Billie Fouts is 2024 Indy PR Legend Honoree

INDIANAPOLIS - April 7, 2024 - PRLog -- The Indianapolis Public Relations Society will present Billie J. Fouts with its top honor, the Indy PR Legend Award, on April 16 at noon at the University Club, 970 N. Delaware St., Indianapolis, 46202..

Fouts retired in 2022 after more than four decades in the Indianapolis public
relations industry. The last ten years of her career she served as vice president of
marketing and development at the International Center. Prior to that, she was public
relations and corporate advertising manager at Melvin Simon & Associates, where
she developed several award-winning institutional advertising campaigns.

She began her career as a public relations associate at Ruben, Montgomery &
Associates (later known as MZD Advertising). She spent four years as associate
executive director of the National Kidney Foundation of Indiana.
A graduate of Warren Central High School, Fouts earned a bachelor's degree in
English and Spanish from Butler University. She graduated summa cum laude and
earned first-place honors in the John Chapman Miller public speaking competition.
As an alumna, she served for eight years on Butler's Board of Visitors.

"Billie's contributions to our community and the public relations industry have left an
indelible mark on our discipline," said IPRS president Denise Herd. "Her passion for
public relations, our community and, most of all, storytelling has brought significant
value to our discipline. She is a true legend in every sense of the word."

The Indy PR Legend Award was first presented in 2008 to James R. Hetherington, a
long-time Indianapolis journalist and public relations executive. Subsequent
honorees have been Robert L. Gildea, Myra Borshoff, Carl Henn, Ann Rein, Gretchen
Wolfram, Donna Mikels Shea, Bob Dittmer, Lou Gerig, Bill Benner and David Sease.