Theodore Reed Boehm (born September 12, 1938) served as a justice of the

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. Currently, he is a partner of Hoover Hull Turner LLP, an Indianapolis law firm. Justice Boehm attended public schools in Indianapolis, Indiana. He graduated from

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in 1960, summa cum laude, and from

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in 1963, magna cum laude. While attending Brown he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. At Harvard, he was an editor of the

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. After graduating, Justice Boehm served as a law clerk to Chief Justice

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and retired Justices Stanley Reed and Harold Burton during the 1963 term of the United States Supreme Court. In 1964, he joined the Indianapolis law firm of

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, where he became a partner in 1970 and managing partner in 1980. He is a member of the

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. After serving as a general counsel for General Electric and

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from 1988 to 1995, he returned to Baker & Daniels before his appointment to the court. Justice Boehm was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court by then-Governor Evan Bayh on August 7, 1996. On November 4, 2008 the public voted to keep Boehm on the court in a statewide retention election. On May 25, 2010, Justice Boehm announced that he would retire from the Court on September 30, 2010. He then served as a Senior Judge for the Court of Appeals of Indiana from October 1, 2010 to December 30, 2010. Thereafter, Justice Boehm arbitrated and mediated complex business cases. On March 16, 2015, Justice Boehm announced that he would join the law firm of Hoover Hull Turner LLP as a partner. There, he continues his alternative dispute resolution practice and advises clients on a wide range of legal issues and appellate practice. Justice Boehm was Chairman and CEO of the organizing committee for the 1987

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in Indianapolis, and was the first President and CEO of Indiana Sports Corporation, which staged the 1982

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. He was also President of the Penrod Society and one of the principal organizers of the Economic Club of Indianapolis. He is a Trustee Emeritus of Brown University, a director of Metropolitan Indianapolis Public Broadcasting, Inc., Indiana Humanities, Inc., and The Economic Club of Indiana, Inc. He served on the Nominating and Governance Committee of the United States Olympic Committee 2003-10 (Chair 2003-07). He was Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee for the

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in Indianapolis and was Chair of the Indianapolis Cultural Development Commission 2002-10.

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