The Distinguished Service Award was established in 1997 to recognize graduates of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law who have distinguished themselves in service to their communities and the school in ways far exceeding traditional business, professional, and civic duties. Through their hard work, passion, and accomplishments, these alumni define Indiana Law's ideals for community service and serve as accomplished role models for our Law School and the greater community.
The Distinguished Service Award
2023 DSA recipients
- Macey Levan '11
Associate Professor of Surgery and Population Health
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
New York, New York - Dave Milne '94
Chief HR Officer and Chief Administrative Officer
Natus Medical, Inc.
Lakewood Ranch, Florida - Kimberly Richardson '06
Of Counsel, Conn Maciel Carey (Washington, D.C.)
Adjunct Professor, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law (Philadelphia)
Wilmington, Delaware - Alex Thibodeau '18
Director of Appointments
Office of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Macey Levan '11 is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery and Population Health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and the Director of the Center for Surgical and Transplant Applied Research Qualitative Core at the NYU Langone Transplant Institute. She has authored 100+ publications in top medical and scientific journals, and her team is comprised of renowned world experts who collectively, have secured millions in research funding from federal agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense for clinical research. Her team’s work to operationalize vaccination trials for the immunocompromised during the COVID-19 pandemic was applauded and recognized by Dr. Fauci. Before joining the NYU faculty in 2022, she was tenure-track faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where she served as the Director of Policy and External Affairs for a $100M grant-funded transplant research enterprise, which was known as the largest and most prolific in the world. Macey is proud to be the fourth member of her family to attend the Maurer School of Law.
Dave Milne '94, grew up in Fort Wayne. He attended Wabash College on a Lilly Fellowship and graduated with a B.A. in English in 1989. He earned an M.A. in English from Indiana University in 1990 and a J.D. from the Law School in 1994. Dave began his legal career at Bose McKinney & Evans and then practiced for several years at Scopelitis, Garvin, Light, Hanson & Feary before joining Steak n Shake, Inc., where he became Vice President and General Counsel. In 2009, Dave joined Symmetry Medical, Inc., where he worked as General Counsel, Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Compliance Officer. Following Symmetry Medical’s sale, he remained with a former division, Symmetry Surgical Inc., as General Counsel and SVP of Business Development. After Symmetry Surgical’s sale in 2022, he joined Natus Medical, Inc., an ArchiMed Portfolio Company, as Chief HR Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. Dave and his wife, Meagan (McAuley) Milne, met when they were students at the Law School and will soon celebrate their 28th wedding anniversary.
Kimberly Richardson '06, is a strategic business leader and forward-thinking health, safety, and security attorney, skilled in helping large, complex organizations reduce risks in the United States and abroad. Kimberly currently serves as Of Counsel at Conn Maciel Carey in Washington, DC., an Adjunct Professor at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, PA, and a consultant for the Wilmington University School of Law in Delaware. Previously, Kimberly worked in-house at Amazon Web Services and DuPont, and in the federal government. Kimberly serves on the Indiana University Maurer School of Law Alumni Board, the Advisory Board for the Delaware Chapter of the National Alliance of Mental Illness, and the Board of Directors for the Delaware Chapter of the National Audobon Society. She previously served as a member of the Legal Steering Committee for the National Safety Council. In 2008, The Network Journal named her one of the nation’s top 40 Under Forty African-Americans, and in 2012, she received the United States Postmaster General’s D.R.I.V.E Award (Delivering Results, Innovation, Value, and Efficiency).
Alex Thibodeau '18, is a Partner at Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP in Indianapolis, IN. His practice includes all aspects of real estate transactions, focusing largely on real estate development, including sales and financing. Mark has played an integral role in the financing, development and construction of high-profile, billion-dollar projects involving Fortune 100 corporations, automotive companies, sports franchises and utility companies. Mark also represents clients in a wide variety of real estate leasing transactions (including build-to-suit projects) from both the landlord and the tenant perspective.
Selection Criteria
- The nature of the service rendered by the nominee may include, but is not limited to: exemplifying the spirit of volunteerism, furthering humanitarian causes; rendering pro bono services in the nominee’s area of expertise; serving with distinction on community-based boards; actively fostering citizenship; or serving his or her community, state, or country in some exceptional and distinctive manner.
- The nominee must have received a degree from the IU Maurer School of Law.
- The nominee must agree to be present at the award ceremony.
- Current officers of the Indiana Law Alumni Board (President, President-Elect, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer) are not eligible for this award.