Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series alumnae, board members named to 2025 IBJ 250 list

INDIANAPOLIS – The Indianapolis Business Journal today announced eight Lugar Series women as 2025 honorees of the IBJ 250.

Since 2022, the IBJ 250 has recognized the most influential and impactful Hoosier leaders in industries such as civic leadership, government, education, philanthropy and law.

The 2025 honorees include:

• Claudia Cummings, Class of 1996-1997

• Anne Hathaway, Executive Director

• Deana Haworth, Class of 2019-2020

• Suzanne Jaworowski, Class of 2015-2016

• Katie Jenner, Class of 2018-2019

• Lawren Mills, Class of 2008-2009, Board Member & Former Board President

• Melissa Proffitt, Class of 1995-1996, Former Board Member & Former Board President

• Mel Raines, Former Board Member

To learn more about The Lugar Series, visit www.lugarseries.com.

To read the full list of IBJ 250 honorees, visit www.indiana250.com.

About the Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series

Inspired by the late Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, the Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series was established in 1990 as a not-for-profit women’s leadership development program designed to increase the preparation, influence and number of Republican women in local, state and national elective and appointive offices.

To date, the Lugar Series has trained 644 Hoosier women and has produced exceptional new party leaders, public board and commission members, political operatives, and elected officials from mayors and legislators to state executive office holders. Since 1990, the program model has been replicated to create excellence programs across the country with over 2,000 graduates nationwide.

For more information about The Lugar Series, contact Anne Hathaway at [email protected] or visit www.LugarSeries.com