Christina Kazhe established Kazhe Law Group PC in March 2008 as an Indian woman owned business providing outstanding legal service with integrity. As an associate and equity partner with nationwide Indian law firm from 2001 to 2008, Ms. Kazhe successfully represented Native American tribes in state and federal civil litigation, restored land determinations, Indian Child Welfare advocacy, and fee-to-trust applications and federal recognition. More recently, she successfully represented Wilton Rancheria in their pursuit of restoration status as a federally recognized tribe. Through her representation, Wilton Rancheria was successfully restored in 2009. She has broad experience in issues related to tribal government, tribal sovereignty and self-determination, taxation, reservation economic development, gaming law, and environmental and cultural preservation.

While an associate with Morrison & Foerster LLP, from 1996 to 2001, Ms. Kazhe had a broad commercial litigation practice representing national and international clients in state and federal courts. Her cases included unfair competition, contractual disputes, fiduciary duty, malicious prosecution and insurance coverage actions. She was also a summer associate with Morrison & Foerster LLP during her first and second year of law school.

Christina Kazhe received her law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996 and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Davis, in 1993. She has received numerous honors from UCD including the 2004 Young Alumni Award and the 1993 Outstanding Woman Graduate Award. In 2010, she was named by the Sacramento Business Journal as "40 Under 40" for leadership, entrepreneurship, and community involvement.

Most recently, Christina has been appointed to the Board of Directors for the California Endowment, a private, statewide health foundation with the mission to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. Ms. Kazhe has been a member of the Board of Directors of the American Indian Child Resource Center in Oakland, California, and served a three-year term as the Board's chairperson. AICRC is a nonprofit social service and education agency founded in 1972 to preserve Indian families. She also serves as Chairperson of the Native American Alumni Association at UC Davis. She is a Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum, Mountain Valley Chapter Class XII. Ms. Kazhe also has been elected to the Parent Committee for the Elk Grove Unified School District, Indian Education Program each year since 2004 and is currently serving her third term as Chairperson for the Board. She also co-organized the Sacramento Native American Playgroup for native families.

She lives in Elk Grove, California, with her family and is a member of the Navajo Nation and affiliate to the Mescalero Apache Tribe.

Michelle Chi is an associate at Kazhe Law Group PC. She joined the Kazhe Law Group in 2012. Michelle previously was an associate at a Sacramento, California Indian law firm in 2010 after serving as the firm's law clerk since 2007. Prior to attending law school, Michelle worked with local California Indian casinos. Michelle is experienced in a broad spectrum of tribal legal matters such as general civil litigation involving tribal governments, tribal gaming regulation and development projects. Her specialty is with water rights, land use, environmental and cultural resource protection, land into trust, Indian child welfare and tribal taxation. She is extensively involved in developing statewide policy on tribal water rights and tribal taxation. She and Christina Kazhe direct Kazhe Law's general civil litigation practice, the drafting of tribal codes, and issues surrounding tribal governments.

Michelle received her J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 2009. While in law school, Michelle was president of the Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) and the Vietnamese Association of Law Students (VALS). Michelle received her bachelor degree in Psychology from the University of California, Davis in 2004.

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