Who said that President Obama has a fixation on law professors only at Harvard and Yale?
Last Friday, President Obama nominated Larry Echohawk (pictured) to be Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs (Department of the Interior). Echohawk is a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. In 1990 he became the first American Indian in U.S. history to be elected to a statewide office, becoming attorney general for the state of Idaho. Currently he is a law professor at BYU, where he teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, and federal Indian law.
The White House press release is here. The BYU press release is here.
Echohawk is an interesting guy, one of last democrats to hold a very major office in Idaho for a long time. (I'm pretty sure I voted for him for governor when he ran unsuccessfully in '94.) I've not followed him much since but it seems like an interesting choice.