Amber Penn-Roco

About Amber

Amber is an Indigenous environmental attorney and a managing partner at Galanda Broadman. Her practice focuses on environmental protection and assisting in the economic development of Indigenous tribes. Her work heavily involves supporting tribal sovereignty, including assisting Indigenous tribes in broadening their authority and jurisdiction over a wide variety of practice areas, including air and water quality, hunting and fishing, forestry and timber, and telecommunications. Her work also includes transactional work, including contract negotiation, entity formation and environmental compliance and permitting. She has been named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers® from 2017 to 2025. She served as an Editor on the National Lawyers Guild Review. Amber has lectured on environmental justice, Indigenous rights and tribal sovereignty across the Pacific Northwest, having delivered talks at the University of Washington and Oregon State University. Amber has worked in the Native American Unit of the Northwest Justice Project, working to further tribal interests and to provide access to justice to low-income tribal populations. At her former firm, K&L Gates, Amber represented the Duwamish Tribe, pro bono, in its efforts to seek federal recognition. Amber is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.

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Colleagues at Galanda Broadman

Gabriel S. Galanda

Managing Lawyer

Rachel R. Tobias

Anthony S. Broadman

Ryan D. Dreveskracht

R. Joseph Sexton

Jessica R. Ditmore

Associate Attorney