Previous Recipients

2023
Award retired.

2022
Award brought out of retirement by the NASBLA Executive Board.
Dave Dahms, Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation (ret.)

2021
Award retired.

2020
Award retired.

2019
Award retired.

2018
Award retired.

2017
Award retired.

2016
Award retired.

2015
Major Dan Hesket, Boating Law Administrator, Kansas

2014
No award given.

2013
Col. Jim Brown (ret.), Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission

2012
No award given.

2011
Capt. Mark Rizzo, U.S. Coast Guard

2010
Alfred Johnson, retired U.S. Coast Guard Senior Chief and First USCG District Recreational Boating Safety Specialist

2009
Gary Myers, Director (retired), Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency

2008
Jeff Johnson, Boating Law Administrator, Alaska

2007
Bill Gossard, Recreational Boating Program Manager, National Transportation Safety Board

2006
Commodore Warren McAdams, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

2005
Randy Edwards, Boating Law Administrator, Iowa

2004
Fred Messmann, Boating Law Administrator, Nevada

2003
Alvin Taylor, Boating Law Administrator, South Carolina

2002
Ted Woolley, Boating Law Administrator, Utah

2001
Mike Wilson, Boating Law Administrator, Arkansas

2000
Paul Donheffner, Boating Law Administrator, Oregon

1999
Bill Engfer, Boating Law Administrator, Wisconsin

1998
Congressman John Tanner, Tennessee

1997
Jim Hall, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board

1996
Ed Carter, Boating Law Administrator, Tennessee

1995
Major Larry Rhinehart, Boating Administrator, Indiana

1994
Kim Elverum, Boating Law Administrator, Minnesota

1993
Charles Clark, Boating Law Administrator, Louisiana

1992
Timothy Smalley, Boating Safety Specialist, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

1991
Thomas Atkinson, Boating Law Administrator, Nevada

1990
Representative Walter Jones, North Carolina

1989
Representative William Tauzin, Louisiana

1988
Dale Morey, Boating Law Administrator, Wisconsin

1987
Bob Dewees, Chief, State Affairs Branch, U.S. Coast Guard

1986
Representative Gerry Studds, Massachusetts

1985
Tom Alexander, Boating Law Administrator, Arizona

1984
William Garner, Boating Law Administrator, Alabama

1983
Senator Mark Andrews, North Dakota

1982
Representative Tom Evans, Delaware

1981
Senator Thomas Eagleton, Missouri

1980
Roy Rafter, Boating Law Administrator, Maryland

1979
George W. Stewart Jr., Boating Law Administrator, Delaware

1978
Representative Mario Biaggi, New York

1977
Thomas C. Welch Jr., Boating Law Administrator, South Carolina

1976
Roy Downing, Boating Law Administrator, Iowa

1975
Edward Tharp, United States Coast Guard (ret.)

1974
No award given.

1973
William B. Matthews Jr., Boating Law Administrator, Maryland

1972
Kenneth Gruenewald, Boating Law Administrator, Illinois

1971
Chester Phelps, Boating Law Administrator, Virginia