Tara Schulstad Sciscoe is a senior counsel in Ice Miller’s Workplace Solutions Group in Indianapolis, where she focuses her practice on assisting clients with employee benefits and executive compensation matters. She advises employers, plans and trusts with respect to the design and compliance of their employee benefit programs, including their retirement plans, deferred compensation plans, health and welfare plans, severance plans, early retirement programs, executive compensation programs, tuition remission and fringe benefit plans, and phased retirement programs.
Examples of key matters:
- Duke University (B.A., 1991)
- Psychology and Political Science
- University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1994)
- Indiana
- Member, Section on Taxation, American Bar Association
- Member, National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)
- Member, Church Benefits Association (CBA) Core Lawyer Working Group (CLWG)
- Member, Internal Revenue Service Advisory Committee (IRSAC), TE/GE Subgroup
- Ice Miller, Chair of Higher Education Practice Group
- Ice Miller, Chair Retirement Plans Committee
- Distinguished Service Award, National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), 2024
- The Best Lawyers® in America, Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2013-2026
- The Best Lawyers® "Lawyer of the Year" in Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, 2019 and 2022
- AV-Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell, Peer Review Ratings
- Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC), Tax Exempt / Government Entities Subgroup, 2022-2025
- NACUA Committee on Program for the Annual Conference
- Board Member, Second Helpings
- Past NACUA Notes Committee; Committee on Strategic Planning; Committee on Legal Education Workshops
- Past Eiteljorg Museum Advisory Board
- Past Park Tudor School Annual Fund Committee
- Past BSA Troop 180 Committee Chair and Camping Coordinator
- Past Committee Member, St. Richard's School, Regalia
- Past Board Member, Art with a Heart
- Past President and Board Member, Social Health Association
