David Shane receives highly esteemed Whistler Award
The Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee and Mayor Greg Ballard presented David Shane with the 28th annual Charles L. Whistler Award during a breakfast and ceremony, Nov. 15, 2012 at the Old National Centre.
The annual award recognizes individuals who, outside the regular duties of their chosen professions, have brought together the public and private sectors for civic improvement in Indianapolis. Shane is the Chief Executive Officer of LDI Ltd., LLC, where he has worked since 1997. From 1975 to 1995, he served as an education and employment lawyer with Faegre Baker Daniels.
For more than 20 years, Shane has been actively working to improve education in Indianapolis, Central Indiana and the state. He currently is a Member At-Large of the Indiana State Board of Education, a board member of The Mind Trust, and serves on education advisory boards for the Indiana and Indianapolis Chambers of Commerce. He previously served as an education and workforce advisor to Governor Mitch Daniels, on the Indiana Education Roundtable, the Indianapolis Charter School Board, the K-12 Education Subcommittee of the Indiana Government Efficiency Commission, and the IPS GRADES citizen advisory group. His continuing focus has been on educational results that prepare each student, and thus families and communities, for success in further education, work and life in the knowledge-based, technology-enabled, global world of the 21st Century.
Shane also currently serves on the boards of the following organizations: the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, the Capital Improvement Board of Marion County, the Economic Club of Indiana, and Lilly Endowment, Inc. Shane previously served in leadership roles with Damar Homes, Inc., the 1987 Pan American Games, and Second Presbyterian Church.
Additional biographical information:
Shane and his wife Anne were inducted into the Indiana Academy in 2010, and in 2009 the Boy Scouts of America Crossroads Council presented them with the Thomas W. Moses Award for outstanding contributions to the community. They have a daughter, Molly, currently a physician in Chicago; a son Ben, who works for Target Corporation in Toronto, Canada; and three grandchildren.