Thomas L. Brooks, born Lafayette, Indiana, February 16, 1932.  Mr. Brooks graduated from Indiana
University with a B.S. degree in 1954.  After service in the United States Army, he attended the
University of Louisville where he received his J.D. degree, Magna Cum Laude.  He was admitted to
the bar in Indiana in 1959.  Mr. Brooks was an assistant professor of business law at Purdue
University from 1962 until 1999.  He has practiced in the area of probate, estates estate planning
and real estate for more than 40 years and served for may years on national committees of the
American Bar Association in Estate Planning