David C. Harrison, a member of the Osage Tribe, has been appointed Judicial Services Officer in the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Office of Indian Services, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Morris Thompson announced today.
The position is a new one created to enable the Bureau to work more effectively for the strengthening of tribal judicial systems. Harrison, in the new post, will work with national organizations of Indian judges, tribal chairmen and Indian lawyers.
Harrison is a Harvard Law School graduate who has been a member of the Rights Protection Staff in the BlA's Office of Trust Responsibilities.
A former Marine Corps Captain, Harrison was a Senior Investigator in the New York State Special Commission on Attica in 1971-72. He wrote several chapters on the Commission's final report published by Bantam and Praeger.
