Lisa Goree (born 1963/1964) is a Native American politician currently serving as chair of the Shinnecock Indian Nation Council of Trustees, the first woman elected to the position.
Goree was born to a single mother and raised on the Shinnecock Reservation (the first, and so far, only federally recognized tribe in Long Island) in Southampton, New York.
[6] She later announced that one of her goals is to settle the tribe's land dispute with Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.
[1] Although women had already served as trustees, with three of them in the council at the time,[1] she became the first woman elected to the position since the state government's 1792 establishment of the Shinnecock trusteeship.
"[1] She has three daughters; one of them, Kesi, played NCAA Division II women's basketball for the NYIT Bears and later became the first Native American woman in the Southampton Town Police Department.