GamblingCompliance: NIGC Chair Tracie Stevens might leave

Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Filed Under: NIGC
More on: barack obama, igra, tracie stevens, tulalip

Tracie Stevens. Photo Courtesy National Indian Gaming Commission

Tracie Stevens, the chairwoman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, might leave by the end of August, GamblingCompliance reports.

Stevens is a citizen of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington. She joined the NIGC in June 2010.

Under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the chair serves a three-year term so Stevens's tenure is ending. She could be re-nominated for the post but President Barack Obama hasn't made an announcement.

If Stevens departs, the commission would be left with just one official member -- Dan Little, a non-Indian who is serving a second term as an associate member. The agency has been without a third member since January, when former vice chair Steffani Cochran, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, departed.

Stevens has made tribal consultation a top priority during her time at the NIGC.

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