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IU McKinney Professor Fran Quigley, ’87, received the 2022 Gerald L. Bepko Community Medallion during the annual meeting of the IUPUI Senior Academy on June 2.

Professor Quigley is a clinical professor of law at IU McKinney where he teaches in the Health and Human Rights Clinic. The clinic recently received a grant from the Herbert Simon Family Foundation to support its work on behalf of tenants facing eviction. It’s a cause Professor Quigley and his students turned the focus of their work toward during the COVID-19 pandemic.

IU McKinney’s Health and Human Rights Clinic students advocate for the rights of the poor, with a focus on individual and systemic barriers to accessing healthcare and the social determinants of health. Professor Quigley’s latest book, Religious Socialism: Faith in Action for a Better World, was published in September 2021. He is the author of several academic journal articles on social justice and human rights, multiple mass media articles and columns, and five books including this most recent work. Prior to his work at the law school, he served as the first Chief of Staff for Congresswoman Julia Carson and as the executive director of ACLU of Indiana.  He edits the newsletter Faith in Healthcare and contributes to and helps edit the publications of the Religious Socialism working group of the Democratic Socialists of America.