Four alumni of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law will be presented with Distinguished Service Awards this September in Bloomington.
Dino Bovell, Matt Furton, Augie Haydel, and Terrance Stroud will be honored September 13 during a meeting of the school’s Alumni Board and before reunions for the classes of 1964, 1974, 1999, and 2014.
The Distinguished Service Award was established in 1997 to recognize graduates of Law School who have distinguished themselves in service to their communities and the school in ways far exceeding traditional business, professional, and civic duties.
Through their hard work, passion, and accomplishments, these alumni define Indiana Law’s ideals for community service and serve as accomplished role models for our Law School and the greater community.
“It is always an honor to present the Distinguished Service Awards to some of our outstanding alumni,” said Indiana Law Dean Christiana Ochoa. “Professionally, this year’s recipients represent excellence in private practice and public service. But their dedication and commitment to improving their respective communities—from Los Angeles to New York—and in their extraordinary representation of the Law School makes them especially worthy of recognition.”
This year’s recipients are:
Dino Bovell ’14 is a first-generation Guyanese American born and raised in Yonkers, New York, and the first member of his family to graduate from college and law school. He moved to Los Angeles in 2021 to further his ambitions to amplify Black and Brown voices in popular culture and expand the sphere of opportunities and influence for underrepresented communities. He is currently a director of business affairs with NBCUniversal (“NBCU”), where he is responsible for negotiating the commercial deal points with the production companies and behind-the-scenes/on-screen talent that develop, produce, and feature in NBCU’s premium television and streaming content. Bovell has worked on a variety of projects across film and television including the Olympic games, Sunday Night Football, Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster Oppenheimer, and Saturday Night Live. He formerly worked as an employment lawyer with two preeminent international law firms in New York City.
Matthew Furton ’95 is a partner and former co-chair of the 240+ lawyer Litigation Department at Locke Lord. He has a national, complex commercial and IP litigation practice. Furton has handled trials, appeals and arbitration proceedings in over twenty-five states. His cases include contract, business tort, and fraud claims as well as statutory actions such as RICO, consumer fraud, shareholder derivative actions, and antitrust claims. In the IP area, Furton handles copyright and trademark infringement, trade secret misappropriation, false advertising and defamation claims. He handles cases in any industry, but many of his cases arise from the use of information technology or the business of insurance. On multiple occasions, Furton has secured injunctions in favor of entire industries. Representing trade associations and leading companies, Furton has secured judicial relief prohibiting Illinois agencies from enforcing recently enacted statutes. His clients include Fortune 500 companies that repeatedly turn to him for their most challenging cases. His clients also include entrepreneurs and mid-market companies that need an efficient solution to a commercial dispute.
Augustavia “Augie” Haydel ’85 is general counsel of L.A. Care Health Plan. In this role she provides and arranges for legal counsel to L.A. Care’s Board of Governors and to senior management. Haydel’s duties involve a wide array of activities, including advice and counsel on health care legal issues, public law and government practice issues, board administration and governance issues, litigation activities, contract strategies and negotiations, and various other general and specialized legal topics. Before joining L.A. Care, she served for 10 years as counsel at WATTS Health Systems, Inc., in Los Angeles. Prior to that position, she was in private practice. She also has served as an assistant district attorney in the King’s County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York, and worked as a Market Research Analyst for the Indiana Business Development Foundation in Indianapolis.
Terrance Stroud ’03 serves as the Deputy Commissioner at the Department of Social Services (DSS) overseeing the Office of Training & Workforce Development. He leads the development and implementation of the agency’s learning strategy. DSS is the largest municipal social services agency in the nation and has an operating budget of $9.7 billion and over 18000 employees. Stroud is a published author who has been honored by elected officials on a city, state, and federal level for his work in government and his contributions to the community. His distinctions also include being named a Brooklyn Tech Distinguished Younger Alumnus, a Home Reporter News “Star of Brooklyn,” a City and State “Top 40 Under 40,” Black Enterprise Modern Man of Distinction, the IU Maurer School of Law Samuel S. Dargan Outstanding Alumni Award, the City & State Inaugural Above & Beyond: Innovator Award and the City & State Higher Education Power 100. Stroud was appointed to the New York State Staff Development Advisory Committee and was elected to the National Staff Development Training Association’s Executive Advisory Council. Stroud is also co-chair of the American Public Human Services Association’s Equity Diversity and Inclusion Peer Community. President Biden appointed Stroud to serve as a Commissioner on the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars. Stroud is an adjunct professor of law overseeing the Law School’s New York Externship Program and is the first black recipient of the Adjunct Faculty Teaching Award. He was the inaugural Global Leader in Residence at the Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, where he led the Global Leaders & Professionals Program.
The recognition will take place in the DeLaney Moot Court Room at noon.