Christine Hayes Hickey

Christine H. Hickey

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Career Highlights

Christine is a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association (President-2010; Board of Directors (2008-2011, 2006-2008, 2002-2004, 1999-2001), Bar Review Co-Chair; IBA Judicial Evaluation Political Action Committee Chair (2003-2006); Justice Center Task Force, Outreach Chair; Indianapolis Bar Foundation (President 2006-2008; Distinguished Fellow; former Development Committee Chair); National Conference of Bar Foundations (President, 2009-2010; Board of Directors, 2007-2011); National Conference of Bar Presidents (Executive Council, 2012; Sponsorship Committee Chair); Indiana State and American Bar Associations; Commercial Law League of America (Board of Governors (2007-2010); past Chair, National Education Committee; past Chair, Professional Responsibility National Committee; past Chair, Creditors' Rights Section; CRS Newsletter and Education Committees; former CRS Executive Council Member, Secretary, and Treasurer; former Young Member Section Executive Council Member; past Chair, Midwest Region Executive Council); Member of the Board of Directors, Shaw-Burckhardt-Brenner Foundation; Former Member, Board of Directors for the American Board of Certification, from which she is the only female attorney in Indiana certified in the area of creditors' rights law. Member: Indiana Supreme Court Docket Judgment Docket Task Force; Marion Circuit Court Small Claims Court Task Force; Indiana Supreme Court Ad Hoc Committee for E-Filing Rules. 

Practice Areas

• Creditors’ Rights 
• Commercial Litigation
• Commercial Collections

Professional Associations and Affiliations

• Indianapolis Bar Association
• Indianapolis Bar Foundation
• Indiana State and American Bar Associations
• Commercial Law League of America
• American Board of Certification
• National Conference of Bar Foundations
• National Conference of Bar Presidents
• Shaw-Burckhardt-Brenner Foundation
• Blessings in a Backpack, Program Coordinator Center Grove Schools

Professional Achievements

• Elected into the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation 2013
• 2012 National Conference of Bar Presidents Executive Council
• 2011, 2012, 2013 Selected to the Martindale-Hubbell^R Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers^TM
• 2010 President of Indianapolis Bar Association
• 2009-2010 President of National Conference of Bar Foundations
• A 2009 recipient of IBA President’s Award for Service to the Bar
• 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Named a Super Lawyer, which recognizes the top 5% of attorneys in the State of Indiana
• Named in the Top 25 Female Lawyers in the State of Indiana by Super Lawyers 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012 
• 2006-2008 President of Indianapolis Bar Foundation
• A 2005 recipient of IBA President’s Award for Service to the Profession
• Named one of the top ten finalists in 2005 by Indy’s Best and Brightest in the Law category
• 2003 recipient of the IBA Board of Managers’ Award 
• Indianapolis Bar Foundation Distinguished Fellow
• Creditors’ Rights Certification by American Board of Certification, 2001
• Only female certified in Indiana in Creditor's Rights by the American Board of Certification since 2001 
• Best Article Award, Res Gestae, 1996

Education and Bar Admission

• Indiana State Bar
• U.S. District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana
• Indiana University School of Law, magna cum laude, 1993
• Purdue University, 1988

Presentations/Publications/CLE

• Speaker, The Importance of Credit Terms, NACM Spring Conference, 2012. 
• Speaker, Effective Leadership, American Bar Association Bar Leader Institute, 2012.
• Speaker, Indiana Spring Judicial Conference, Judgments and Collections, 2012.
• Developing a Successful Collection Practice, ICLEF, 2009
• I Have a Judgment, Now What? Indianapolis Bar Association, 2009 
• Transforming Debt to Judgment, National Business Institute, 2007
• Collections, “Fair Debt Collection Practices Act”, ICLEF, 2006 
• Collection Tips: Telling the Old and New from the Tried and True, Indianapolis Bar Association, 2006
• Indiana State Law Update on Collections, 2005
• Turning Judgments Into Green, Compliance With the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, ICLEF, 2003
• Collections: Show Me the Money (Part II), ICLEF, 2001, seminar Chair
• Introduction to Collection Law in Indiana, Lorman Education Services, 2000, 2001
• The Best Defense is No Defense: Article 2A and the Finance Lease, CLLA, Creditors' Rights Section Free Press, 1999
• Spousal Avoidance Powers: Regulation B As a Defense, CLLA, Creditors' Rights Section Free Press, 1998
• Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Commercial and Bankruptcy Law Seminar, 1997
• "Collecting From the Creative Debtor: Actions for Fraudulent Conveyances and Successor Liability Within a Proceedings Supplemental," ICLEF, 1997 (Collections: Show Me the Money, Seminar Chair)
• "Complying With the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act," Res Gestae, 1996, Best Article Award 1995-96
• "Planning Your First Collections Through Post-Judgment," ICLEF, 1996
• "Collecting Your Judgments," ICLEF, 1995
• "Lien & Bond Claims Against Federal State and Local Projects," ICLEF, 1994

Christine H. Hickey with Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.