About me
Diane Black is the Training Director for the Indiana Public Defender Council. As IPDC’s Training Director, Diane is focused on the development and implementation of high quality programming for defenders across the state. This focus includes innovative regional training programs that have brought over 350 hours of high quality training to defenders in their home counties. Additionally, in collaboration with Ruth Johnson [IPDC Staff Attorney] and a licensed mental health professional, Diane developed a Resiliency workshop which provides strategies for developing healthy coping mechanisms for stress, burn out, and compassion fatigue so attorneys can remain healthy and continue to provide quality representation to their clients.
Before joining IPDC in 2016 Diane was a trial lawyer with the Marion County Public Defender Agency. In July 2010, she was promoted to Chief Trial Deputy, where she designed programming and training for approximately 150 full-time lawyers and litigated high-profile cases, including the Richmond Hill explosion case, a trial that lasted 6 weeks.
Diane is a member of NLADA, NAIDE, NAPD, NACDL. She is a council member of the Indiana State Bar Association, Criminal Justice section and serves on the Executive Committee of Indy Bar Women in Law Division. She is a graduate of the National Criminal Defense College, Trial Lawyers College, and Gideon’s Promise Train the Trainer. Diane graduated from McKinney School of Law in 1995.
