Robert W. Swan, a senior partner with Kemper CPA Group LLC in Evansville, has been awarded the USI Distinguished Accountant Award recognizing professional achievement, service to the region and/or the University, and service to the accounting profession.

The award was presented in September at USI during the Accounting Extravaganza, an event for USI accounting majors, faculty, and members of the Accounting Circle, an organization of senior executives in public and corporate accounting in the southwestern Indiana region. Members serve as an advisory board to USI’s accounting program.

Swan is a founding member of both the USI College of Business Board of Advisors and the Accounting Circle. He served as first chair of the Accounting Circle in 1998-99 and was chair of the Board of Advisors in 2002-03. Swan served as a USI trustee from 1991-95 and was president of the USI Alumni Association in 1988. He completed a bachelor’s degree in accounting at USI in 1972.

In the community he has been active in the United Way of Southwestern Indiana, Evansville Better Business Bureau, Center City Corporation, and Evansville Rotary Club.

Swan began his public accounting career with Price Waterhouse and Company in Chicago and later was associated with Santa Fe Energy Company in Amarillo, Texas. He joined the Kemper CPA Group in 1981.

He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. He is a board member of the Indiana CPA Society and a recipient of the Civic Achievement Award from the organization’s Southern Indiana chapter.

The USI Distinguished Accountant Award was established in 2004 by the Department of Accounting and Business Law in the USI College of Business and the Accounting Circle.