The Supreme Court heard oral arguments at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 14, 2011. Pictured are former Chief Justice Herb Yazzie (center), Justice Eleanor Shirley (left), and Justice Wilson Yellowhair (right, sitting by special designation).
The Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation is the highest judicial Native American authority of the Navajo Nation, the largest American Indian nation in the United States. According to Harvard Law School, "the judicial system of the Navajo Nation is the most active tribal judicial system in the United States, with a case load that rivals, and in some instances exceeds, many municipal, county, and state judicial systems."[1]
The Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation sits in Window Rock.[2] It is a three-member body consisting of the Chief Justice JoAnn Jayne, and Associate Justices Eleanor Shirley and Tina Tsinigine.[3]
^"Navajo Supreme Court" Archived 2006-09-05 at the Wayback Machine on the occasion of the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation Oral Arguments Perry v. Navajo Nation Labor Commission April 12, 2006, Harvard Law School
^"Courts of the Navajo Nation in the Navajo Nation Government: A Public Guide to the Courts of the Navajo Nation"[usurped] revised January 2010, archived 3 November 2010 at FreezePage[usurped]
^"Judges of the Navajo Nation Supreme Court"[usurped]
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