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Pam Carter, ’84, the first woman to lead any of Columbus, Indiana-based Cummins, Inc.’s four primary business units, is retiring effective April 1.

Carter will step down from her position as president of Cummins’ Distribution Business. She has been an executive with the company since 1997. She first served as the company’s vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. She then held several key posts in Cummins Fleetguard before leading Cummins Filtration. She moved to the Distribution Business Unit in 2007.

Earlier in her career, Carter was deputy chief of staff to then-Governor Evan Bayh, and spent some time in private practice at the firm then known as Baker & Daniels before running for elected office. Carter was elected Indiana Attorney General in 1993, holding the post until 1997. She was the first African American woman to hold the office of state attorney general in the United States.

Carter is a member of IU McKinney’s Board of Visitors, and received the Outstanding Alumna of the Year Award in 2004.