About Amy

Devoting both her career and her personal life to public service, Amy is an experienced family law attorney and mediator, prosecutor, public school teacher, and writer.

Amy graduated from Columbus North High School, Smith College, and the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington.

Amy is currently serving her second term as an elected member of the Brown County Schools school board and advocates for small, rural schools and for fully funding public schools at the Indiana Statehouse. She has wide-ranging experience in protecting vulnerable people and in-depth knowledge of many issues. She has the interests of Southern Indiana Hoosiers in mind.

Amy and her husband, Jim, are both lifelong Hoosiers with roots in the state for several generations. They live in a log cabin in the woods of Brown County and have been community leaders there for the past 28 years. Together, they raised two sons in Brown County, who are now 25 and 22. Now they tend only to the needs of two adopted cats.

Above photos by Kip May photography in Bloomington

Amy is an Attorney for the People 

  • Amy is a passionate advocate for the rights of victims of crime and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Over her career, she has assisted hundreds of people who want to escape abusive relationships as the Legal Director for the non-profit agency Turning Point Domestic Violence Services in Columbus, IN, and as a Domestic Violence Prosecutor in Marion and Monroe Counties.

  • Amy also served the citizens of Indiana as a Deputy Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Division and as an Administrative Law Judge deciding unemployment claim appeals.

  • Amy currently works part-time as a Registered Domestic Mediator for low-income families and as an occasional adjunct instructor in the criminal justice department at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis.

At the Monroe County Justice Building

Serving on the Indiana State School Board Association Legislative Committee.

Amy is a Leader in her Community

  • Brown County voters elected Amy as a non-partisan school board member for Brown County Schools in 2020 and 2024.

  • As part of her school board duties, Amy serves on the Brown County Redevelopment Commission, Election Board’s Vote Center Study Committee, and the Brown County Innkeeper’s Tax Quality of Life Committee, as well as the state legislative committee for the Indiana School Board Association.

  • Amy is a member of the prestigious state leadership program for Democratic women, Hoosier Women Forward, and a 2016 graduate of the Brown County LEAP leadership class.

  • Amy currently volunteers her time as president of the Brown County chapter of Psi Iota Xi, a philanthropic sorority, cooking at Mother’s Cupboard Community Kitchen, and being an usher at the Brown County Playhouse.

  • When her children were younger, Amy volunteered for 12 years as a leader with Cub Scout Pack and Boy Scout Troop 190. She was also the President of the Brown County High School Band Boosters and We the People Fundraising Committees, while being an all-around percussion, drama, and tennis mom.

  • As a lifelong member of Nashville United Methodist Church, Amy led the Parents’ Day Out Steering Committee, the children’s ministry/VBS program, and the annual FallFare event for several years.

Serving up soup at Mother’s cupboard annual Soup Bowl benefit.

Collecting donations for the Lion’s Club July 4th Fireworks with Jim and their two sons.

Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Brown County Playhouse with a 1940’s theme.

At Nashville United Methodist Church

Amy is Recognized Statewide for her Service

  • Amy‘s service to her community has been honored with a number of awards:

  • Indiana Domestic Violence Professional of the Year from Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence

  • Indiana Middle School History Teacher of the Year from the Indiana Historical Society

  • Pro Bono Attorney of the Year from Legal Aid - District 11

  • District Award of Merit from the Wapahani District of Boy Scouts of America

  • Brown County Community Service Award from Brown County Rotary Club

Awarded the Indiana Middle School History Teacher of the Year from the Indiana Historical Society for her work with National History Day.

Amy and Jim were awarded the Brown County Rotary Club’s Community Service Award in 2025

Recognition from the Monroe County Bar Association by Prosecutor Erika Oliphant

Amy was a Proud Public School Teacher

  • After 20 years working as an attorney, Amy changed career paths and became a public school teacher.

  • She taught U.S. History and government at CSA New Tech High School in Columbus and taught seventh-grade world history at Brown County Junior High School.

  • Amy focused her lessons on sharing cultures and religions from around the world with students. She organized a world religion field trip to Bloomington to visit the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, a mosque, a synagogue, and a Christian church.

  • Before and after school, Amy initiated programs like Girls Who Code, Chess Club and Global Citizenship. She guided several students to the state and national competitions for National History Day.

  • As a teacher, Amy spent part of her summers traveling with other teachers to learn more about historical and cultural issues. She spent one month teaching and traveling in China and attended programs at Duke University on the Middle East, the civil rights movement in Arkansas, and the Holocaust in Washington, D.C.

  • During the 2019-20 school year, the Oliver family hosted an exchange student from China.

Supporting teachers at a Red for Ed rally at the IN Statehouse.

Brown County seventh graders visiting the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington on a field trip about world religions.

While at a Civil Rights Institute in Arkansas, Amy met Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine who helped integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Family is important to Amy

Amy learned the value of family and public service from her parents. Topics at the nightly dinner table often included the importance of telling the truth, free speech, and government transparency.

  • Amy’s father, Stu Huffman, worked at the Columbus Republic from the time he was a paperboy until he served as the Editor from 1972 to 1986. Amy grew up pulling copy off the AP wire and developing photos in the darkroom. Later, Stu served the citizens of Indiana for 17 years as the speechwriter for two Superintendents of Education, H. Dean Evans and SueEllen Reed.

  • He was an active member of the Brown County Lions Club, the Brown County Friends of the Library, and the Salt Creek Trail Committee.

  • Amy’s mother, Jane Huffman, loved teaching. She was a beloved high school English and journalism teacher in Bartholomew and Brown County Schools. She later served as a high school guidance counselor and retired after 40 years of service to her community.

  • Still living in Nashville, Jane is a 50+-year member of Nashville United Methodist Church and Brown County’s chapter of Psi Iota Xi, a philanthropic sorority. She volunteers at the Brown County History Center and is known for her contributions to long-term fundraising events like the Log Cabin Tour and FallFare.

Amy with her parents, Jane and Stu Huffman, at their home in Nashville around 1972

Amy’s mother, Jane Huffman, known as “Gran” to her grandsons, who lives nearby in Nashville.

Amy’s parents, Jane and Stu Huffman, at the Hob Nob Restaurant in Nashville before her father passed away in 2012.

Jane, sitting on a bench dedicated to her husband Stu, on the Salt Creek Trail in Nashville.