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IU McKinney Alumni and Student Among Executive Officers and Board of Marion County Bar Association
01/27/2017
The swearing-in ceremony for Executive Officers and members of the Board of Directors of the Marion County Bar Association (MCBA) took place on January 25 at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Of the 2017 Executive Officers, four of the five are graduates of the law school, and of the incoming Board of Directors, five of eight members are alumni of IU McKinney.
The Honorable Carr Darden, ’70, Senior Judge for the Indiana Court of Appeals, administered the oath to this year's leadership team following a welcome address from IU McKinney Dean Andrew R. Klein.
Executive officers are:
- Detra Lynn Mills, ’11, president. She is vice president of legal affairs at The Cellular Connection, LLC
- Carlton Martin, ’12, president-elect. He is a deputy public defender for the State of Indiana
- Julian Harrell, ’12, vice president. He is an associate at Faegre Baker Daniels
- Maurice Scott, ’12, treasurer. He is Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Office of Corporation Counsel for the city of Indianapolis
Members of the MCBA Board are:
- Roxana Bell, ’11, immediate past president. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at IU McKinney
- Amber Finley, ’11. She is an attorney in the Office of the Indiana Attorney General
- Richard Hailey, ’74. He is a partner at Ramey & Hailey
- Cassandra Bentley McNair, ’04. She is an Administrative Hearing Officer and Attorney in the Indiana Department of Revenue
- Natasha Nsambo is the president of the Black Law Students Association and a May 2017 juris doctor candidate.
MCBA was founded in 1925 and is an affiliate of the National Bar Association, which is the nation’s oldest and largest national network of predominately Black attorneys and judges with a membership of more than 65,000. MCBA has a membership of more than 200 individuals and more than 40 Life Members across the state.
“We strive to build bridges, not walls. We may be small,” Mills said of the MCBA’s membership after being sworn-in as president, “but we are mighty and we matter. We believe in a better future for all of us.”
In the photo from left are Roxana Bell, IU McKinney Dean Andrew R. Klein, Judge Carr Darden, and Detra Lynn Mills.
