Linda Hogan
Linda Hogan is a poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and essayist.
Her novel Mean Spirit was a finalist for a Pulitzer in 1990 and won an Oklahoma Book Award for Fiction in 1991. She was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas in 1998. Other awards are too numerous to list.

She has played a prominent role in the development of contemporary Native American poetry and prose.

Zane Browning
Zane  Browning began his career with the BIA at age 19. In 1991, he received the Meritorious Service Award from the Department of the Interior in recognition of his dedicated service and outstanding contributions on behalf of Indian people.

Browning served as superintendent of the local BIA Agency from 1979 to 1993.

He assisted in establishing Chickasaw Nation compacts for control of many BIA programs.

He also helped establish the Chickasaw Nation health clinic in Ardmore.

Pauline Carpenter-Brown
Pauline Carpenter-Brown is a fluent speaker of the Chickasaw language and has considerable knowledge of Chickasaw history and culture.

She serves on the Chickasaw Language Committee, the Chickasaw Nation Historical society and the tribal election board.
She also makes use of her knowledge in her work as a consultant to Wickliffe Mounds Archeological Site in Kentucky, the Union County Historical and Genealogical Museum in Mississippi, and The Old Post Office Museum also in Mississippi. 

Robert Stephens
Robert Stephens served on the original steering committee which wrote the by-laws of the Chickasaw Nation in 1978.

He served two terms as a Chickasaw tribal legislator and was the first chairperson of that legislative body.

He was director of cultural resources and served as chairman of the cultural committee for the Chickasaw Nation. 
Mr. Stephens was the first gaming commissioner for the Chickasaw Nation. He also served as Chairman and vice-Chairman of the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association.