Ellen Deeter

Background

About Ellen Deeter

Ellen is an Attorney in Indianapolis, Indiana after having spent most of the past 35 years working in bank trust departments. Her practice is focused on trusts and estates and she recently became a registered civil mediator, also with a focus on trust, estate and guardianship disputes. She retired from The National Bank of Indianapolis at the end of 2013, where she worked in various roles over 18 years, including serving as the Manager of the Personal Trusts and Estates Group and as Senior Trust Counsel. During her tenure at the bank she helped it grow from $35 million in assets under administration to $1.6 billion in assets. She is a frequent lecturer on estate planning, trust administration and taxation topics. She has been an instructor for the American Bankers Association National Graduate Trust School, the Indiana Continuing Legal Education Forum, the American Institute of Banking, the Indiana State Bar Association, the Indianapolis Bar Association, the National Business Institute, and the IU McKinney School of Law