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Meet the Judges

Associate Judge Leona Colegrove

Leona Colegrove is a Juris Doctorate graduate of the UW School of Law
and has a Concentration in Alternative Dispute Resolution. In addition to
sitting at Tulalip she is also an Associate Judge for her own Tribe in
Hoopa, CA and the Chief Judge for both the Quileute Tribe and the
Round Valley Tribe in northern CA. Judge Colegrove is an enrolled
member of the Hoopa Tribe and also a descendant of the Quinault
Tribe. She has been practicing law since 2000 and began her judicial
work in both Tribal and State Court in 2006. She has extensive
experience hearing child welfare and family law matters. In addition
to her judicial work, Judge Colegrove is an active attorney and has
litigated Indian child welfare proceedings in both Tribal and State Court.
Judge Colegrove has written articles on Title IV-E and other topics that
she believes may assist Tribes in protecting and providing services to
Indian children in the foster care system. She was the first Indian Judge
to sit on the Washington State Supreme Court Commission on Children
in Foster Care. She currently sits on the Washington State Tribal Court
Judges Association Governing Board as well as the National American
Indian Court Judges Associations Executive Board. She is the Director
of the Nisqually Tribe’s Legal Office. She has two daughters, Olivia and
BryceLynn. Judge Colegrove sits on the Tulalip Bench as a part-time
Associate Judge every other Friday to hear Family Law cases.

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