Troy Eid

Troy Eid (rhymes with “Side”) co-chairs the American Indian Law Practice Group for Greenberg Traurig, LLP www.gtlaw.com. He served as Colorado’s 40th United States Attorney, appointed by President George W. Bush, and chaired the Indian Law and Order Commission under President Barack Obama. Troy chaired the Colorado State Board of Ethics and is the immediate past President of the Navajo Nation Bar Association. He teaches “Native American Nations & Federal Law” as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver-Sturm College of Law.

Troy is frequently appointed by federal courts across the United States to mediate complex disputes between Indian tribes and state and local governments, and between tribes and energy companies. This includes Bad River Band of Chippewa Tribe v. Enbridge USA, in which the tribe sued to remove a 72-year-old international crude oil pipeline from its reservation along Lake Superior in Northern Wisconsin, and Seneca Indian Nation v. Hochul, where the tribe contends that the state has lacked a valid easement for Interstate 90 on the tribe’s reservation west of Buffalo, New York for the past seven decades.

Troy is currently the expert witness for the tribe in Oglala Sioux Tribe v. United States. That tribe has sued the federal government for inadequate public safety funding on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota – a tribal homeland larger than the state of Connecticut that is patrolled by just 33 police officers.

Troy and his wife Allison, a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, live near Morrison, Colorado and have two grown children. An aging yet undaunted ultramarathoner, Troy is a proud member of USA Track & Field. He was recently selected to compete in the 2025 Race Across Scotland, a 215-mile footrace over the Southern Uplands from the Firth of Clyde to the North Sea.