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Special Trustee's Advisory Board

The nine-member Advisory Board provides the Special Trustee with advice on matters within the jurisdiction of OST. The new members appointed to the board reflect a diverse membership, as directed by statute, and represent Tribal account holders, individual Indian money account holders and private trust management and investment expertise.

• Mr. Bobby Brooks, Vice President and Property Manager, U.S. Trust, Bank of America
• Mr. David English, Fratcher Missouri Endowed Professor of Law, University of Missouri - Columbia;
• Honorable Jim Gray, Principal Chief of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma;
• Honorable Ron His Horse Is Thunder, Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe;
• Mr. Edward Holland, President and CEO, Chota Capital Company, LLC, and member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma;
• Honorable Fred Matt, Former Chairman of the Confederated Tribes of Salish-Kootenai of the Flathead Reservation in Montana;
• Honorable Richard Milanovich, Chairman of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians in California;
• Mr. Loren "Bat" Pourier, Owner, Muddy Creek Oil and Gas, Inc., and member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota; and
• Ms. Helen Sanders, Chairman of the Allottees Association and Affiliated Tribes of the Quinault Reservation, and member of the Chehalis Tribe of Southwest Washington.

The Advisory Board was created through the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 to provide advice to the Special Trustee on all matters within his jurisdiction. The composition of the board is detailed in the statute, and each member serves a two year term. The Special Trustee oversees the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians and is responsible for the oversight and coordination of the Department's efforts to reform its practices relating to the management and discharge of the Secretary's Indian trust responsibilities.