Previous Recipients

2024
Officer Specialist Gilbrando Resendez, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Sergeant Nate Thompson, Clackamas County Sheriff's Office

2023
No award given.

2022
Luke Martinez, Curry County Sheriff’s Office

2021
John Alexiou, City of Monterey Fire Department

2020 
Corporal Stacey Mosher, Missouri State Highway Patrol

2019 
No award given. 

2018 
No award given. 

2017
No award given.

2016 
Cpl. Joshua Underwood, St. Johns County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office.

2015
Police Chief Steven Crown and Deputy Chief Michael Cenci, Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife Police

2014
Captain Mike England, Georgia Department of Natural Resources

2013
Peter Gionet, New York Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation

2012
James Knauss, King County (Washington) Sheriff's Office

2011
Stephen Verchinski, New Mexico State Parks

2010
Conservation Warden Marty Stone, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

2009
Rick Barrera, Ohio Department of Natural Resources

2008
Emily King, Ohio Department of Natural Resources

2007
John Annino, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection

2006
Joe McCullough, Alaska Department of Natural Resources

2005
Dolores Farrell, California Boating & Waterways

2004
Mark Brown, Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Tim Smalley, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

2003
Dan Martin, Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission

2002
Jeff Decker, Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries

2001
Sergeant Paul Kennedy, Missouri State Water Patrol

2000
Officer David Scheler, Maryland Natural Resources Police

1999
Lt. Brett Norton, Florida Game & Fresh Water Fish Commission

1998
Emily King, Ohio Department of Natural Resources

1997
Marty Law, Oregon State Marine Board

1996
Officer John Anderson, Florida Game & Fresh Water Fish Commission

1995
Ann Van Buren, Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation

1994
Virgil Chambers, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission

1993
Pamela Dillon, Ohio Department of Natural Resources

1992
Lt. David Street, Maryland Department of Natural Resources