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Jan. 10, 2011

Kimberly R. Mettler

General counsel and Director of Legal Affairs for the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, Alpine

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By Mandy Jackson

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Kimberly R. Mettler, general counsel for the Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians, is an outsider with an insider's perspective.

Although Mettler isn't a member of the tribe for which she serves as general counsel, she is an American Indian. That uniquely informs her work for the tribe, which operates a casino and shopping mall on the 1,600-acre Viejas reservation in Alpine, just east of San Diego, and owns ... (continued)

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