judge.
George Stevenson is a native of
Portland, Ore. He graduated from Portland
State University in 1969, served in the
Marine Corps Reserve from 1969 to 1975,
and graduated from Willamette College of
Law in 1976.
For the last 12 years, Stevenson
has been a trial lawyer for the city of Salem,
Ore. He is a former tribal prosecutor for the
Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Indian Reservation and a former Oregon
State District Court judge pro tem in
Multnomah County. He also was involved
with law enforcement and law instruction and
administration for PSU, Portland Community
College, and Pacific Lutheran University.
Stevenson enjoys rafting, fishing,
snow skiing, hiking, and reading.
Arthur E. Fisher is a 1979 graduate
of Hastings College of the Law in San
Francisco, Calif. He is married with two
children and lives in Northern California. His
legal career has included lengthy
involvement with state and federal trial
courts as a civil litigator. He is the grandson
of Arthur S. Bensell, who was a leader
of the Siletz Tribe before, during, and
after restoration.
Robert Dickinson grew up in
Michigan. He came to Oregon in 1966 after
graduating from the University of Michigan
Law School. On Jan. 1,2000, he retired from
his law practice, which had concentrated
mainly on insurance trials. He lives in
Eugene with his wife, Jeri, an educational
consultant for the University of Oregon. In
addition to his position on the Court of
Appeals for CTSI, he serves as a judge pro
tem for several municipal courts.
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Ed Goodman has practiced Indian
law in Portland, Ore., since graduating from
Harvard Law School in 1989. He has
worked as a staff attorney and as director
of litigation for the Native American Program
of Oregon Legal Services, which represents
Oregon tribes on issues including treaty
rights protection, sovereignty and
jurisdiction, economic development, and the
Indian Child Welfare Act. He is a founding
member of the Indian Law Section of the
Oregon State Bar and was chairman in
1996-97. Currently, he is the project
manager for the Oregon Water Trust. His
outside interests include classical guitar,
bicycle touring, and basketball.
currently living in Siletz. She earned her B.A.
in social sciences at Hawaii Loa College, a
small liberal arts school on the windward
side of Oahu. Because of the Arizona State
University College of Law’s Indian Legal
Program, she decided to go to law school in
the desert and graduated cum laude in 1996.
Tufts has worked as a public defender
for the Colorado River Indian Tribe in
Arizona, and as a research attorney for the
Native American Rights Fund in Boulder,
Colo. She is admitted to the Arizona and
Oregon state bars.
She began working for the Siletz Tribe
as the project attorney for the Natural
Resources Ordinances Project, and moved
to the Tribal Court and Code Development
Project in February. She lives with two dogs,
Fred and Huva Poika. She frequently goes
to Nahcotta, Wash., to visit her parents,
Mary and Dennis Tufts, and her brother and
sister-in-law, Bill Tufts and Mary Kochis.