Awards & Recognition: Melissa Proffitt Reese

• Selected for 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions of "Best Lawyers in America"
• Named to the 2009 The Best Lawyers in America list in employee benefits law
• Invited by Governor Mitch Daniels to attend the 2008 Business and Professional Women's Leadership Summit
• Named as one of 2008's Influential Women by the Indianapolis Business Journal
• Inducted into the Indiana Fever's "Inspiring Women" Class of 2008
• Recipient of 2008 Touchstone Award from Indiana Commission for Women - Law Category
• Named as "Best of Class" by The Best of the U.S. Inc., 2006, 2007 and 2008
• Selected by Indianapolis Monthly as one of Indiana's "Top 25 Female Super Lawyers" for 2004, 2005 and 2006, and a "Super Lawyer" for 2004 through 2008 in the field of Employee Benefits
• Invited by Governor Mitch Daniels to be a member of the State of Indiana's Trade Mission Delegation to Japan, September 2007
• Invited by Governor Mitch Daniels to be a member of the State of Indiana's Trade Mission Delegation to Germany and the United Kingdom, May 2007
• Named to Midwest Advisory Committee for Managing Partner Forum, 2006 and 2007
• Recipient of 2006 Touchstone Award from Girls Inc. in the Law Category of Business and Industry
• Invited by Rep. Dan Burton and Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman to be a member of the State of Indiana's Trade Mission to Taiwan and Vietnam, October 2006
• Invited Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman to be a member of the State of Indiana's Trade Mission Delegation to Central America, January 2006
• Invited by Governor Daniels to be a member of the State of Indiana's Trade Mission Delegation to Japan and Korea in June 2006
• Invited by Governor Daniels to be a member of the State of Indiana's Trade Mission Delegation to Japan and Taiwan in August 2005
• Listed in Who's Who in American Law
• Listed in Strathmore's Who's Who
• Selected for the American Biographical Institute's 2002 Notable American Women
• Included in the Indianapolis Business Journal's "Forty Under 40" for 2000