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Allison Barber is the president and chief operating officer of the Indiana Fever, Indiana's WNBA franchise. [1] Previously, she served as the Chancellor of Western Governors University Indiana, president of Sodenta, an adjunct at Georgetown University, [2] and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Internal Communications in the United States Department of Defense. [3]
Barber went to Hammond Baptist High School and studied education at Tennessee Temple University. She earned a master of science in education at Indiana University Bloomington and a doctorate of leadership at Tennessee Temple University. [4]
Barber is the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Sagamore Institute. She was also named by Indiana Governor, Eric Holcomb, to the board of the Indiana Destination Development Corporation. [5] She also serves on the advisory board of the Elizabeth Dole Foundation. [6] In addition, Barber continues to serve as an American Red Cross volunteer.[ citation needed ]
Barber was named Nonprofit Communicator of the Year by PR News, [7] as well as a "Woman of Influence" by the Indianapolis Business Journal . [8]
Barber was presented the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service by Secretary Rumsfeld. [9]
Barber received the Sagamore of the Wabash, presented by Governor Eric Holcomb, who described it as the "highest award in Indiana". [10]
John Morton-Finney was an American civil rights activist, lawyer, and educator who earned eleven academic degrees, including five law degrees. He spent most of his career as an educator and lawyer after serving from 1911 to 1914 in the U.S. Army as a member of the 24th Infantry Regiment, better known as the Buffalo soldiers, and with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I. Morton-Finney taught languages at Fisk University in Tennessee and at Lincoln University in Missouri, before moving to Indianapolis, Indiana, where he taught in the Indianapolis Public Schools for forty-seven years. Morton-Finney was a member of the original faculty at Indianapolis's Crispus Attucks High School when it opened in 1927 and later became head of its foreign language department. He also taught at Shortridge High School and at other IPS schools. Morton-Finney was admitted as a member of the Bar of the Indiana Supreme Court in 1935, as a member of the Bar of the U.S. District Court in 1941, and was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972.
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