James Schock, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux, has been appointed regional director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs’s Southern Plains Regional Office in Anadarko, Oklahoma.
His office oversees four agencies and one field office and serves 24 tribes in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
BIA Director Bryan Rice commented, “I’m very pleased that Jim Schock will be joining my BIA regional leadership team. His years of operating trust management programs coupled with his extensive experience in financial management administration will enhance our mission in carrying out the Interior Department’s trust responsibilities to the tribes within the Southern Plains Region.”
Schock said he was “I’m looking forward to working with the regional office staff on improving how we currently deliver services to these tribal governments and their communities, as well as developing new ways to accomplish our mission.”
Schock, a CPA, has served in the federal government for more than three decades, including time as an IRS revenue agent. His most recent assignment was as Indian Affairs’s chief financial officer, based in Reston Virginia.
He joined the Washington BIA office in 2011 as associate deputy bureau director for the Office of Trust Services.
