Taft partner Lacy Johnson leads 2024 class of Diversity in Law honorees
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Indiana Lawyer is pleased to announce its 2024 class of Diversity in Law honorees, including this year’s Diversity Trailblazer, Lacy Johnson.
The Diversity in Law program recognizes attorneys and judges who actively work to promote different forms of diversity within the legal profession.
Johnson, a partner at Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, leads the 2024 group as the Diversity Trailblazer, the highest Diversity in Law honor that recognizes an attorney who has excelled in their commitment to diversity and who has inspired others to do the same.
Additional 2024 honorees include:
- Zechariah L. Banks, Dentons Bingham Greenebaum LLP
- Sharon Barner, Cummins
- Kate Erdel, Dentons
- Greg Fehribach, Fehribach Group
- Angela Freeman, Barnes and Thornburg LLP
- Judge Ryan K. Gardner, Marion Superior Court 10 – Family Division
- Judge Charnette Garner, Marion Superior Court
- MacAna Gilkerson, IU McKinney School of Law Accessibility and Equity Student Union
- Burnell K. Grimes Jr., Carrier Global Corporation
- Julian E. Harrell, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Karrah A. Herring, Office of the Governor
- LaToya Tamika Highsaw, Paganelli Law Group
- Kenneth Inskeep, Barnes and Thornburg LLP
- Shontrai D. Irving, Purdue University Northwest
- Katie Jackson-Lindsay, Jackson Legal Services
- Chou-il Lee, Taft
- Stacy Walton Long, Kreig DeVault LLP
- Shamika Mazyck, Quarles and Brady LLP
- Dawn R. Rosemond, Barnes and Thornburg LLP
- Max Siegel, USA Track & Field
- Freedom Smith, Ice Miller
- Angela Smith Jones, J.D., Indiana University
- Judge Stephanie Steele, St. Joseph Superior Court
- Finis Tatum IV, Hoover Hull Turner LLP
- Brett Thomas, Cohen and Malad.
All honorees will be recognized at an awards breakfast on Oct. 2. They will also be featured in the Oct. 9 issue of Indiana Lawyer and the Oct. 11 issue of Indianapolis Business Journal.