Leila McCabe

Leila McCabe is a member of the Board of Directors at the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation (TCRHCC). She also serves on the TCRHCC Finance Committee. She is from Coppermine, Arizona. Her clans are Tlizilani nishli’, born for Biih Bitoonii and Kinyaa’ da bi chei and Tsinaajinii’da bi nali’.

Leila has an extensive background in education where she graduated from Weber County High School in Ogden, Utah; she has attended: Stevens-Henager Business College in Salt Lake City, Utah; Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona; the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and participated in summer seminary at the University of Utah and Arizona State University.

Besides Leila’s teaching and leadership certifications in education, she has obtained the certification to counsel using the Fundamental Law of Dine’ with the Navajo Nation Peacemaking Court.

Leila has received the Distinguish Award of Outstanding Superior Performance from Leupp Boarding School; Tuba City Unified School services award for dedicated and invaluable services rendered for the past 15 years, and Gratitude and Certificate of Appreciation from the Peacemaking Department in Tuba City and was selected as an Honored Member of Heritage Registry of WHO’s WHO.

Leila’s goal and desire in her career have been dedicated to help the Navajo people. Her work history started as working as an Instructional Aide from 1962 to 1968 at the Leupp Boarding School and as a clerk for the Navajo Police Department in the summer of 1972. After obtaining her degree, she started teaching for the Tuba City Unified School from 1972 to 1974. Then from 1974 to 1978 as a primary school teacher at the Kaibeto Boarding School. Upon receiving her master’s degree in education, she worked at the Low Mountain Boarding School as a Principal from 1979 to 1981. Later she transferred to Leupp, AZ as a Department Academic Head from 1981 to 1986. She then returned to the Tuba City Unified School as School Site Supervisor and Assistant Principal from 1986 to 2009.

Her time now is spent learning and advocating for the health and safety of the people from the Hopi, San Juan Southern Paiute and Navajo Nations.