Awards

IU Indianapolis Spirit of Philanthropy Award - 2000

About Amy Elson

Amy Elson is currently the Assistant Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health at the Robert H. McKinney School of Law. She graduated from the IU Mauer School of Law with a J.D. in 1998. After working for three years as an associate attorney specializing in insurance defense and business litigation, Elson returned to Indiana University—Bloomington to pursue a Ph.D. in United States History. During her time as a graduate student, she taught classes in Law, Culture & Society, United States Legal History, and United States History. From 2003-2007, she served as the Academic Advisor for IUB’s Liberal Arts and Management Program (LAMP).

In 2008, Elson returned to practicing law with a focus on consumer bankruptcy litigation and later enhanced her litigation experience by representing creditors in state and federal secured creditor litigation. She returned to the world of higher education, student academic affairs and academic administration in 2011 when she became the Honors Program Coordinator at Butler University, where her responsibilities included guiding students through the University-wide Honors Program, assisting students with completion of their undergraduate honors theses, administering the conferral of commencement honors, and developing curricular and co-curricular programming within the University Honors Program.