Thomas Major Jr.

Thomas Major Jr. is associate general counsel at Lumina Foundation, an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis that is committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all.

Major serves as Lumina’s legal lead on strategic and programmatic matters; tax issues; matters involving employee benefits, employment, intellectual property, and enterprise risk; and general corporate matters.

Before joining Lumina in April 2011, Major spent more than six years in corporate law practice at Baker & Daniels (now Faegre Drinker) in Indianapolis and five years as an education and workforce program consultant for clients including the City of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Private Industry Council. He also served more than three years as the council’s associate director for youth and young adult initiatives. In that role, he oversaw several education and workforce training initiatives for 18- to 29-year-olds from families with low incomes.

Major serves on the board of the Indiana Philanthropy Alliance and co-authored the first and second editions of Becoming a Student-Ready College: A New Culture of Leadership for Student Success, published in 2016 and 2022, respectively.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan and his law degree from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.