Nels Ackerson

Government, Mediation
One Indiana Square, Suite 3500
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204


Government

Admitted

1971, Indiana; 1989, U.S. Supreme Court; 1985, District of Columbia

Law School

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1971

Law School Graduation Year

1971

College

Purdue University, B.S., with distinction, 1967; Harvard University, Master in Public Policy, 1971

Memberships

The District of Columbia Bar; Indiana State and American (Member, Sections on: Business Law; International Law and Litigation) Bar Associations; International Society of Barristers; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; International Right-of-Way Association; Center for National Policy; American Agricultural Law Association; National Policy Association (Member, Food and Agriculture Committee).

Biographical

Member, Board of Editors, Harvard Law Review, 1968-1970. Chief Counsel, United States Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Committee on the Judiciary, 1976-1979. Nominee for Congress of the United States from Indiana, 1980. Managing Partner, Sidley & Austin & Naquib, Cairo, Egypt, 1982-1984. Chairman, Board of Directors, Class Corridors, LLC. Co-author: Rails-to-Trails: The Perspective Across the Tracks, 70 J.TRANSP. L., LOGISTICS & POL¿Y 142 (2003). (Resident, Washington, DC Office)

Military