William C. Hartley, Jr. has served as the elected prosecuting attorney for Wabash County since 2003. He graduated from Indiana University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business with a major in Accounting. While in law school, he worked for a certified public accounting firm in Plymouth. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Valparaiso University and was admitted to practice law in the state of Indiana by the Indiana Supreme Court in 1996. After approximately two years in private practice, he returned to his hometown to become a prosecutor. He served as Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Wabash County from 1998-2002.
Prosecutor Hartley served four years on active duty in the United States Army in infantry units at Fort Clayton, Panama, and the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, among other places. He is a graduate of the Army's Jungle Warfare, Air Assault, and Light Infantry Leader schools.
Hartley has coached various youth sports teams and also served as a Board Member for the Wabash County United Fund Board of Directors from 1998 through 2004, serving as its President in 2003. He served as a Board Member on the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council and on its Executive Committee as the chairman. He currently serves as a Board Member on the Association of Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys, Inc. He served on the Indiana Supreme Court's Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure from 2017-2022. He is a member of the Wabash County Bar Association, Indiana State Bar Association, Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council, and National District Attorneys Association.
Bryan J. Michaud has served as chief deputy prosecuting attorney for Wabash County since 2012. He graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Dayton School of Law and was admitted to practice law in the state of Indiana by the Indiana Supreme Court in 1989. He was a deputy prosecutor in Miami County, Indiana from 1990 until 1993. He was in private practice as a criminal defense attorney from 1993 until 2011 and Miami County Chief Public Defender from 2004 until 2011.
Aaron K. Hartley has served as Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Wabash County since November 1, 2022. Aaron graduated from Wabash High School in 2015. He attended Indiana University in Bloomington where he graduated in December 2018 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Affairs majoring in Law and Public Policy. As an undergraduate, Aaron attended the Indiana University Police Academy where he became a certified law enforcement officer. He served as a part time police officer for the Indiana University Police Department from August 2018 to August 2019 and also worked briefly with the Bloomington Police Department in 2019.
Aaron attended the University of Dayton School of Law from August 2019 to May 2022. During that time, he served as a research intern for the Indiana Prosecuting Attorney’s Council in 2020, intern for the Tippecanoe County Prosecutor’s Office in 2021, and as a practicing legal intern in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in 2022. He received his Juris Doctor degree in May 2022 and was admitted to practice law in the State of Indiana by the Indiana Supreme Court in October 2022.
