Weissmann, Leanna: -
Leanna K. Weissmann is a native of Aurora, IN. She was appointed to the Court of Appeals of Indiana by Governor Holcomb in September 2020.
She graduated from Indiana University-Bloomington in 1991, with a double major in journalism and English, and then earned her law degree from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis in 1994.
From 1993-95, she clerked for Court of Appeals Judge Robert D. Rucker (now-retired Justice Rucker of the Indiana Supreme Court). Judge Weissmann then engaged in the private practice of law in Rising Sun, IN, until 1998 and served as Referee of Dearborn Superior Court 1 from 2000-07.
From 1998-2020, she ran a solo law practice in Lawrenceburg, IN, focused entirely on appellate practice. She has argued several times before the Court of Appeals of Indiana and the Indiana Supreme Court. In 2018, Judge Weissmann obtained a reversal for a client through the United States Supreme Court on the issue of cell phone privacy rights.
In 2013, the Indiana Supreme Court appointed her as a commissioner to the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission, where she served for 10 years.
Schulz, Abigael: -
Abigael Schulz has always been one to make her own path, despite first-year law students being told not to get jobs because their focus should only be on the texts. During that first year, she became an indoor cycling instructor at a local gym, which became a solitude from her studies and a way to cultivate her creative interests.
Abbey's path as a social justice leader began in Indiana but has taken her all over the world and the United States, including a semester in Norway, a month in Jamaica, and a gap year in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her and her husband's love of the outdoors and sense of adventure brought them out West, where, at just shy of thirty years old, they learned how to properly ski. Abbey hopes her passions will continue to take her around the world, meeting new people and hearing their stories whether by bike, kayak, plane, or ski.
