Danielle J. Mayberry (Western Shoshone), J.D., was raised in Battle Mountain, Nevada. She has lived on both coasts and has also lived in North Dakota and northern Idaho and her family also has roots in Oklahoma, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Alaska. She has spent the last nine years working at a Tribal Court and performed administrative and legal responsibilities and duties. She also serves as a judge and is on the National American Indian Court Judges Association Board of Directors.

Danielle has extensive experience in court administration, developing and writing court forms, policies and procedures, and other related materials for everyday court processes and cases, including for Healing to Wellness courts; code writing; developing court practices that are restorative justice oriented and trauma informed; grant writing and the implementation of grant projects; legal research and writing; and working with state, federal, and state agencies and entities for tribal government/judicial initiatives. She has also provided training to tribal and state judicial officers and employees.

Danielle has published articles and a book chapter that address issues related to tribal sovereignty, tribal courts, and indigenous rights. She co-authored Nations Among Nations: Strengthening Tribal Resilience and Disaster Response, a book chapter within Current and Emerging Trends in the Management of International Disasters, with Rebecca Brenner, Kelbie Kennedy, and Marc Anthonisen. The articles include Danielle J. Mayberry and Carrie E. Garrow, A Portrait of Tribal Courts: Tribal Court Tools and Levers to Ensure Procedural Fairness for Self-Represented Litigants, 23 The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 221(2023); Danielle J. Mayberry, Protecting the Tosawihi Quarries and a Human-Rights Solution, Nevada Historical Quarterly, Vol. 62 Fall/Winter 2019; Danielle J. Mayberry, The Origins and Evolution of the Indian Child Welfare Act, NY Judicial Notice, Issue 14 (2019) and Carrie E. Garrow, Danielle J. Mayberry, & Micaelee Horn, Increasing Access to Justice Through the Use of Indigenous Restorative Justice and Trauma Informed Practices, 71 S.D.L.Rev. 519 (2026). Danielle has also been invited to speak at many national and state conferences/trainings and universities.

She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and History from Jamestown College, her law degree from the University of Idaho College of Law with an emphasis in Native American law, and she received a Certificate in Restorative Justice from the Vermont Law and Graduate School. While in law school, she served as a research assistant to Professor Angelique EagleWoman. Danielle is a proud aunt to two nieces and enjoys kayaking, reading, visiting her family, and adding new things to her large Star Wars collection. She is also a mom to some of the best cats around.

Danielle is an enrolled tribal member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone and she also ties to the Cherokee Nation. Her paternal great great grandparents are on the Dawes Rolls.