Percy Deal

Mr. Deal was first elected to the Navajo County Board of Supervisor’s in 1980 and took office in January 1981. He has been successfully re-elected for six additional terms and has served as Chairman of the Board several times during his tenure. Mr. Deal is the first Native American elected to a county office in Navajo County.

Prior to becoming a board member of the Board of Supervisors, he held various positions within the Navajo Nation, including Executive Director of the Navajo-Hopi Land Commission, member of the Navajo Nation Council from 1987 to 1990 and Staff Assistant to the Speaker from 1991 to 1993. He is currently serving as President of the Hardrock Chapter.

Mr. Deal is active in the National Association of Counties (NACo). He has served on the Public Lands Steering Committee since 1980 and was appointed by the President of NACo to the National Indian Task Force for 1989-1991 to design a County-Tribal relationship model which was adopted as NACo policy. In September, 1991, he was appointed to serve as Vice-Chairman of the NACo Public Lands Steering Committee and was appointed in July, 1995, to the National Board of Directors by the NACo President. Mr. Deal is also active in NACo’s Western Interstate Region (WIR), County Supervisors Association (CSA) and the Tri County-State Officials group. Mr. Deal was appointed in 2004 to the Homeland Security North Regional Council by Governor Napolitano.

Mr. Deal attended Eastern Arizona College and Northern Arizona University, from which he received an engineering degree in 1971. Mr. Deal and his wife, Christine, have 2 children, six grandchildren, and reside in Big Mountain on the Navajo Reservation. Mr. Deal enjoys spending lots of time with his grandchildren.

District I covers an area from the northern boundary of the Hopi Reservation all the way up to the Utah State border and includes the following chapters: Black Mesa, Chilchinbeto, Forest Lakes, Hardrock, Kayenta, Pinon, Shonto, Tachee/Blue Gap and Whippoorwill.