Honoree

Robert H. Everitt
AWARDS
  • Distinguished Alumni Service Award (2004)
  • Maynard K. Hine Medal (1998)

BIOGRAPHY
Robert H. Everitt has been a devoted volunteer and dedicated friend to Indiana University for many years. A life member of the Alumni Association, he has served on its Executive Council and for more than a decade on the Woodburn Guild board of governors. He has held every office in the Indiana University Men’s Club of Indianapolis and has served the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis Alumni Association with distinction including serving as its representative on the dean’s search committee. He has been a member of the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Dean’s Council executive committee form more than a decade and is president of the school’s J.O. Ritchey Society. The IUPUI campus recognized him by awarding him the Maynard K. Hine medal and the Indiana University Alumni Association presented him with the Association’s President’s Award.

His profession and community have received such dedicated commitment as well; as executive vice president and trust counsel at First Trust Indiana, he continues to provide legal, tax, and estate planning to clients. As a member of the House of Delegates for the Indiana State Bar Association and an officer in the Indianapolis Bar Association, a former president of the Society of Indiana Pioneers, and a committee member for the Indiana Historical Society, he shares his passion for his profession and the history of his state. He also serves in his church, the 500 Festival, and the Washington Township Schools.