Stuart Settle is an attorney from Tulsa, Oklahoma.  He received his Juris Doctorate and Graduate Certificate in Health Law from Indiana University McKinney School of Law in 2022.

Before attending IU McKinney in Indianapolis, Stuart attended Indiana University – South Bend, where he earned his B.A. in Political Science with a Minor in Philosophy. While there Stuart researched and published the article “The Vanishing Youth Vote: Disenfranchisement or Encumbrance,” Indiana University South Bend Undergraduate Research Journal 17 (2017), 144. The research, which has been cited by both academic and legal scholars, explored the impact expansive inclusive voter registration can have on the 18-24-year-old voter turnout rates and briefly evaluates the benefits of opt-out/automatic voter registration.

Beyond his academics at IUSB Stuart served as both a Senator and the Secretary of Student Government. He also served as the president of several clubs and organizations, including IUSB’s Soccer Club, and was the founder of the school’s Phi Alpha Delta pre law chapter.

While in South Bend Stuart was highly involved with community service and local government. Stuart spent time assisting with coaching one of the John Adams High School Mock Trial teams and was a member of IUSB’s Political Science Club. He was also a production and research assistant for PBS Michiana’s Politically Speaking. A program focused on providing in-depth looks at local, state, and national issues impacting Michiana, and was selected to be a panelist for the live televised Elkhart Mayoral Debate.

While in law school Stuart continued coaching mock trial, joining Indiana University Mock Trial’s program in Bloomington. He also followed his passion for oral and appellate advocacy by competing in the Robert H. Staton Moot Court Competition and was named to The Order of Barristers. He would go on to be elected to be a member of the Moot Court Executive Board, and the Assistant Chief Justice of National Competitions. Stuart served as both a competitor and coach for the school’s ABA National Moot Court Competition teams over multiple years. During law school he also served as Chief Justice of Phi Alpha Delta’s Hamill Chapter.

Stuart began his legal career working part-time during law school as a law clerk for a downtown Indianapolis firm where he gained experience with civil litigation, corporate, real estate, municipal law, and utilities regulation, as well as appellate experience in the 7^th Circuit Court of Appeals.

After passing the bar Stuart began working at a small boutique law firm in Zionsville Indiana focused on civil litigation in the areas of business, banking, finance, and consumer credit. Stuart quickly gained experience handling cases, from complaint to dismissal, and appeared in over a dozen Federal jurisdictions from Maine to California, achieving positive outcomes for his clients.

Today Stuart handles many business, commercial, and municipal matters as well as fireworks and explosives cases and proceedings.

In his free time Stuart grows hot peppers. For the past five years he has been cultivating and stabilizing his own unique super-hot-hybrid. Stuart also plays soccer and played internationally in Denmark, Sweden, and England.