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At a specially convened meeting on December 10th 2009, the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Indiana overwhelmingly voted to appoint Gilbert Holmes, ‘99 as Executive Director.

Holmes has served as Interim Executive Director for the past year. Prior to that, he held senior executive positions at IndyGo, the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and Clarian Health. He served for twenty years in the U.S. Army before attending law school. After being selected for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, and for attendance at the prestigious Command and General Staff College, he chose to retire. He is a decorated veteran of the Viet-Nam War.

“Gil has an invaluable combination of wisdom about the community, devotion to civil liberties, and the willingness to tell the ACLU’s story to the state of Indiana,” said Cathy Gibson, president of the Board of Directors. “He knows how to raise money, manage our resources, and keep our focus on the important work of protecting Hoosiers’ liberties,” she added.

“I’m looking forward to speaking with Hoosiers all over the state about our work,” said Holmes. “We’re a non-partisan organization, devoted to the freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. I think that makes us both liberal and conservative, and I invite everyone to take a close look at what we do and what we stand for.”
Holmes’ predecessors as Executive Director include graduates of IU School of Law Indianapolis such as Claudia Porretti, ’06, Fran Quigley, ’87, and Sheila Suess Kennedy, ’75.