Daniel Ray

Daniel Ray is a Senior Attorney with Maier Pfeffer Kim Geary & Cohen LLP. His practice spans multiple areas, including tribal law, policy, and economic development, tribal government and self-governance matters, fee-to-trust acquisitions and applications, Indian Child Welfare Act cases, and civil litigation in tribal, state, and federal courts.

Before joining the firm, Daniel was a Partner at a national law firm specializing in federal Indian law where he ran a nationwide Indian Child Welfare Act practice, served as a tribe’s Interim-Attorney General, litigated water rights cases in federal court, and provided General Counsel services to tribal governments. Daniel also worked as a trial attorney at Contra Costa Public Defenders and the San Francisco Public Defender and clerked for the Honorable Justice Susan M. Carney of the Alaska Supreme Court.

Daniel is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Before attending law school, Daniel obtained a Master of Divinity Degree from Duke University Divinity School.”