About Amy

Amy has devoted both her career and personal life to public service as a family law attorney, prosecutor, public school teacher, and freelance writer.

Amy graduated from Columbus North High School and the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington. Amy has lived in Brown County for the past 28 years and has been a leader in her community.

Amy is currently serving her second term as an elected member of the school board for Brown County Schools and advocates for small, rural schools and 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 Southern Indiana Hoosiers' interests in mind."

Amy and her husband, Jim Oliver, are both lifelong Hoosiers with roots in the state for several generations and have the interests of Hoosiers in mind. They live in a log cabin in the woods, have two adult sons, ages 25 and 22, and two adopted cats.

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 Relations Mediator for low-income families and as an occasional adjunct instructor at Ivy Tech Community College in the criminal justice department.

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.

  • Amy currently serves on the Brown County Redevelopment Commission, Election Board’s Vote Center Study Committee and the Innkeeper’s Tax Quality of Life.

  • Amy is a member of the leadership program for Democratic women, Hoosier Women Forward.

  • 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 as a leader with Cub Scout and Boy Scout Troop 190 for 12 years. She was also the President of the Band Boosters and We the People Fundraising Committees, and 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 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

Photos by Kip May photography

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 at CSA New Tech in Columbus and as a seventh-grade world history teacher for Brown County Schools.

  • Amy focused her lessons on sharing cultures and religions from around the world with students, including a world religion field trip to the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center as well as a Muslim mosque, Jewish synogogue and Christian Church in Bloomington.

  • After school, Amy initiated programs like Girls Who Code 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 about the Middle East at Duke University, the civil rights movement in Arkansas, and the Holocaust in Washington, D.C.

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.

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

Family is important to Amy

  • Amy learned the value of family and public service from her parents.

  • Amy grew up pulling copy off the AP wire and developing photos in the darkroom of the Columbus Republic, where her father, Stu Huffman, was the Editor from 1972 to 1986. After that, he served as the speech writer for two Superintendents of Education, H. Dean Evans and SueEllen Reed, for 17 years.

  • 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, taught high school English and journalism and served as a guidance counselor in Bartholomew and Brown County Schools for 40 years.

  • She has been a member of Nashville United Methodist Church and Brown County’s chapter of Psi Iota Xi philanthropic sorority for over 50 years.

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, 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