Gaylen Edmo receives law license from New Mexico State Bar Association
Sho-Ban tribal member Gaylen Edmo with his law license.
FORT HALL — Gaylen Edmo, Shoshone-Bannock Tribal member, traveled to Albuquerque, N.M. to receive his law license from the New Mexico State Bar Association on Friday, June 21.
Gaylen most recently served as a member of the Fort Hall Business Council. His term ended in mid-June. Gaylen graduated from the University of Idaho School of Law in 2020. He had two different emphases, Federal Indian Law and Natural Resource Environmental Law, which included water law.
After his law school graduation Gaylen worked for the Native American Rights Fund in Anchorage, Alaska and worked on Alaska Native legal rights issues. He also worked as an adjunct law professor for the University of Idaho in 2022 before his election to the tribal council. During his work on the tribal council he drafted several policy papers on protection of Shoshone-Bannock Treaty rights.
His plans are to secure a position in the legal/policy area and continue to live on the Fort Hall Reservation to practice his treaty hunting and fishing rights. He is married to Alana Edmo and they have an infant son, Orrin.
His parents are Wesley Edmo and Nancy Grant Edmo of Fort Hall.
