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Leadership

  • Scott Davis

    Exercising the delegated authority of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs

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    Headshot for Scott Davis

    Scott Davis, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and a descendant of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is serving as senior advisor to the secretary of the Interior, exercising the delegated authority of the assistant secretary for Indian Affairs. He has dedicated much of his career to public service and tribal leadership. From 2009 to 20 ...

  • Bryan Mercier

    Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs

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    Bryan Mercier

    Bryan Mercier is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon. Prior to his appointment as Director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs on September 30, 2024, he served as the regional director of BIA’s Northwest Region. He has spent 20 years working in public service, starting as a Morris K. Udall Foundation Intern and M ...

  • Tony Dearman

    Director - Bureau of Indian Education

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    Darryl LaCounte

    Tony Dearman, a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the director of the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Bureau of Indian Education implements federal Indian education programs and funds 183 elementary and secondary day and boarding schools serving approximately 48,000 students. As the dire ...

  • Margaret Williams

    Acting Bureau Director

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    Margaret Williams

    Margaret served as Senior Advisor to the Principal Deputy Special Trustee, a position that she's held since August 2018. She began her federal career in 1992 as an Accountant for the Branch of Investment Accounting in the Office of Trust Funds Management (OTFM) when it was still under the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Margaret brings a 30+-year history and compr ...

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