Kevin K. Washburn

Kevin K. Washburn
12th Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs
In office October 9, 2012 – January 1, 2016
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Donald Laverdure (Acting)
Succeeded by	Lawrence S. Roberts (Acting)
Personal details
Born	Kevin K. Washburn August 9, 1967
Nationality	American, Chickasaw
Alma mater	University of Oklahoma (B.A.) Yale Law School (J.D.)
Profession	academic, attorney
Website	[4]

Kevin K. Washburn (born 1967) is an American law professor and the former dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law. He served in the administration of President Barack Obama as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior from 2012 to 2016. Washburn has also been a federal prosecutor, a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, and the General Counsel of the National Indian Gaming Commission. Washburn is a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, a federally-recognized Indian tribe.

Washburn was raised in Oklahoma City and small towns in Oklahoma, including Purcell, Heavener and Ada, and graduated from Moore High School, in Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City. He was raised along with two siblings by his mother, Shirley Stark nee Wallace, who was single for much of his childhood. She eventually retired as a community health representative for the Chickasaw Nation and currently serves on the tribe's Council of Elders. Washburn went to college at the University of Oklahoma, where he majored in economics and minored in philosophy. After graduating with honors, Washburn began law school at Washington University (in St. Louis) where he was the inaugural Gustavus A. Buder Scholar. After his first year of law school, Washburn transferred to the Yale Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal on Regulation and received his law degree in 1993.

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