Admitted
1980, District of Columbia, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; 1983, Indiana; 1985, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
Law School
University of Michigan, J.D., 1980
Law School Graduation Year
1980
College
Kalamazoo College, B.A., with honors, 1977
Memberships
Indiana State and American (Member: Standing Committee on Judicial Independence; Committee on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar; Coalition for Justice and State Justice Initiatives; Satellite Seminar, Health Law Update 2001, American College of Health Care Executives) Bar Associations; American Law Institute (Member and Advisor to Restatement of Torts 3d General Principles); National Health Lawyers Association (Member, Women in the Profession, Commission, 1988—).
Biographical
Author: Terminating the Physician-Patient Relationship, Marion County Medical Society Bulletin, March 1985; Reform Revisited, a Review of the Indiana Medical Malpractice Act 10 Years Later, Indiana Law Review, Volume XIX, Number 4, 1986; Health Law Update (1988), 18th Annual Meeting, National Health Lawyers Association; Institutional Review Boards and Human Research Issues, Risk Management Handbook for Health Care Facilities, 1990; Hospital and Physician Liability: A Legal and Risk Management Overview, Focus Series, National Health Lawyers Association, 1992; Stanley K. Lacy Leadership Series XIII. Columnist, Indianapolis Business Journal, 2000—. Director, Health Care Policy, State of Indiana, 1993. Associate Justice, Indiana Supreme Court, 1995. Member and Chair, Indiana Supreme Court Commission on Race and Gender Fairness. Member: Wishard Advantage Advisory Committee; Indiana Women in Law Conference, 1998-2002.