Janelle Fullbright

Janelle Echo Lattimore Fullbright (December 11, 1945 – December 10, 2016) was a Cherokee politician and educator who was a member of the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council representing District 6 from 2007 to 2015. She served as the deputy speaker from 2013 to 2015.

Life Fullbright was born on December 11, 1945, to S. Loyd Lattimore and Juanita Garvin Lattimore in the Akins/Miller Ridge Community near Akins, Oklahoma. She was a Cherokee Nation citizen. The youngest of three children, Fullbright graduated from Central High School in the early 1960s.

Fullbright served on the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council for district 6 from 2007 to 2015. In 2015, principal chief Bill John Baker awarded Fullbright the Cherokee Nation Statesman Award. The same year, he appointed her to the Cherokee Nation Business Board. In this role, she served on the audit, governance and legal and cultural committees. Fullbright died on December 10, 2016, in her home in Sallisaw.