After serving as a Navajo Nation Council delegate for 16 years and four years as Vice President in the Shirley-Shelly Administration, Ben Shelly was sworn in as President of the Navajo Nation on January 11, 2011. President Shelly was born in Thoreau, New Mexico. He is Tó’aheedlíinii clan born for Ts’ah Yísk’ídnii.