J. Todd Spurgeon of New Albany advanced to the office of president-elect of the Indiana State Bar Association for 2017-18 at the association’s annual meeting in Indianapolis.

His term will expire in October, after which he will become the association’s president.

As president, he will represent the single largest legal organization in the state.

The 1992 Brownstown Central High School graduate is a partner at Kightlinger & Gray LLP in its New Albany office.

He is a member of the Floyd County, Indiana State and American bar associations.

Spurgeon, the son of Mary Sue Spurgeon of Brownstown and the late Larry Spurgeon, also is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, Defense Research Institute, Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana and the Sherman Minton American Inn of Court.

Spurgeon received his Bachelor of Arts from Wabash College in 1996 and his law degree from the Indiana University Mauer School of Law in 1999.

Founded in 1896, the state bar association serves and advocates on behalf of its nearly 12,000 members, their clients and the public interest as the independent voice of the legal profession.