Dawn Forden ('99)
Insurance & Finance Major
Recipient of The College of Business Early Career Achievement Award in Insurance - 2009
Dawn (Skaggs) Forden is a Vice President at Swiss Reinsurance America Corporation. Since joining the company Forden has had the opportunity to work both in the United States and overseas, including several international projects through the company’s home office in Zurich, Switzerland and in the London insurance marketplace.
Forden earned her Charted Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) and Associate in Reinsurance (ARe) designations. She continues to stay connected to the Katie School of Insurance and College of Business where she also majored in finance. Forden, her husband Patrick ’98 finance/insurance, and their children, Joshua and Alyssa reside in the Chicagoland area.
With over 100 students graduating with insurance degrees each year and accepting a wide variety of positions, our alumni are found all across the country. See what they are doing with our most recent Alumni Newsletter and visit the alumni photo album.
Catch up on what others are doing with Alumni Newsletters of the past:
Illinois State University insurance alumni from left to right:
Nadine Friedman, Lemme Insurance Group; Adam Johnson, State Farm Insurance; Maegan Lunte, Zurich Financial Services; Seth Davis, RLI Corp.
