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The Alumnae Network is a forum for women graduates to connect with each other, current students and the law school community. As women graduates of Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, we are part of a rapidly growing and dynamic group of women who have blazed trails for later generations of women and have excelled in all areas of legal expertise. Currently, there are more than 3,200 alumnae of the school with over 100 new alumnae added to that number each year!

Kristin G. Fruehwald, ’75 Receives Outstanding Alumna of the Year Award

On March 13, Kristin G. Fruehwald, ’75 was the 10th woman to receive the Alumnae Network’s Outstanding Alumna of the Year award at the annual luncheon event which took place this year at Woodstock Club in Indianapolis. Several of Fruehwald’s women classmates from the 1970’s, as well as colleagues from her Barnes & Thornburg and others who have worked with Fruehwald in her many volunteer leadership positions, faculty from the law school, and distinguished members of the judiciary were on hand to help celebrate her accomplishments. Her law partner and old friend, Daniel H. FitzGibbon, gave a tribute in her honor.

Fruehwald is a partner at Barnes & Thornburg LLP, where she co-chairs the firm's Estate Planning Practice Group. She is past president of the Indiana State Bar Association, past president of the Indianapolis Bar Association, and is serving as a member of the Indiana Probate Code Study Commission and as co-chair of the Estate Planning and Administration Specialty Certification Board. She is a past chairman of the Probate, Trust and Real Property Section of the Indiana State Bar Association and past chairman of the Estate Planning and Administration Section of the Indianapolis Bar Association. She has been elected to membership in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and is included in the publication, The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Trusts and Estates. She has served as president and on the board of each of the following organizations: the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum; the Indiana Federal Community Defenders, Inc.; the Indianapolis Bar Foundation; and The Orchard School. She is serving or has served on the boards of the Central Indiana Land Trust, Inc.; the Indianapolis Legal Aid Society, Inc.; Indianapolis Parks Foundation; the Riley Children's Foundation; Arts Indiana, Inc.; the Indiana Equal Justice Fund; the Indiana Bar Foundation; and the Planned Giving Group of Indiana. She served as the co-editor of the Indiana Probate, Trust, Real Property and Death Tax Newsletter. She is a member of the American, Indiana, and Indianapolis Bar Associations and is a Fellow of the Indianapolis Bar Foundation, the Indiana State Bar Foundation, and the American Bar Foundation.

Fruehwald received a B.S., with highest distinction, from the University of Nebraska in 1968 and spent several years teaching mentally handicapped children in the Chicago public school system. She received her J.D. summa cum laude from the Indiana University School of Law in 1975 and joined Barnes & Thornburg that same year. She has been a partner since 1982.

The Alumnae Network is a forum for women graduates to connect with each other, current students and the law school community. Women graduates of IU Law - Indianapolis are a rapidly growing and dynamic group of individuals who have blazed trails for later generations of women and have excelled in all areas of legal expertise.

For more information about the Alumnae Network or to nominate someone for the Outstanding Alumna of the Year Award, please contact Angela Rager, ’99, Executive Director for the Alumnae Network at arrager@iupui.edu.

Previous Outstanding Alumna of the Year Award Recipients

2000	Virginia Dill McCarty, '50
2001	Shirley A. Shideler, '64
2002	Hon. Betty Barteau, '65
2003	Rebecca O. Kendall, '75
2004	Pamela L. Carter, '84
2005	Deborah K. Hepler, '94
2006	Susan W. Brooks, '85
2007	Susanah M. Mead, '76
2008	Sheila Suess Kennedy, '75
2009	Kristin G. Fruehwald, '75

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