Biography and photo courtesy of Judge Melanie Kendrick.
Melanie Kendrick is a Judge on the Marion Superior Court in Indianapolis. She presides in Court 22, a Family Division Court, where she hears matters including but not limited to juvenile delinquency, CHINS, divorces, paternity cases, adoptions and guardianships.
Judge Kendrick graduated from The University of Notre Dame in 2008 and then Wake Forest University School of Law in 2011, and was admitted to the Indiana bar in October of 2011. Judge Kendrick began her legal career as a juvenile public defender at the Marion County Public Defender Agency. She then served as the Title IX Coordinator at the University of Southern Indiana before returning to Indianapolis when she was appointed as a Magistrate in Probate Court in 2018. Judge Kendrick was appointed by Governor Holcomb to the Marion Superior Court as a Judge in September of 2023.
Judge Kendrick has handled cases in a wide variety of subject-matters listed above, as well as mental health commitments, estates, wills, and trusts during her time in Probate Court. Judge Kendrick resides in Indianapolis and is always down to discuss what she calls the two B’s- basketball and her bulldog, who she named after her legal hero, Thurgood Marshall.
