Rainmakers Press Release
For Immediate Release: March 6, 2008
Contact: Jennifer Ruby, Ruby Law
Phone: 317-332-3757 
Email: Jennifer@ruby-law.com

INDIANAPOLIS, IN: March 6, 2008 - Jennifer Ruby, Esquire, has been appointed by the City-County Council to serve on the City of Indianapolis and Marion County Information Technology Board.

City-County Councillor and Chair of the Council’s Administration and Finance Committee, Marilyn Pfisterer nominated Ruby to serve on the Information Technology Board. Her nomination was approved by the Administration and Finance Committee on the evening of Tuesday, February 12, 2008. At Monday night’s City-County Council Meeting, the Council approved Ruby’s appointment to the Information Technology Board. Ruby will be sworn in tomorrow morning before her first Information Technology Board Meeting at 8:30am.

The City of Indianapolis/Marion County City-County Council set up an Information Technology (IT) Governance process through General Ordinance 202.1995. Its functions include the creation of the Information Technology Board. The IT board meets monthly to review the IT vision of the enterprise and is comprised of individuals who represent City Departments, County Agencies, and citizens from the community. More at: http://www.indygov.org/eGov/County/ISA/AboutUs/ITGovern/home.htm.

Ruby has a strong background in IT, starting with her Bachelor’s in Science from Purdue University. From there, she served on State internal workgroups determining desktop standards, and later, on national workgroups with the federal government and the other states determining data exchange and integration standards. She was a member of City-County’s Information Services Agency’s executive management from 2001 to 2004. Ruby has continued her interests in the technology field through her peers in the industry, bar association workgroups, managing her firm’s wireless network and mobile office platforms, as well as through her technology clients.

Ruby is the attorney-owner of Ruby Law, a firm that focuses on real property, probate, trusts and small business advice. Ruby has been recognized for her community, civic and business leadership. She won the Indiana Commission for Women’s Torchbearer Award for Entrepreneurship in 2006 and Junior Achievement’s Indy’s Best and Brightest for Law in 2007. Ruby is also a 2006 graduate of Richard G. Lugar Excellence in Public Service Series and a 2004 graduate of the Indiana Leadership Forum. She lives with her husband Michael P. Mendyk and eight (8) month old daughter in historic Irvington. More at: http://www.ruby-law.com.