diff --git a/.github/workflows/team-lint.yaml b/.github/workflows/team-lint.yaml
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+name: Team Linter
+on:
+
+  # manual trigger
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+  # on pull request involving the ladder/teams directory
+  pull_request:
+    paths: 
+      - 'ladder/teams/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/team-lint.yaml'
+    
+jobs:
+  team-management-linter:
+    if: github.repository == 'cilium/community'
+    name: Team Management Linter Workflow
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    environment: team-management  
+    steps:
+      # Checkout repo with full config
+      - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
+      # Lint team membership files for org members
+      - name: check team membership for org membership
+        run: tools/lint_members.sh ladder/teams cilium
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TM_ORG_READ_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/tools/lint_members.sh b/tools/lint_members.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Copyright Authors of Cilium
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+##
+# This script is used to lint team membership
+# file based on a directory of yaml files of the 
+# form team-name.yaml
+# This tool is used as part of team-management automation
+##
+
+set -eu
+set -o pipefail
+
+# $1 - teams directory
+# $2 - org name
+if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 <TEAMS_DIRECTORY> <GITHUB_ORG>"
+  echo "Organization read token in envvar GITHUB_TOKEN"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+>&2 echo "> Linting $2 teams from $1/*.yaml"
+CDIR=`pwd`
+cd "$1"
+
+# Use GitHub API with paging to recover Org member login list
+url="https://api.github.com/orgs/$2/members"
+page=1
+flag=true
+logins=()
+check_org_members=true
+while $flag; do
+  status=$(curl --head --location --connect-timeout 5 --write-out %{http_code} --silent --output /dev/null -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" ${url}?page=${page})
+  if [[ "$status" -gt 399 ]] ; then
+    echo "GitHub API Org Membership Retrieval Failure with Status Code: $status"
+    flag=false
+    check_org_members=false
+  fi
+  if $flag; then
+    response=$( curl -s -I -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" "${url}?page=${page}" )
+    # Append to logins array
+    logins+=( `curl --no-progress-meter -L \
+      -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
+      -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
+      -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
+      ${url}?page=${page} | jq -r '.[].login'` )
+
+    # Check to see if there is a next page to grab
+    set +o pipefail
+    next_page=$(echo "$response" | grep -s 'rel="next"' | sed 's/.*<//' | sed 's/>.*//')
+    set -o pipefail
+
+    if [[ -z "$next_page" ]]; then
+      flag=false
+    fi
+  
+    page=$((page + 1))
+  fi
+done
+if $check_org_members; then
+  >&2 echo "Org Members:"
+  for login in "${logins[@]}"; do
+    >&2 echo "$login"
+  done
+fi
+>&2 echo ""
+
+status=0
+for file in *.yaml; do
+     >&2 echo -e "\n>> Linting members from $file"
+     f="${file%.*}"
+     cd "$CDIR"; cd "$1"
+     set +e 
+     members=$(yq -e -o t '.members' $file 2>/dev/null)
+     ret=$?
+     set -e
+     if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then
+       continue
+     fi
+     for member in ${members[@]}; do
+       if [ -n "$member" ]; then
+
+         #>&2 echo "checking team member: $member"
+         # Checking to see if team member login is cased correctly
+         http_status=`curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" --head --location --connect-timeout 5 --write-out %{http_code} --silent --output /dev/null --no-progress-meter "https://api.github.com/users/${member}"`
+         if [[ "$http_status" -gt 399 ]] ; then
+	   >&2 echo "Error: Member: ${member} :: GitHub API Status Code: $http_status"
+           status=1
+         else
+           login=`curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" --no-progress-meter "https://api.github.com/users/${member}" | jq -r .login`
+           if [ "$login" == "$member" ] ; then
+             found=1
+           else
+             >&2 echo "Team $f Member: $member case mistatch should be : $login" 
+             status=1
+           fi
+         fi
+
+         # Checking to see if team member login is in org membership
+         if $check_org_members; then
+           found=0
+           for login in "${logins[@]}"; do
+             if [ "$login" == "$member" ] ; then
+               found=1
+             fi
+           done
+           if [ $found -eq 0 ] ; then
+             >&2 echo "Team $f Member: $member not found in Org: $2" 
+             status=1
+           fi
+         fi
+       fi  
+     done
+     >&2 echo -e "\n>> Linting mentors from $file"
+
+     set +e
+     mentors=$(yq -e -o t '.mentors' $file 2>/dev/null)
+     ret=$?
+     set -e
+     if [ $ret -ne 0 ]; then
+       continue
+     fi
+     for mentor in ${mentors[@]}; do
+       if [ -n "$mentor" ]; then
+         >&2 echo "checking team mentor: $mentor"
+         # Checking to see if team mentor login is cased correctly
+         http_status=`curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" --head --location --connect-timeout 5 --write-out %{http_code} --silent --output /dev/null --no-progress-meter "https://api.github.com/users/${mentor}"`
+         if [[ "$http_status" -gt 399 ]] ; then
+	   >&2 echo "Error: Mentor: ${mentor} :: GitHub API Status Code: $http_status"
+           status=1
+         else
+           login=`curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" --no-progress-meter "https://api.github.com/users/${mentor}" | jq -r .login`
+           if [ "$login" == "$mentor" ] ; then
+             found=1
+           else
+             >&2 echo "Team $f Mentor: $mentor case mistatch should be : $login" 
+             status=1
+           fi
+         fi
+
+         # Checking to see if team mentor login is in org membership
+         if $check_org_members; then
+           found=0
+           for login in "${logins[@]}"; do
+             if [ "$login" == "$mentor" ] ; then
+               found=1
+             fi
+           done
+           if [ $found -eq 0 ] ; then
+             >&2 echo "Team $f Mentor: $mentor not found in Org: $2" 
+             status=1
+           fi
+         fi
+       fi
+     done
+done
+if [ $status -eq 1 ] ; then
+  >&2 echo -e "\n> At least one team member or mentor missing from org $2: exiting"
+  exit 1 
+fi
+
+