Stephanie Sfiridis is a member of the Public Policy and Regulation practice and the Native American Law and Policy practice, which serves clients on matters related to American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian issues. Stephanie has extensive experience advising and advocating for Native communities in Tribal, state, and federal forums, with a focus on land and realty, gaming and economic development, and federal acknowledgement.

Prior to joining Dentons, Stephanie served as Senior Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the US Department of the Interior (Interior). In this role, she led policy and regulatory approaches on some of the most high-profile matters in Indian gaming, Tribal land acquisition and federal acknowledgment. Stephanie has substantial knowledge of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and Tribal-State gaming compact processes. Her expertise extends to fee-to-trust transactions for both gaming and non-gaming purposes, rights-of-way and trespass over Indian lands, and other lands issues. She helped draft the updated Class III Tribal State Gaming Compact Process regulations found at 25 C.F.R. Part 293; the Land Acquisition regulations found at 25 C.F.R. Part 151; and updates to the federal acknowledgement process. While at Interior, Stephanie also served as Acting Director of the Office of Federal Acknowledgement.

Stephanie previously served as an associate attorney at a Washington, DC law firm where she represented tribal clients on a wide range of issues including economic development, transactional matters, government affairs and policy, fee to trust, and litigation. She also served as Associate In-House Counsel for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Gaming Authority where she worked on a variety of issues for both the Tribe’s gaming authority and government.

Stephanie earned her J.D. from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University where she focused on the Indian Legal Program, earning CALI awards for both Federal Indian Law I and II. Stephanie is a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe.