Denise Turner Walsh

Denise Turner Walsh is the Attorney General of the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians located on the Rincon Reservation in Southern California. Attorney General Walsh represents the People of the Rincon Band in civil matters in tribal, state and federal administrative proceedings and before tribal, state and federal courts to support, defend and advance the rights and interests of the Tribe, its agencies, arms and enterprises. Her career in the field of Indian law began as clerk to the Chief Judge of the Colville Tribal Court in Nespelem, Washington. She went on to serve for more than five years as a staff attorney at the Native American Program Oregon Legal Services before entering private practice in 2007 and returning to California in 2011. She is a member of the Oregon State Bar, the New Mexico State Bar, the California State Bar and the Intertribal Court of Southern California. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California Los Angeles and her Juris Doctor from the University of California Hastings College of the Law.