Previous Recipients

2024
No award given.

2023
No award given.

2022
Jeff Wheeler, USCG Office of Boat Forces

2021
Captain Matt Majors, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency

2020
No award given.

2019
No award given.

2018
No award given.

2017
Senator Melisa Franzen & Representative Jerry Hertaus, Minnesota
After the tragic loss of a seven-year-old girl named Sophia to carbon monoxide poisoning in Minnesota, Senator Melisa Franzen and Representative Jerry Hertaus came together with Sophia’s parents to try to find a way to prevent future carbon monoxide tragedies. Click here for more information about Sophia's Law. 

2016
No award given.

2015
No award given.

2014
Jeffrey Johnson, Boating Law Administrator, Alaska

2013
Jeff Hoedt, Chief, USCG Division of Boating Safety

2012
Capt. Richard Moore, Boating Law Administrator, Florida

2011
John M. Johnson, NASBLA CEO

2010
Major General Don Riley, Deputy Commanding General and Deputy Chief (retired), U.S. Army Corps Engineers

2009
Mark Rosenker, Past Chair, National Transportation Safety Board

2008
Virgil Chambers, Executive Director, National Safe Boating Council

2007
Adm. Thad W. Allen, U.S. Coast Guard

2006
James Muldoon, Chair, National Boating Safety Advisory Council