Lee Bergen was appointed to Isleta Appellate Court by the Tribal Council on July 15, 2015. He currently serves as the Chief Justice.

Mr. Bergen graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1986. Since then, his law practice has focused on representing Indian tribes and their businesses.

Justice Roshanna K. Toya was appointed to the Appellate Court in 2013. She began serving as a lay justice and has since transitioned to a law trained justice. Justice Toya graduated from New Mexico State University with two master’s degrees in both criminal justice and social work. She received her J.D. from UNM School of Law where she received the clinical honors award for her work in the Southwest Indian Law Clinic, and the Dean’s Award for significant contribution to the law school community. Justice Toya also served as Co-Editor in Chief of the Tribal Law Journal.

After graduating from law school, she began clerking for the New Mexico Court of Appeals where she conducts legal research and drafts legal opinions on complex questions in all areas of criminal and civil law.

Justice Toya serves on various boards, notably serving as President of the New Mexico Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the NM Juvenile Justice Advisory Commission, the PLSI Judicial Clerkship Committee, and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Task Force on Research on Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women.

Earl Mettler has been an associate justice on the Pueblo of Isleta appellate court since 2017.
He graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1974.  He worked as an assistant attorney general of South Dakota, and staff attorney and managing attorney for DNA People’s Legal Services in Shiprock, and then was in private practice based in Shiprock, New Mexico from 1982 until 2016, handling serious personal injury, Indian law, commercial litigation, employment termination, employee benefits and other substantial litigation.

Long active in representation of Native Americans, he has represented groups of Native American job applicants in employment discrimination cases, and handled a class action for all individual Indian money account holders against the BIA. He has been successful in establishing federal court recognition of tribal law, and has handled cases establishing various precedents in tribal court.  He was an instructor of tribal court advocacy at Diné College, and is the author of articles on Indian tribal sovereignty and on the representation of Native Americans in personal injury cases.