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Melissa Proffitt, J.D. ’85, has been selected as the 31^st recipient of the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Michael A. Carroll award. Proffitt is the partner-in-charge of client relations at Ice Miller, where she has spent her entire legal career.

Proffitt has served on the boards of dozens of community organizations and helped with numerous civic events and Republican political campaigns. Her achievements include more than a dozen trade missions with Governors Mitch Daniels and Eric Holcomb and former Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard and membership on boards such as the WNBA All-Star 2025 Host Committee, Indy Chamber (which she chaired in 2022-2023), the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee, the Race and Cultural Relations Leadership Network and vice chair of the Indiana Black Expo.

A cum laude graduate of IU McKinney, Proffitt is the founder and chair of Ice Miller’s Food and Agribusiness Group, and the founder and chair of its Energy Group. She also is responsible for the firm’s business development initiatives. She serves as a member of IU McKinney’s Board of Visitors.