Susan B Bayh

Susan Bayh, the wife of former Indiana Gov. Evan Bayh, died in February 2021 after a prolonged battle with brain cancer. She was 61. Mrs. Bayh was the Commissioner of the International Joint Commission of the United States and Canada until 2001. She served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the College of Business Administration at Butler University from 1994 through 2003. Previously, she was an attorney with Eli Lilly & Company. She is a director of Wellpoint, Inc., a Blue Cross/Blue Shield company; Curis, Inc., a therapeutic drug development company; Dendreon Corporation, a biotechnology company; and Dyax Corp., a biopharmaceutical company. From 1989 to 1994, Ms. Bayh served as an Attorney in the Pharmaceutical Division of Eli Lilly and Company, where she handled federal regulatory issues for marketing and medical affairs. Previously, Ms. Bayh worked as a litigation attorney at the law firms of Barnes & Thornburg and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher ... LLP, where she specialized in litigation, antitrust and corporate law. She holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and received a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law Center in California. The Bayhs were married April 13, 1985. Their twins were 25 at the time of her death. They both graduated with bachelor's degrees from Harvard. Beau Bayh enlisted in the Marines and is pursuing a law degree at Harvard. Nick Bayh enlisted in the Army and is pursuing a Master of Business Administration at Harvard.