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For John Lowrey ’05, his career in the legal system is not a crusade.

“Representing the government means that I’m enforcing the rules, so to speak,” he said. “I’m making sure that everyone is working on a level field, that people are not receiving advantages they’re not entitled to, nor disadvantages.”

When he entered 91���� in 2002, Lowrey had his sights set on a triple major in philosophy, physics and business. But romance and other factors led him to sharpen his focus so he could graduate in three years and begin building a life with Allene (Callen) ‘05, who later became his wife. 

After he got his bachelor’s degree in business administration and took a logistics job in Oregon, Lowrey turned his focus to law school, ultimately entering and graduating from the Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.

His life since has been a far-flung journey mostly within governmental justice departments, including in American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands, before returning last year to Indiana, where he is deputy chief litigation counsel in the Indianapolis Office of Corporation Counsel.

“The great thing about our civilization,” he said, “is the idea that the law applies the same to me as it does to you as it does to the man down the street as it does to the corporation as it does to a congressman as it does to the president.”