My name is Cameron Michael Fathauer (“Fad-hour”). I’m an attorney at Schad Law in New Albany, Indiana, specializing in personal injury, traumatic brain injury, and estate planning. I’m licensed to practice in Indiana and Kentucky.

In 2015, at 17, a severe brain injury destroyed a third of my skull and redirected my path from seminary to law school. Over the next decade, I completed my undergraduate degree, graduated law school while raising triplets plus one, and became licensed to practice by 24. This trajectory wasn’t ambition—it was survival, searching for light in a darkening mind.

That experience shapes everything: my legal work advocating for TBI survivors, my writing on personhood and human dignity, and my understanding of what it means to be remade rather than destroyed. In September 2025, I delivered the keynote at the American Bar Association’s Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs National Conference, introducing my “Performative Utterance Project” framework for understanding identity beyond performance.

My book Saving the Subject: How I Found You When I Almost Lost Me weaves memoir with philosophical and theological reflection on what remains when everything else is stripped away.

I graduated from Columbus North High School (2015/16), Boyce College (2018), and Indiana University Maurer School of Law (2021). I live in Southern Indiana with Chelsea, my wife of ten years and our four young children.

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