Nathan Voegeli

Nathan Voegeli is a Senior Attorney with Maier Pfeffer Kim Geary & Cohen LLP. Nathan has served in attorney and executive leadership roles with tribal and state government. His practice is directed towards natural resource, environmental, land acquisition and conservation, governance, and tribal gaming issues and governmental relations and negotiations.

Prior to joining MPKGC, Nathan was the Senior Advisor for Tribal Negotiations and a Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary with the California Office of the Governor. He has negotiated numerous tribal-state gaming compacts and managed a legal portfolio addressing wildlife, parks, agriculture, and toxics and pesticides. Previously, he served various roles as an attorney, tribal liaison, assistant chief counsel, and acting chief deputy for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. While there, he helped develop the department’s first memoranda of agreement with tribes for the cultural harvest of deer and fish, advised biodiversity and resource conservation programs, and worked with regulatory staff for permitting and environmental review compliance. Nathan began his legal career as in-house counsel for the Yurok Tribe in northern California, becoming general counsel and litigating natural resource issues, managing the tribe’s development of forestry carbon offset projects, helping the tribe reacquire over 25,000 acres of forest land, and facilitating build out of the tribe’s laws and policies.

Nathan is a board member for the Sierra Nevada Conservancy. He holds a Masters degree in international policy studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a law degree from the University of California, California of the Law, San Francisco. He grew up on the flat prairies of Kansas, earned his undergraduate degrees in Fairbanks, Alaska, and now calls Sacramento, California, home.