Lena Snethen

Lena N. Snethen is deputy general counsel at the Indiana Department of State Revenue where she oversees the Appeals Section. The Appeals Section is charged with addressing individual and business challenges to assessments, audit results, refund denials, and the Department’s interpretation of Indiana’s 47 “listed taxes.” During the 1990s, she worked in higher education fundraising where she helped a team at DePauw University raise over $375 million, breaking records for a liberal arts school that size. Ms. Snethen attended the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University, graduating in 2003. After stints in estate planning and civil liberties work, she joined the Department’s Legal Division in 2007 as senior hearing officer. In 2015, after a year litigating tax cases as an Indiana deputy attorney general, she returned to the department to head the Appeals Section as assistant general counsel.