Meet Kent Stewart

Kent O. Stewart brought an impressive career in the legal profession to his founding partnership in The Mediation Group where he also served as an arbitrator.

Kent retired from The Mediation Group in 2009.

A former deputy prosecutor, partner of Stewart, Irwin, Gilliam, Fuller & Meyer and founder of Stewart, Due, Doyle & Pugh, Kent has practiced civil litigation law in Indiana for over 35 years, acting as lead counsel in well over 200 trials.

Kent's no-nonsense approach, gained from mediating over 3000 cases, helps to focus both sides on the mediation process. As a seminar speaker he has stressed, "Most people want to resolve their disputes. A good mediator gives them that opportunity."

A graduate of Thomas Carr Howe High School, Kent was a four-letter man. Later at Butler University he was President of the Senior Class and his fraternity, Sigma Nu. Kent was a varsity football player leading the Bulldogs in both rushing and scoring while earning All- Conference honors in the Indiana Collegiate Conference (ICC) and being named to the college Little All- American team.

He is a 2004 inductee into the Butler University Athletic Hall of Fame and is also a director of the Butler B-Association. Kent received his JD degree from Indiana University Indianapolis earning the George O. Dix Memorial Research and Writing award. As a young attorney he
taught Business Law at night for both Butler and IU.

In 1994 he obtained mediation certification. He is a member of the Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution sections of the American Bar Association and Indiana Bar Association, the Indianapolis Bar Association and the Association for Conflict Resolution. Kent is a Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators.

The Indianapolis Business Journal lists Kent among the top five most active mediators in the State. He has also been named again in 2008 as one of Indiana’s “Super Lawyers". Kent is also listed in The Great Best Lawyers in America - 25th edition.

A member of Downey Avenue Christian Church for 57 years, Kent has served as Sunday School Teacher, Deacon, Elder, and Chairman of the Board and as aTrustee.

Kent and his wife, Ann, have 3 children and now 13 grandchildren. He enjoys Bulldog athletics, Colts football, Pacers basketball games and plays golf whenever he can.