Ann O'Connor McCready

Ann currently serves as the partner co-chair of the Indianapolis Women of Taft affinity group. Locally, Ann has been involved with the Integrating Women Leaders Foundation and in 2020, she served as co-chair of the planning committee for IWL’s annual conference. Ann also serves on the Executive Leadership Team for Dress for Success’s Stepping Out In Style event, and she is an ambassador for American Cancer Society’s ResearcHERS: Women Fighting Cancer campaign. While in Chicago, Ann served on the Leadership Committee of the Women Employed Advocacy Council, a group of young professionals working to advance the objectives of Women Employed as it strives to expand educational and employment opportunities for working women. Involvement in the legal profession is also particularly important to Ann, and she is active in both the Indiana State Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

In addition to her legal experience, prior to law school, Ann worked at the strategic communications firm APCO Worldwide in Washington, D.C., where she frequently worked with in-house counsel to manage reputation risk and communication strategies stemming from large-scale litigation.

Ann graduated from George Washington University, magna cum laude, with a degree in journalism and earned her J.D., cum laude, from Indiana University Maurer School of Law. During law school, she served as the editor-in-chief of the Federal Communications Law Journal and as a law clerk for the Honorable E. Michael Hoff on the Monroe County Circuit Court. Ann has been recognized by her peers for her accomplishments and is recognized as one of the "Ones to Watch" by Best Lawyers in America® for commercial litigation. She was named an Illinois Rising Star in 2014 and 2015 and has been an Indiana Rising Star since 2017. Ann was also recognized by the Indianapolis Business Journal as a Forty Under 40 honoree in 2021, by The Indiana Lawyer's Leadership in Law Awards as an Up and Coming Lawyer in 2018, and was a finalist in the law category for the 2020 Indy's Best and Brightest Awards.