Staff Profile

Catherine Matthews

Director of Student Services

Biography

Catherine Matthews joined the Indiana Law staff after working as a program consultant for the Law School's Office of Student Affairs and as a practicing attorney for Indiana University's Office of General Counsel.

As a law student, she served on four faculty committees; participated in a number of student groups, including the Feminist Law Forum, for which she served as president; and worked as a research assistant for three law professors. She also served as a PRACTICE Group Advisor, Student Affairs fellow, admissions tour guide, and teaching assistant for the graduate legal writing program. She interned for Judge John D. Tinder on the Southern District of Indiana, clerked for a year at IU's Office of General Counsel, and was review editor of the Federal Communications Law Journal.

Prior to entering law school, Matthews gained extensive teaching experience, primarily at the university level. A Tennessean at heart, she moved from her home state to South Korea, where she taught English. After returning to the United States, she taught academic writing, critical reading and reasoning, and legal issues in higher education. She earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education at Indiana University.