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Lela Beckwith – President

Lela is a member of the Chickasaw Nation, one of the last 49 full bloods. She grew up in Pontotoc, Oklahoma speaking Chickasaw. Lela graduated from Haskell and majored in computers and business at University of California Irvine and UCLA. Most of her career was with government, retiring from Bureau of Land Management in 1995. Her BIA career included working in Rights Protection in Anadarko, Oklahoma processing 2415 claims. She and Terry have been married 53 years and together, they have two sons, Bobby Beckwith, working at Anadarko Agency and Warren Beckwith with ICC. They have six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

Terry Beckwith – Instructor

Terry is an enrolled member of the Quinault Indian Nation, from Washington state. He graduated from Haskell prior to beginning his career with the Office of Hearing and Appeals (OHA) in Portland, OR as a Probate Examiner for Judge RJ Montgomery, a Seminole from Oklahoma. He began his BIA realty career at Anadarko Agency and then with Anadarko Title Plant. Prior to retiring from the BIA in Palm Springs, CA as the Director of Realty for 9 years, he also worked on the Papago Agency (now Tohono O’odham Agency) as the Realty Officer and was a Realty Officer at the Sacramento Area Office. After he retired, he attended UCLA where he received an Award in Accounting. He was still bothered that the need for professionals was so necessary, he and Lela decided to redirect their focus, and the ICC dream was formed.

Warren Beckwith – Vice President

Warren is enrolled as a member of The Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation from Washington state. He has been with ICC for 20 years. For the past 15 of those years, has been the instructor for Land Descriptions. He was on the Board of Directors for the Indian Land Working Group (ILWG). He attended Haskell prior to returning to California where he worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Palm Springs, CA as well as Riverside, CA. He returned to Kansas, then Oklahoma, where he was a store manager at a few locations for a few years when he decided to follow his mentor, Terry, and helped shaped ICC by taking on the Land Descriptions class and has since taken on more of the classes as an Instructor in multiple subjects. He has three adult children, with two grandchildren, one grandson and one granddaughter.