Dave Rozenboom named 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient at Dordt University

Dave Rozenboom ('85) has been named the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient at Dordt University.

Rozenboom is the president of First PREMIER Bank, a $3.3 billion, full-service community bank with 14 locations throughout eastern South Dakota.

“At this stage of my career, I particularly enjoy mentoring the next generation of leaders within our organization. In addition, all of us at PREMIER enjoy the opportunity to work for an organization and an owner that has had a transformational impact in our community, state, and beyond in healthcare, education, and in the lives of so many people,” he says. “It is an honor and privilege to be able to contribute to those efforts.”

In addition to enjoying a 39-year banking career in South Dakota, he has served in many leadership roles within his community. Currently, Rozenboom is a board member of:

• South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• South Dakota Hall of Fame
• South Dakota Symphony

Previously, he was board chair of groups such as:

• Forward Sioux Falls Joint Venture Management Committee
• Avera McKennan Hospital and University Health Center
• Sioux Falls Christian Schools
• Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce
• South Dakota Bankers Association

Dordt University is a special place for Rozenboom and his family. “While the Distinguished Alumni Award certainly came as a surprise, it is also very meaningful given how much my wife and I value and appreciate the role Dordt has played in our life together and in the lives of our extended family.”

Rozenboom met his wife, Tammy, at Dordt; they have been married for 40 years. “Together, we have developed many lifelong relationships with fellow Christian friends and couples we met through Dordt.”

Having graduated from Dordt with a degree in business administration in 1985, Rozenboom says his Dordt education continues to impact him to this day.

“Dordt provided me with a foundational Reformed world-and-life view that has guided me to use the gifts that God has given me to glorify Him and fulfill what He has called me to do – in my role as husband, father, and grandfather; my role at the bank; and in my roles at First Christian Reformed Church and in the lives of others throughout our community.”

The Distinguished Alumni Award recognizes alumni who have distinguished themselves in an extraordinary fashion, who give evidence of living out a Reformational worldview, and who demonstrate exemplary service to the community and the world.

Rozenboom will be recognized at the Defender Nation Dinner at Defender Days, held on October 25.

About Dordt University

As an institution of higher education committed to the Reformed Christian perspective, Dordt University equips students, faculty, alumni, and the broader community to work toward Christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary life. Located in Sioux Center, Iowa, Dordt is a comprehensive university named to the best college lists by the Wall Street Journal, Times Higher Education, Forbes.com, Washington Monthly, and Princeton Review.