Utility Service Board Legal Counsel
Raymond M. Kirtley:
Raymond M. Kirtley, a native of Montgomery County is a 1970 Crawfordsville High School graduate and received his A.B. degree in Political Science from Indiana University in Bloomington in 1974. In 1980, he was graduated from the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis and admitted to the Indiana Bar in 1981. Prior to attending law school, he was employed by Dun and Bradstreet, Inc. and American Fletcher National Bank in Indianapolis. Before returning to Crawfordsville in July 1981 to begin his private law practice, Kirtley was appointed and served as an Indiana Deputy Attorney General assigned to the Appellate division. He has served as Montgomery County Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney and was counsel for the Montgomery County Department of Public Welfare.
In 1984, Kirtley was elected Judge of the Montgomery County Court serving three full terms and retired from the bench on December 31, 2002. Judge Kirtley was a member of the Indiana Judges Association and is a graduate of the National Judicial College, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada and Indiana Judicial College. He served on various committees within the Indiana Judicial Conference and was the judicial representative on the Governor's Commission for a Drug Free Indiana from 1994 through 2002 appointed by Governors Bayh and O'Bannon. Prior to joining Kirtley, Taylor, Sims, Chadd & Minnette, P.C., Kirtley was employed as a trust officer with Community Trust and Investment Company in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He served as an Indiana Senior Judge from 2006 to 2007. He is a member of the First United Methodist Church of Crawfordsville, and has held various leadership positions within his community, including President of the Montgomery County Chapter of the American Red Cross, and Crawfordsville Public Library Building and Preservation Corporation, Family Crisis Shelter, United Way, and the Kappa Sigma Fraternity. He and his wife, Nancy, have three daughters.
