Leroy was appointed by President George H. W. Bush as United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator in 1990,[2] and served in that capacity until 1993.
[5] Leroy graduated from Lewiston High School in 1965,[6] then attended the University of Idaho in Moscow, where he was ASUI president (1967–68) and a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Radioactive materials have half-lives of thousands of years [and] it is the Native American culture and perspective that is best designed to correctly consider and balance the benefits and burdens.Leroy was appointed the first head of the Office of the United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator in 1990, which identified Native American tribes that could host spent nuclear fuel.
[17][18][16] In 1994, Leroy ran for Congress in the first district and finished second in the Republican primary, behind Helen Chenoweth with 27.8% of the vote.
[22] In 2009, Leroy signed a petition in support of Polish film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after he was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and anally raping a 13-year-old girl.