Gov. Mitch Daniels to Deliver Law School Commencement Address

INDIANAPOLIS – Words of wisdom from the state’s top official will mark the end of school for one new cadre of legal eagles.

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels will deliver the keynote address for the 2006 spring commencement services for the IU School of Law-Indianapolis. The service will take place at 5:15 p.m. on Sunday, May 14 in the west end of the Sagamore Ballroom at the Indiana Convention Center.

“We are very pleased and proud to have Governor Mitch Daniels as our keynote speaker for the event. I know it will be a day our graduates and their families will remember,” said Susanah M. Mead, interim dean of the IU School of Law-Indianapolis.

The May 14 speech will be Daniel’s second commencement address at the law school which is located on the IUPUI campus. During the school’s 1986 ceremony Daniels, then a political and intergovernmental affairs assistant to President Ronald Reagan, presented the keynote address.

Daniels completed his first year of law school at IU School of Law-Indianapolis before completing his law education at Georgetown University Law Center. He is also a graduate of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Before becoming governor in 2004, Daniels was director of the Office of Management and Budget; and president of Eli Lilly’s North American operations.

About 330 students are expected to receive either law or master of law degrees during the commencement exercise. Law school Professors Larrie Wilkins and George Wright will perform the hooding ceremony for the graduates.