Mrs. Parks has extensive experience working with tribal communities and leadership in the area(s) of tribal justice system planning, program development, economic development, business law, code development, child welfare, sex offender prosecution and management and domestic violence. Mrs. Parks is a licensed attorney in the state of Illinois and in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota. Mrs. Parks is an appointed member of the North Dakota Supreme Court State and Tribal Court Committee. She has served tribal communities for more than fifteen years including as a member of the U.S. Department of Justice Violence Against Women Federal and Tribal Prosecution Task Force, and as the Chief Prosecutor for the Spirit Lake Nation.

For the past twenty years, Kelly Stoner has taught at the North Dakota School of Law and Oklahoma City University School of Law (OKCU) where she taught American Indian/ Tribal Law and Domestic Violence related classes. She directed the University of North Dakota Native American Law Project that served clients of the Spirit Lake Reservation with a caseload that targeted domestic violence and sexual assault cases. In 2011, Kelly was appointed as a Judge for the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. She also supervised a project in partnership with the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma that established a SAFE Unit at a local hospital, recruited SANEs and targeted community education on domestic violence and sexual assault. She is a frequent lecturer for the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic Violence and for the Office on Violence Against Women’s national technical assistance providers on domestic violence issues in Indian Country.