Editing Mashantucket Pequot Tribe (section)

==Government==
[[File:Deb Haaland and Rodney A. Butler speak on Indigenous People's Day 2019.ogg|thumb|Representative [[Deb Haaland]] with Board Chair Rodney A. Butler speaking about [[Indigenous People's Day]] in 2019.]]
As of 2020, the Mashantucket Pequot Elders Council officers are:

*Chair—Marjorie Colebut-Jackson
*Vice-chair—Shirley "Laughing Woman" Patrick
*Secretary/Treasurer-Anthony Sebastian

The seven members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council are:
*Chair—Rodney A. Butler
*Vice-chair—Latoya Cluff
*Secretary—Matthew Pearson 
*Treasurer—Merrill Reels
*Councilor—Daniel Menihan 
*Councilor—Crystal Whipple
*Councilor—Michele Scott

The current administration's seven-member council has stated that the tribe's priorities are protecting tribal sovereignty, focusing on the educational, emotional, and physical well-being of members, and working to leverage the tribe's financial and economic strengths through partnership initiatives, both locally and abroad. Mashantucket Pequot's local investments include the Lake of Isles golf course and the Spa at Norwich Inn, both of which have proven to be positive additions to local municipal tax bases.<ref name="tribalElection"/>

Council members are elected by popular vote of the tribal membership to three-year, staggered terms. There are roughly 600 eligible voting members of the tribe, which numbered 1086 in 2018. Tribal Members must be at least 18 years old and in good standing with the tribe to be eligible to vote.