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Dan Evans, '76, Receives IU's Distinguished Alumni Service Award
10/12/2018
Daniel F. Evans Jr.,'76, received Indiana University’s Distinguished Alumni Service Award from President Michael McRobbie on October 11 at Alumni Hall on the Bloomington campus.
A native of Indiana, Evans has reached the highest levels of public service, working nationally to further the health interests of Hoosiers.
"Dan Evans has been a tireless advocate and friend to Indiana, IU, and especially to IU McKinney,” said IU McKinney Dean Andrew R. Klein. “We're so pleased and proud that Dan has been given this award, which he indeed richly deserves."
Serving as CEO of IU Health from 2002 to 2016, Evans oversaw its expansion into a statewide system of 18 facilities and increased revenue for the consortium from $850 million to over $5 billion.
Before that, Evans worked as partner and attorney for the Indianapolis law firm Baker & Daniels (now Faegre Baker Daniels) and served simultaneously as chair of Sagamore Associates, a government-relations subsidiary of the law firm. During this period, Evans was the first chair of the Federal Housing Finance Board, nominated to the post by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. A personal friend and law school classmate of Dan Quayle, JD'74, Evans directed the transition team for the vice president-elect from 1988 to 1989.
Evans has been instrumental in launching the IU Health Law Scholars program, offered jointly through the IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law and the IU Fairbanks School of Public Health, both at IUPUI. The program supports talented health care law and administration leaders of tomorrow.
One of his key contributions to the state is the founding of the Evans Center, a holistically oriented healing center in Indianapolis that supports initiatives that offer spiritual integration into health care.
Evans received his award along with Curtis A. Ferguson of Hilton Head, South Carolina; Rose M. Mays of Indianapolis; Todd W. Spaletto of Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Pusadee Piyakul Tamthai of Bangkok, Thailand.
The recipients were chosen for service and achievement in their fields of endeavor and significant contributions to community, state, nation or university. With the addition of these recipients, IU has honored 340 alumni since the award's inception in 1953.
