Kimberly Teehee Biography
Kimberly Teehee is an advocate, a lobbyist on Native American issues, and delegate-designate to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Cherokee Nation. She served as a senior policy advisor for Native American affairs in the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2012.
Prior to serving in the White House, Kim was Senior Advisor to the U.S. House of Representatives Native American Caucus Co-Chair, Rep. Dale Kildee (D-MI). Serving the bi-partisan Caucus for nearly 12 years, she established an impressive record of accomplishments on a wide array of Native American issues, including appropriations, education, economic development, energy, health care, housing, agriculture, and transportation. Kim’s ability to work across jurisdictional and partisan divides helped the Caucus achieve real progress on Native American issues.
Kimberly Teehee Age
When it comes to her age, Kimberly was born on March 2, 1966, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. She is 53 years old.
Kimberly Teehee Family
A member of the Cherokee Nation, she was born in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in Claremore, Oklahoma, where she and her family are fluent Cherokee language speakers. In the small town where they grew up, Kimberly rode on her brother’s coattails. He was a very popular athlete and she was just a little sister. The information regarding her parent’s names and siblings is currently under review.
Kimberly Teehee Education
Teehee is a graduate of Northeastern State University, where she was graduated cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science in 1991. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1995. She was awarded a Bureau of National Affairs Award. working for Cherokee Nation as a summer youth intern in the early ’90s changed the course of her career. Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller was leading the tribe.
Kimberly Teehee Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation also is known as the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the largest of three Cherokee federally recognized tribes in the United States. It was established in the 20th century and includes people descended from members of the Old Cherokee Nation who relocated from the Southeast due to increasing pressure on the Indian Territory.
Cherokee was forced to relocate on the Trail of Tears. The tribe also includes descendants of Cherokee Freedmen, Absentee Shawnee, and Natchez Nation. Over 299,862 people are enrolled in the Cherokee Nation, with 189,228 living within the state of Oklahoma. According to Larry Echo Hawk (in 2009), former head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), the current Cherokee Nation is not the historical Cherokee tribe but instead a “successor in interest,” though this argument was rejected by the Cherokee Nation.
Headquartered in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation has a tribal jurisdictional area spanning 14 counties in the northeastern corner of Oklahoma. These are Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Mayes, McIntosh, Muskogee, Nowata, Ottawa, Rogers, Sequoyah, Tulsa, Wagoner, and Washington counties. Teehee is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is Vice President of Government Relations for Cherokee Nation Businesses and Director of Government Relations for Cherokee Nation. Prior to joining Cherokee Nation, she served as Partner for Mapetsi Policy Group, a Washington, D.C. based federal advocacy group representing Indian tribes and tribal organizations.
Kimberly Teehee Salary and Net Worth
Ms. Teehee has a wealth of experience working in Washington, DC with representatives from both sides of the aisle. She also has a storied career of advocating and working on issues for both the Cherokee Nation and Indian Country in general. Although Kimberly has not disclosed the figure of her salary to the media. Her estimated net worth is currently under review.
Kimberly Teehee Husband
Despite being a famous advocate, Kimberly has managed to keep her love life under a low key. She has not disclosed to the public her marital status. Details of whether she has a husband and children or boyfriend are currently under review.
Kimberly Teehee Barrack Obama | Kimberly Teehee Delegate
By early 2009, President Barack Obama recognized Teehee. He selected her to serve on the White House Domestic Policy Council as the first-ever Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs. In this position, Teehee served to strengthen the relationship between the United States and tribal nations.
For three years, she collaborated with various federal agencies to create policies that helped address concerns within Native American communities. Teehee’s work led to an Executive Order from the President to improve Tribal Universities, as well as American Indian and Alaska Native Education. In addition, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum on tribal consultation as a result of her work.
During Teehee’s time in the White House, she was able to guide the President’s support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She also pushed for the support of legislation that would hold people accountable when they committed crimes of domestic violence against Native American Women. This was known as the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
Teehee continued to make an impact on the White House by leading a government-wide team to monitor the progress of tribal policy and legislation while organizing three White House Tribal Nations Conferences. In 2012, she began working as a Partner for a federal advocacy group called Mapetsi Policy Group.
This organization represented the concerns of Native American tribes and tribal organizations. Two years later, Teehee became the Vice President of Government Relations for Cherokee Nation Businesses and the Director of Government Relations for the Cherokee Nation. Due to her extensive experience, Teehee was the perfect person to fulfill the historic role as the first Cherokee delegate in the House of Representatives.
Appointed in September of 2019, Teehee’s position was the result of a treaty signed between the United States and the Cherokee Nation over 200 years ago. This treaty promised the Cherokee Nation representation in Congress. Kimberly Teehee is the first person to fulfill this role.
Kimberly Teehee Chuck Hoskin Jr
In August 2019, Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. appointed Teehee as the Cherokee Nation’s first-ever delegate to the United States House of Representatives. Her appointment was approved by the Cherokee Council on August 29. The Nation’s right to send a delegate to Congress was provided for in the Treaty of Hopewell of 1785 and the Treaty of New Echota of 1835; however, the right was not exercised until 2019. The U.S. House of Representatives will have to vote to seat Teehee as a delegate similar to those representing the U.S. territories.
Kimberly Teehee Contact
The Cherokee Nation has named Kimberly Teehee as its first-ever delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. She is currently not on any social media sites. Moreover, Kimberly’s contact information is currently under review.