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A total of four alumni of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law have been named to the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 class for 2021: IU McKinney’s Assistant Director of Student Recruitment Lauren Peña, ’13; Hall Render attorney Colleen M. Powers, ’07; Assistant General Counsel at Toyota Industries North America Jennifer M. Triplett, ’09, and General Counsel at Hurco Companies Jonathon D. Wright, ’10. In addition, Ryan Vaughn, ’03, president of the Indiana Sports Corp, received the inaugural Forty Under 40 Alumni Award.

Peña has served at IU McKinney for seven years. She is currently part of the sixth round of the Next Generation 2.0 leadership development program at IUPUI. Peña has served on IU McKinney’s diversity committee, admissions committee, and over a dozen hiring committees. On the IUPUI campus, she has taken part in several leadership experiences, including the IUPUI Data Inquiry Group, the Graduate Recruiting Salesforce Taskforce, and she presented at the IUPUI Graduate Recruitment Conference. Outside of her leadership activities, she has lectured in several educational capacities, served as a Class Agent for the IU McKinney Class of 2013, and co-published scholarly articles with faculty members. Additionally, Peña serves the Indianapolis community as board secretary for ArtSpeak, Inc. and as a board member for accessAbility, Inc., and is a board member of the Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council.

Powers is an attorney at Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman, where she advises some of the nation’s largest health systems, physician group practices, and health care management organizations. She has been named in the Indiana Super Lawyer Rising Stars for several years, and listed in the Top Healthcare Transactions Lawyers by the Ambulatory M&A Advisor.

Tripplett began her career at Toyota as senior counsel in 2015 and held that post for three years before becoming assistant general counsel in 2019. Previous to this, she worked at Baldwin & Lyons, first as a compliance analyst and then as legal counsel and supervising legal counsel.

Wright began his career in private practice, working at Carson LLP in Fort Wayne and then Dentons Bingham Greenbaum before moving into his role as general counsel at Hurco Companies. Wright was a joint-degree student, receiving a Master of Business Administration degree from the Kelley School of Business the same year he graduated from IU McKinney.

Vaughn has served as president of Indiana Sports Corp for seven years and is the sixth person to hold that post since the organization was founded in 1979. Prior to this role, he served as chief of staff for then-Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard, and as an attorney at Barnes & Thornburg.