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Sara Hill
Sara Hill was appointed to serve as the Attorney General of the Cherokee Na- tion in 2019. Prior to that, she spent a decade in the Nation’s Office of the At- torney General and served as the Cherokee Nation’s first Secretary of Natural Resources. Her legal career has been entirely in Indian country, where she has worked on a wide range of legal issues facing tribes. She has often focused on environmental and natural resources issues, including serving as counsel for
the Nation in State of Oklahoma v. Tyson and Cherokee Nation vs. Sequoyah Fuels.
General Hill has a bachelor of arts from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla., and a juris doctor- ate from the University of Tulsa. She has won numerous awards for her legal and environmental work.
