Meet Liz

Effective Conservative Leadership.

Liz Brown is an effective leader in the Indiana Senate, advancing conservative policies at the Statehouse on behalf of her neighbors in Senate District 15, which encompasses much of Allen County. Dozens of her bills have passed into law, making Indiana a more affordable and safer place to raise a family and run a business. As a mother of seven, she’s unwavering in her commitment to protecting the unborn and helping their mothers.

Liz has earned the respect of her constituents and her colleagues by serving as Senate Judiciary Chair. Law enforcement and prosecutors know she has their back, advancing policies to lock up criminals and protect our men and women in blue. In 2023, the Indiana Association of Chiefs of Police gave Liz their Legislator of the Year award. She’s earned past endorsements from the Indiana State Police Alliance and the Indiana State Fraternal Order of Police and is a member of the National Rifle Association.

Since taking office, Liz has championed pro-life legislation every session – first under the confines of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and then helping to make Indiana the first state to pass sweeping abortion restrictions after the 2022 Dobbs decision. Indiana has now seen a 98% drop in abortions. Liz continues to introduce pro-life measures, including policies to provide women and babies with proven services to improve their health and maternal outcomes.

In 2025, Liz got her Parental Rights Act passed into law. Designated as the top priority of the Indiana Family Institute, this law makes it clear that parents have the right to raise their children, not government. She has also supported measures to prevent the harmful mutilation of children through gender-transforming surgeries, believes boys have no business joining girls’ sports teams or entering their locker rooms, and passed a law to require age verification for adult websites. When a casino tried to relocate to Northeast Indiana, Liz joined like-minded colleagues and constituents in sounding the alarm about all the societal problems that come along with new casinos.

Liz is seen as a leader in the cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) policy area. She is a Senate co-chair of Indiana’s AI Task Force and earned unanimous support of her consecutive bills on cybersecurity (2024 and 2025) to protect Hoosiers’ private data. She was named the Midwest Region Champion of Innovation in 2023 because of her work on these issues. She also has spoken at national conferences on cybersecurity and AI, outlining the best practices emerging in Indiana.

As a member of the Indiana Senate Health and Provider Services Committee, Liz has introduced and passed bills dubbed “I-ACHE” – Increasing Access to Care for Hoosiers Everywhere – to improve health administration, in order to bring down costs, remove regulations and increase transparency for Hoosier patients.

Liz works tirelessly for common sense economic policies to make Indiana an affordable place to live, work and raise a family. She is the legislative representative on the Northeast Indiana Regional Partnership’s Regional Opportunities Council. She believes that illegal aliens should not take American jobs or force the taxpayers to foot the bill for their illegal residency. Past endorsements tout her commitment to limited government and pro-jobs policies. Indiana Merit Construction PAC of ABC wrote, “Here at ABC, we are pleased and encouraged by your commitment to the free market, opportunities for everyone to achieve the American dream, and your clear understanding that a government at any level that stifles those ideas hinders growth and private enterprise.” Further, the Indiana Business for Responsive Government, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s non-partisan political action program said, “Through your leadership and voting record in support of a pro-jobs, pro-economy agenda, Indiana has become a national leader on so many issues and measurements of economic and government success. Your strong support for economic and free enterprise issues has really made a difference.”

Liz has authored common sense laws regarding education and schoolchildren. One law allows schools to request their school transportation tax dollars from a tax increment financing district, thus giving schools more money without raising taxes. She supports parents taking the lead on their students’ education as demonstrated with parental rights, funding the Choice Scholarship Program and her support of the Classical Learning Test.

Liz first earned a reputation as an effective leader when serving on the Fort Wayne City Council (at-large). She worked on behalf of Fort Wayne residents championing transparency and accountability measures to lead to a better-functioning city government. Other past and present community involvement includes the IU Fort Wayne Advisory Board, Boys and Girls Clubs of Fort Wayne Board of Directors, Parkview Hospital Ethics Committee, the Notre Dame Club of Fort Wayne and Allen County Law Library Foundation Board.

Raising her seven children in Fort Wayne led Liz to support education through leadership roles including the St. Jude School Board, the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend School Board, the National Catholic Education Association School Board and the Dwenger Saints Alive Committee. Liz was a regular substitute teacher at St. Jude Catholic School and an adjunct professor at University of Saint Francis, teaching business courses.

Liz attended University of Notre Dame where she met her husband, Steve. She followed him to Iowa where he did his medical training and earned her law degree at the University of Iowa College of Law. After they finished school, they settled in Fort Wayne and Steve served as a cardiologist at Parkview. Liz is a registered Civil and Domestic Mediator with her own mediation business. She is a member of the Saint Thomas More Society of Fort Wayne, Allen County Bar Association and the Republican National Lawyers Association.  

The Browns’ seven children all attended St. Jude School and Bishop Dwenger High School. Steve and Liz, married more than 40 years, continue to worship at St. Jude Catholic Church.