Troy A Eid

Practice Areas

Litigation

American Indian Law

Environmental Government Law & Policy

White Collar Defense & Special Investigations

Health Care & FDA Practice

Energy & Natural Resources

Energy Project Finance & Development

Tribal Gaming

Mining

Career

Troy A. Eid co-chairs the firm’s American Indian Law Practice Group and represents companies in criminal and civil investigations and enforcement actions. Troy is highly sought nationally as a mediator to resolve complex disputes between Indian tribes and energy companies, and between tribes and state governments.

Troy served as Colorado’s 40th United States Attorney appointed by President George W. Bush. During the Obama Administration, Troy was appointed to chair the Indian Law and Order Commission, the national advisory board to the President and Congress for strengthening public safety for all 573 federally recognized tribes in the United States. Before joining GT, Troy served on the cabinet of former Colorado Governor Bill Owens as Chief Legal Counsel to the Governor and later as the Executive Director of the Department of Personnel & Administration, where he directed Colorado’s 72,000-member civil service system and provided mission-critical business, financial, technology, real estate, and operational services to the state’s $8 billion government.

Troy currently serves as the elected President of the Navajo Nation Bar Association. He has been honored for excellence by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Secret Service, and more than two dozen federal, state and tribal departments and agencies across the country.

Professional Memberships

President, Navajo Nation Bar Association, 2018-Present

Board of Trustees, Center of the American West

Alumni Leadership Council, German Marshall Fund of the United States

Elected Member, Navajo Nation Commission on Judicial Conduct, 2016-Present

At-Large Member, United States Sentencing Commission, Tribal Issues Advisory Committee, 2015-Present

Adjunct Professor, University of Denver – Sturm College of Law, 2012-Present

Appointed by the U.S. Senate and elected to chair the National Indian Law and Order Commission, which advises the President and Congress on public safety and criminal justice improvements for all 567 federal recognized Native American and Alaska Native Tribes and Nations, 2010-2014

Board Member, Colorado Legal Aid Foundation

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Colorado Bar Association

Member, Federal Bar Association

Member, American Law Institute; currently working on the Restatement of the Law Third; The Law of American Indians

Member, National Association of Former United States Attorneys

Board of Directors, NavajoYES (Navajo Nation non-profit organization dedicated to fitness and sponsor of ‎the Navajo Parks Race Series)

Board Member, Mesa Verde National Park Foundation, 2011-Present

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2010-2022

Personal

Education

J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1991

A.B., Stanford University, 1986

Clerkships

Judge Edith H. Jones, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1991-1992