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IU McKinney Law Professor of Practice Janet McCabe, Director of the IU Environmental Resilience Institute, is among the women named to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s 2019 “Women of Influence” list.

Leslie Craig Henderzahs, ’90, owner/partner at Church Church Hittle + Atrium, was also featured on the list. She was recently inducted as president of the 10,000-member Indiana State Bar Association and is a fellow of the Indiana Bar Foundation. She also serves on the Indiana Supreme Court’s Indiana Innovation Initiative Family Law Taskforce.

The annual list includes women from diverse fields who are shaping Indiana’s business, educational, artistic and philanthropic landscape. They were honored at an event on October 31 at the Indiana Roof Ballroom.

"We are so pleased that Janet and Leslie are being recognized, and deservedly so, as 'Women of Influence,'" said Andrew R. Klein, Dean and Paul E. Beam Professor of Law at IU McKinney School of Law.

Professor McCabe (above, with Dean Klein, at the IBJ Women of Influence event) joined the IU McKinney faculty in 2017, after serving as the Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation at the United States Environmental Protection Agency since 2013. She was nominated by President Barack Obama to be Assistant Administrator of that office.

“Janet is a powerful advocate, someone who has spent her career working to advance policies to better protect healthy, clean air and the environment. We are so fortunate to have someone of her stature here at IU McKinney. We’re thrilled that she is being recognized for her influence in our community, the state of Indiana, and beyond.”

She joined EPA in November 2009, serving as the Principal Deputy to the Assistant Administrator of OAR. She played a lead role in framing, shaping and implementing Clean Air Act standards, including the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards and the Clean Power Plan and Ozone standards.

Prior to joining EPA in November 2009, McCabe was Executive Director of Improving Kids’ Environment, Inc., a children’s environmental health advocacy organization based in Indianapolis, Indiana and was an adjunct faculty member at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health, and at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. 

From 1993 to 2005, Professor McCabe held several leadership positions in the Indiana Department of Environmental Management’s Office of Air Quality and was the office’s Assistant Commissioner from 1998 to 2005.

Before coming to Indiana in 1993, Professor McCabe served as Assistant Attorney General for environmental protection for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Assistant Secretary for Environmental Impact Review. She grew up in Washington, D.C. and graduated from Harvard College in 1980 and Harvard Law School in 1983.