Legislative Advocacy

Throughout her career, Kathy Brodie has represented clients on a wide variety of domestic and international legal and public policy issues before Congress and the Executive branch, with a focus on Native American and cultural and historic preservation issues.

Kathy is a member of Akin Gump's American Indian Law and Policy practice group. She has ten years' experience representing Indian tribes on a wide range of issues, including health care and education funding, cultural resource preservation, irrigation project and detention facility funding, water rights, judgment fund distribution, Class III Tribal-State compact issues and economic development on Indian lands.

In her work on behalf of numerous clients, Kathie has worked with the offices of both Democratic and Republican members of Congress, the White House, the Department of Interior (Bureau of Indian Affairs and National Park Service), the Department of Health and Human Services (Indian Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration), the Department of State, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Department of Commerce and the Office of the United States Trade Representative.

Kathy played an invaluable leadership role in the establishment of a much needed granting program within the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that provides annual funding for tribal museums. She also actively represents the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers (NATHPO) before Congress in support of the Tribal Historic Preservation Officers program. Kathy is currently assisting the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership in pursuing enactment of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area, an Act that would recognize the depth of nationally significant historic, cultural and recreational resources in a four-state geographic region that runs from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Charlottesville, Virginia.

Kathy received her A.B. with honors in English literature from Bowdoin College in 1990 and her J.D. in 1997 from the George Washington University, where she was managing editor of the George Washington Law Review. She spent nine years of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan as a member of a foreign service family. She is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bars.

CONTACT:

Katherine D. Brodie
Counsel
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
1333 New Hampshire Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
Tel: (202) 887-4356
Fax: (202) 887-4288
 kbrodie@akingump.com