The 50 most powerful & influential people in Alabama

[tps_title]Robert McGhee, Head of Governmental Affairs, Poarch Band of Creek Indians[/tps_title]

McGhee is currently serving in his third term on the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Tribal Council and runs the Tribe’s governmental affairs operation.

The Poarch Creeks are able to devote an almost unfathomable amount of resources to state politics and have been at the center of political and legal debates in Alabama for the last decade.

McGhee is a savvy political operator who cut his teeth in Washington, D.C., at the U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau of Indian Affairs, the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and Troutman Sanders LLP-Indian Law Practice Group.

The Poarch Creek’s jaw-dropping offer to cover Alabama’s entire $250 million General Fund Budget shortfall has once again placed McGhee in the center of the action in Montgomery. Expect that to continue in the years to come.