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Stevie Pactor

Senior Staff Attorney

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Bio

Stevie presently serves as a Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU of Indiana. She began her legal career as a law clerk to the late Judge Michael Kanne of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and later joined Sidley Austin LLP’s complex commercial litigation group in San Francisco. She came back to her Hoosier roots to serve as a law clerk to Judges Tanya Walton Pratt and Jane Magnus-Stinson of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. In her pre-lawyer life, Stevie worked as a Central Asia program officer for the United States Department of State. She speaks French (pretty well), Uzbek (decently), and Russian (poorly). She currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, is President of the Board of the Indiana Federal Community Defenders, and is a board member of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation.

Stevie is a 2014 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and she holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington.

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What Indiana’s Latest Abortion Ruling Means, and How We Got Here

Earlier this month, a major ruling on Indiana’s abortion ban resulted in a permanent injunction protecting people seeking abortion care in accordance with their sincerely held religious beliefs. Learn more about what this means and how we got here.