Jena MacLean

Career

Jena MacLean has over two decades of experience representing clients in matters involving tribes and tribal lands and resources. Her wide-ranging experience includes inter-jurisdictional disputes between tribes and state and local governments, land and water claims, fee-into-trust applications, tribal-state compacts, natural resource development projects, federal preemption, and transportation infrastructure and rights-of-way. Work highlights include litigating tribal sovereign immunity litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court (Lewis v. Clarke (2017); Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Lundgren (2018)), challenging Indian Gaming Regulatory Act regulations on behalf of the State of New Mexico, and defending governmental entities in tax preemption challenges.

Personal

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. (2001)

Princeton University, A.B (1993)