Susan Bayh

Infobox_Person
name = Susan Bayh
birth_date = birth date and age|1959|11|28
education = B.A.;
J.D.
occupation = Professional Board Member
residence = Indianapolis, Indiana
nationality = American

Susan Breshears Bayh (born November 28 1959) is an Indiana attorney and the wife of Evan Bayh, the leading Democratic politician from the State of Indiana, who has been that state's governor and has been one of its United States Senators since 1999. A newspaper in her state has described her as being engaged in a profession it termed "professional board member" or "professional director".cite news | last = Smith | first = Sylvia | title = Across the boards | publisher = Fort Wayne Journal Gazette | date = December 16, 2007 | url = http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071216/LOCAL1004/712160424 | accessdate = 2008-07-21]

Personal life

On April 13, 1985, she married Evan Bayh. On November 9, 1995, Susan gave birth to twin boys.

Career

She earned her Bachelors of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley. She then earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California Law School in 1984.

As an attorney

Bayh began her careers in law and business as a litigator for the law firms of Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher; and later Barnes & Thornburg. In 1989, she joined the pharmaceutical division at the Indianapolis based Eli Lilly and Company, managing the company's handling of federal regulatory issues.cite news | last = Smith | first = Sylvia | title = Executive Profile, Susan B. Bayh JD | publisher = Business Week | url = http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=703285&capId=28028&previousCapId=160077&previousTitle=WellPoint%20Inc.| accessdate = 2008-07-21] In 1994, she left the employ of Eli Lilly and taught at Butler University’s College of Business Administration, holding the title of Distinguished Visiting Professor.

Professional director

An Indiana newspaper listed eight corporations of which Bayh was a director as of 2006 and stated, "Susan Bayh’s position as a director for eight businesses puts her in the league of 'professional directors', a term used to refer to people who sit on multiple corporate boards and are not otherwise employed." Bayh began serving on corporate boards in 1994 and since then she has served on the boards of 14 corporations in the insurance, pharmaceutical, food processing, and other industries.

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