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Former U.S. Representative Susan Brooks, ’85, will join former Indiana Governor and U.S. Senator Evan Bayh to discuss the upcoming primary elections. The event will take place April 11 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the IUPUI Campus Center.

Brooks and Bayh, both of whom are current faculty members at IU, will talk about their paths to elected office, what the experience was like, and how they balanced their personal and professional lives.

Brooks joined the law school in fall 2021 as distinguished scholar and ambassador at large. Among her various roles, Brooks co-taught a course on law and leadership with former dean and Paul E. Beam Professor of Law Andrew R. Klein. Brooks represented Indiana's 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2013 to 2021, serving on the Energy and Commerce Committee, as chair of the House Ethics Committee, as co-chair of the Bipartisan Women's Caucus and as a member of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.

Prior to her service in Congress, Brooks was general counsel and senior vice president for workforce and economic development at Ivy Tech Community College. In 2001, she was appointed U. S. attorney for the Southern District of Indiana by President George W. Bush, serving six years at that post.

She has also worked in the Government Services Practice Group at the law firm of Ice Miller and served two years as deputy mayor of Indianapolis under Mayor Stephen Goldsmith, focusing on crime, the criminal justice system and social welfare issues. Brooks began her career as a criminal defense lawyer, working for 13 years with the law firm McClure, McClure and Kammen.