Turtle Mountain man added to White House fellowship panel

Friday, July 19, 2013  

Rion Joaquin Ramirez, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, has been named to the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships.

Ramirez, who also has ancestry from the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, will help choose the annual class of White House Fellows. The fellows serve as assistants to senior White House staff, the vice president, Cabinet secretaries and other top government officials.

Ramirez serves as general counsel for the Port Madison Enterprises, the economic development corporation of the Suquamish Tribe of Washington. He is the second enrolled tribal member on the commission -- the other is Keith Harper of the Cherokee Nation.

Get the Story:
Native Presence Added to Commission on White House Fellowships (Indian Country Today 7/17)
Another Suquamish Tribe official named to a federal commission (The North Kitsap Herald 7/16)