Eileen Luna-Firebaugh is an attorney and an associate professor of American Indian Law and Policy at the University of Arizona. She is Choctaw and Cherokee and a member of the Paint Clan, who traditionally enforced the laws of the Cherokee Nation. Descended from judges, Lighthorsemen, and those who held medicine, she is an associate justice of the Colorado River Indian Tribal Appellate Court and a tribal judge for the Sac River Band of the Chickamauga Cherokee. She writes extensively in the field of American Indian tribal police and tribal policy issues.