{"id":13516,"date":"2025-02-24T11:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=13516"},"modified":"2025-02-24T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T16:42:22","slug":"indiana-chief-justice-rush-to-headline-next-presidential-lecture-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2025\/Q1\/indiana-chief-justice-rush-to-headline-next-presidential-lecture-event","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Chief Justice Rush to headline next Presidential Lecture event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush, a Purdue University alumna and longtime Tippecanoe County resident, will return to campus March 25 to join Purdue President Mung Chiang for a conversation as part of the Presidential Lecture Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rush\u2019s Presidential Lecture appearance, titled \u201cState Courts as Engines of Economic Development, Public Safety and Access to Justice,\u201d is at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in the Purdue Memorial Union\u2019s North Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public, but a general admission ticket<\/a> will be required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith a bachelor\u2019s degree in history from Purdue in hand, Loretta Rush has gone on to become a leader in the world of jurisprudence, rising to the role of chief justice of Indiana,\u201d Chiang said. \u201cThat was after an impressive career as an attorney, a Tippecanoe County judge and a reform advocate in the juvenile court system while contributing to the creation of the county\u2019s Court Appointed Special Advocate program, which looks out for the interests of abused and neglected children. We look forward to her return to the Purdue campus for this special Presidential Lecture appearance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As chief justice, Rush supervises Indiana\u2019s judicial branch, a role that includes working with the state legislature to secure funding and allocate resources appropriately. Rush also oversees a multiagency central administrative office that handles everything from caseload measures and technology updates to the admission and discipline of lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Judicial Nominating Commission selected Rush as the first female chief justice of Indiana in August 2014, and she was reappointed in 2019 and 2024. She was first named Indiana\u2019s 108th Supreme Court justice in November 2012 after being appointed by then-Gov. Mitch Daniels. Voters retained her in 2014 and again in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rush received the Purdue University Distinguished Alumni Award<\/a> in 2015 with induction into the Boiler Business Exchange Hall of Fame. She also gave the commencement address<\/a> at Purdue\u2019s winter graduation ceremonies in December 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is past president of the Conference of Chief Justices and was named the 2018 Indiana Chamber of Commerce Government Leader of the Year. She also served as co-chair of the National Judicial Opioid Task Force and as an executive committee member on the National Judicial Task Force to Examine State Courts\u2019 Response to Mental Illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, Rush was appointed by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction and continues to serve in that role. Rush also was recently elected as a member of the American Law Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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