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Longtime attorney and former judge Ruth Reichard is being featured in the Indiana Humanities “Write Now” series.
The program features writers associated with the Indiana Authors Awards.
Reichard is an Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law alumna.
According to the law school’s website, Reichard’s book “Blook and Steel: Ryan White, the AIDS Crisis and the Deindustrialization of Kokomo, Indiana” was published in 2021.
Her book was selected for the shortlist of honorees for the 2022 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Awards.
The book is an urban and social history that examines how two historical developments, the emergence of the AIDS pandemic and the ongoing deindustrialization of the Midwest, divided a community.
It is based on Reichard’s doctoral dissertation in U.S. History that she completed in 2015 at Indiana University.
Reichard was awarded a J.D. from IU McKinney in 1985. She has worked as a deputy prosecuting attorney in Marion County and was appointed by then-Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh as a judge of the Marion Municipal Courts.
She then went back to school to earn her Master of Arts in U.S. History from the IU School of Liberal Arts in 2008.
After she finished her doctorate, Reichard worked as a family violence resource attorney, a senior judge and then as an education attorney with the Indiana Office of Court Services.
Reichard currently is an assistant teaching professor and director of the legal studies program in the department of political science at Ball State University, according to the law school.
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