Tompkins becomes first Navajo Board of Trustee of an Ivy League school

The first Navajo to become a United States Solicitor, Hilary Tompkins of Zuni, New Mexico, recently became the first Navajo to become a member of a Board of Trustees for Dartmouth College, an ivy league institution founded for the education of Native Americans.  (The Board of Trustees is the governing board of the college.)  The school also honored her an honorary doctorate for her legal work.  She assisted with the $554 million dollar Cobell settlement that the United States government agreed to pay the Navajo Nation for the Settlement.  Some of the money went into the Navajo Nation's infrastructure such as roads and water lines.  Way to go Tompkins!