Presidential Lecture Series: Loretta Rush

Indiana Chief Justice Loretta Rush, a Purdue University alumna and longtime Tippecanoe County resident, will return to campus March 25 to join Purdue President Mung Chiang for a conversation as part of the Presidential Lecture Series.

Rush’s Presidential Lecture appearance, titled “State Courts as Engines of Economic Development, Public Safety and Access to Justice,” is at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in the Purdue Memorial Union’s North Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public, but a general admission ticket will be required.

A Purdue alumna, Rush was named Indiana’s 108th Supreme Court justice in November 2012 after being appointed by then-Gov. Mitch Daniels. She was retained by voters in 2014 and 2024. The Judicial Nominating Commission named Rush the first female chief justice of Indiana in August 2014, and she was reappointed in 2019 and 2024.