Author: Rotary Club of Indianapolis

Join us on Tuesday to hear from Thomas M. Fisher. Mr. Fisher has served as an Indiana Deputy Attorney General since February 2001, and was named Indiana’s first Solicitor General in July 2005. In that role he handles high profile litigation for the State, defends state statutes against constitutional attack, advises the Attorney General on a range of legal policy issues, and manages the State’s U.S. Supreme Court docket.

A two-time recipient of the National Association of Attorneys General Best Brief Award for excellence in U.S. Supreme Court brief writing, Fisher has argued four times before the High Court, including this term in Timbs v. Indiana. is U.S. Supreme Court practice has also included authorship of dozens of cert-stage and merits-stage amicus curiae briefs on a wide range of issues, including jury impeachment, federal preemption, legislative prayer, public Ten Commandments displays, the definition of marriage, abortion regulation, right to trial by jury, habeas corpus, and federal taxpayer standing, among many others. 

In addition, Fisher has argued dozens of important and high profile cases before both the Indiana Supreme Court and the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, including successful defenses of Indiana’s choice scholarship program, its popular telephone privacy laws, and its alcohol distribution regulations. Other argued cases have included constitutional defense of abortion regulations, parental rights laws, judicial speech canons, Medicaid statutes, the definition of marriage, state toll road leasing, and public school funding, among many other subjects. In 2018, Fisher was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.

All are welcome at Rotary programs. The lunch buffet opens at Ivy Tech Culinary and Conference Center at 11:45 a.m. and the program runs 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. See you there! 

Join us on Tuesday as we hear from fellow Rotarian Grant Mendenhall, Special Agent in Charge for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Indianapolis Division. He will give us an overview of FBI priorities and focus in the State of Indiana.

Mr. Mendenhall joined the FBI as a special agent in 1990 and was first assigned to the Milwaukee Division, Kenosha Resident Agency, where he worked violent crime and gang investigations.

Throughout his career, Mr. Mendenhall has held leadership positions in the Salt Lake City Division, the Washington Field Office, as the FBI on-scene commander in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as the deputy legal attaché in Baghdad, Iraq, as deputy director for law enforcement as the Joint Interagency Task Force-National Capital Region, and in the Counterterrorism Division.

Mr. Mendenhall is an Indiana native and a 1986 Ball State University graduate.

All are welcome at Rotary programs. The lunch buffet opens at Ivy Tech Culinary and Conference Center at 11:45 a.m. and the program runs 12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. See you there!