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About Ann Marie Waldron

Ann Marie Waldron is a member at Waldron Tate Land LLC. Ann Marie focuses her practice on personal injury, medical malpractice, and business/real estate transactions and litigation. Ann Marie was selected as a Super Lawyer in 2020 and 2021. Among her most notable successes, Ann Marie served as counsel, along with Brandon Tate and Katie Piscione, in a case involving a client who suffered catastrophic injuries from an accident caused by a drunk driver that left their client a quadriplegic. They were able to secure a jury verdict of $159 Million, which stands as the largest reported Jury Verdict in Indiana history.

Additionally, Ann Marie served as lead counsel in a case involving a client who suffered catastrophic injuries from an accident caused by a drunk driver that left the 32-year-old plaintiff a quadriplegic. Ann Marie and her team were able to secure a verdict of more than $35 million, which stands as one of the largest personal injury verdicts ever awarded in Indiana. This verdict was recognized as the 57th highest jury verdict nationwide in 2017. In addition, she has handled numerous other claims in which she recovered substantial settlements and awards for her clients.

In 2025, Ann Marie, along with Brandon Tate and Katie Piscione of Waldron Tate Land LLC, were named Trial Lawyers of the Year by the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association. Ann Marie Waldron received her B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1991 and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis in 1995, where she served as the first Symposium Editor of the Indiana Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Barristers. Immediately following law school, she clerked for Hon. Robert H. Staton, Court of Appeals of Indiana.

In 2025, Ann Marie was selected to the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an organization that has worked to advance the civil jury trial and elevate the standards of integrity, civility, and professionalism in the legal profession. Ann Marie is a member of the Indianapolis and Indiana State (Past Chair, GP, Solo & Small Firm Section; Chair, Solo & Small Firm Conference) bar associations. She has been active in the Notre Dame Club of Indianapolis and its Notre Dame Lawyers Committee.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$159,000,000 ($84,000,000 to Sherry Schnee plus $75,000,000 to her husband for loss of consortium)Verdict

On October 18, 2020 Ryann Early, drunk and doing about 79 mph in a 40 zone, crossed into oncoming traffic on Albert S. White Drive in Whitestown and hit Sherry Schnee head-on. She broke her neck and is quadriplegic. He went to prison. On January 11, 2024 a Boone County jury awarded her $84,000,000 and her husband $75,000,000. Early is an individual with no insurer identified, and his own lawyer said afterward he wished there were actual dollars behind the number.

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis
J.D., 1995
University of Notre Dame
Undergraduate, 1991

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Indiana

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