Kevin S. Smith

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317.572.1609
Matthew S. Skelton
Frederick Sprunger

Education

  • Indiana University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude
  • Indiana University, B.S., with high distinction

Bar Admissions

  • Indiana State Bar Association
  • U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
  • U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Indiana

Awards + Recognition

  • Certified Christian Conciliator™

Professional Memberships

  • Indiana State Bar Association, Appellate Practice Section
  • Hamilton County Bar Membership
  • Indianapolis Bar Association, Appellate Practice Section
  • Christian Legal Society

About Kevin

Kevin joined the firm in June 2016 and for many years served CCHA clients in the areas of labor and employment law, appellate litigation, and general trial litigation. Kevin’s now focuses his time in the firm's Mediation practice. He is a Registered Indiana Civil Mediator and one of only a few Hoosiers to have completed the rigorous training requirements necessary to be certified by the Institute for Christian Conciliation as a Certified Christian Conciliator™. He has a particular passion for and giftedness in helping people in conflict find mutually agreeable solutions and, where possible and desired, relational reconciliation.

Before joining the firm, Kevin served Hoosiers for more than a decade as both the Clerk of the Indiana Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and Tax Court, and the Indiana Supreme Court Administrator, managing 28 employees and gaining invaluable insight into the inner workings of Indiana’s Judicial Branch and its three highest courts. He also worked extensively on interpretations of and revisions to the Indiana Rules of Appellate Procedure, the Indiana Admission and Discipline Rules, and the Indiana Administrative Rules; led a multi-discipline team of public and private practitioners, court staff, and IT professionals in planning and implementing Indiana’s appellate e-filing initiative; taught numerous seminars on appellate procedure; and oversaw the Supreme Court’s legal and administrative caseload of approximately 1,000 matters per year and its transition from paper to electronic records.

Kevin graduated magna cum laude from the Indiana University Mauer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana, where he finished third in his class of 200. While in law school he served as President of the school’s Christian Legal Society chapter and as an Editor on the Indiana Law Journal and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. After graduating, he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Randall T. Shepard, Chief Justice of Indiana, and then to the Honorable Alice M. Batchelder, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Kevin and his wife of more than 30 years live in Carmel and have two adult children. When not working, he usually can be found at College Park Church, where he serves in its adult special needs, visitation, transportation, and Biblical counseling ministries and leads an intensive, year-long discipling program that he developed. He volunteers in various capacities with Joni & Friends international disabilities ministry and as a trail maintenance volunteer at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. When he has a quiet moment, he enjoys spending time with his family, watching the Kansas City Royals and Chiefs and IU basketball, studying theology, traveling, backpacking, good books and movies, taking long walks with his two Shelties, and listening to a wide variety of music.