Mr. Suagee has worked with the Hoopa Valley Tribe on the Trinity River in northern California, and for the past five years, with the Colville Tribes as a reservation based attorney on the Columbia, Okanogan, and San Poil Rivers in north central Washington. He has worked on instream flow issues for 14 years and much of the work he has done in both California and Washington has involved protection and restoration of stream flows. Mr. Suagee is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and received his JD from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1986. Mr. Suagee also is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Indian Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association, and member of the Cherokee Nation.