Brigham Young University law professor Larry Echohawk is one of two people just appointed by President Clinton to the national Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
The council coordinates all federal programs that care for unaccompanied juveniles or relate to missing and exploited children. The council examines how separate programs can be coordinated among federal, state and local governments to better serve at-risk children and juveniles.The council is chaired by Attorney General Janet Reno and makes recommendations to the Congress and the president each year.
Echohawk, of Orem, is a law professor at BYU's J. Ruben Clark Law School.
He was Idaho's attorney general from 1990 to 1994. He was a Bannock County prosecuting attorney from 1986 to 1990 and before that, was a member of Idaho's House of Representatives. From 1977 to 1986 he was chief general counsel for the Bannock-Shoshone tribes.
In 1985, he served as special prosecutor for the Navajo Nation.
He has also served on the boards of American Indian Services, the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies, and as vice president of the National Association of Attorneys General.
Echohawk received his bachelor's degree from BYU and a J.D. degree from the University of Utah.
Clinton also appointed Robert A. Babbage Jr., of Lexington, Ky., who is a senior managing partner of a firm specializing in government relations, lobbying and business development.
He was the vice president of the U.S. Corrections Corporation from 1997-1998. He served as chairman and CEO of the Kentucky Democratic Party from 1995 to 1997. From 1992 to 1996 he was the elected secretary of state in Kentucky.
He has also held several other state posts, and was the chairman of the United Way of Kentucky and chairman of the Kentucky Council on Alcoholism.