Janie Ulmer, Assistant Commissioner
Sports: Girls Basketball, Girls Gymnastics, Boys Soccer, Girls Soccer, Boys Track & Field, Girls Track & Field
Email: julmer@ihsaa.org
A career educator, Janie Ulmer joined the IHSAA August 1, 2022 as an assistant commissioner.
Ulmer spent five years with Hamilton Southeastern Schools, the last two as the principal at Hamilton Southeastern High School (2020-22) in Fishers. From 2017-2020, she served as Director of the Hamilton Southeastern Fishers Academy (HSEF), an off-site alternative education program she helped launch for both Hamilton Southeastern and Fishers high schools. In that role, she managed all functions of the program including staffing, development of academic programs, student services and facilities.
Prior to that, Ulmer spent 24 years in the LaPorte Community School Corporation in northwest Indiana.
She was Director of Virtual Learning, an alternative high school within LaPorte High School, from 2012-17. And from 1993-2012, she taught mathematics to seventh and eighth graders at Kesling Middle School in LaPorte.
Ulmer holds professional memberships with the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Indiana Association of School Principals, Females for Fever which is comprised of professional women who support our Indiana Fever, and W.I.S.E (Women in Sports Entertainment).. She has served as a keynote speaker and honored as Teacher of the Year by the Indiana Middle Level Education Association (IMLEA) as well as coordinating academic competitions and professional development for the LaPorte Community School Corporation.
Ulmer is a 1989 graduate of Valparaiso University earning a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics with a minor in Secondary Education. She went on to earn an Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from American College of Education in Chicago in 2012. She is an alumnus of LaPorte High School where she was a member of the Slicers’ varsity girls basketball team, later serving as an assistant coach, and helped in a supporting role with the baseball team under late Hall of Fame coach Ken Schreiber.
Ulmer is engaged to Christopher Hagenow and she has two adult children – Zachary (Maria) Ulmer and Kate Ulmer - and two grandsons – Elliott and Everett.