Jeff D. Kniese
Evansville City Councilman, 1st Ward

Jeff D. Kniese is a Senior Vice President of Mortgage Banking at Integra Bank Corporation, a $3 billion community bank headquartered in Evansville, IN with offices in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Ohio. He has been with Integra since September 2001. Prior to joining Integra, he spent over 14 years with Old National Bank holding several positions in lending and insurance with his last position as Vice President responsible for their corporate-wide life and health insurance division. Prior to Old National he spent two years with Morris Plan & Thrift.

Mr. Kniese is the Republican First Ward City Councilman on the Evansville City Council. While on City Council, he has served the Finance, Public Works, Administration-Safety-Development, Salary Administration, Vanderburgh Community Foundation and Youth Leadership Committee's and is a past President of the Evansville Board of Public Safety. He is a member of the Evansville Police East Sector Citizens Committee and past member of the Area Plan Commission. He has also been a precinct committeeman for the local Republican Party for 15 years. He has been involved with local politics for the past 25 years serving as Finance Chairman for the local Young Republicans, campaign manager for former City Councilman Jim Price, delegate to the Indiana State convention and assisted with numerous campaigns in various capacities.

Mr. Kniese is an Evansville native graduating from Harper Elementary School, Harrison High School and holds a B.S. degree in Finance from the University of Southern Indiana and Economics from Western Kentucky University. He is a graduate of the National Consumer Lending School in Oklahoma City, OK and holds insurance licenses in IN, IL, KY, and OH.

Mr. Kniese is currently on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Junior Achievement of Southwestern Indiana where he is a past Board Chairman and also resides on the YMCA Dunigan Facility Board, the Evansville Chamber of Commerce Governmental Affairs Committee, WNIN Board, Downtown Evansville, Inc Residential Committee and previously on the Evansville Museum Board and past President of the Brownfield Redevelopment Commissions Board. He is a member of the Indiana State Board of Education Public Law 221 School Improvement Committee for Harrison High School. He has been active with helping agencies such as United Way as Integra Bank's 2005 campaign Chairman and as a Keel Club member, Vanderburgh Humane Society, Boy Scouts, American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, Susan G. Koman Race for the Cure, WNIN and is a member of Zion Evangelical United Church of Christ.

He is the 2002 recipient of the Unsung Hero Award presented by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. This award was presented to only five individuals throughout the state of Indiana in 2002 and Mr. Kniese is only the second person from Evansville to have received this award since its inception.