Previous Recipients

2024
Paul Barnard, U.S. Coast Guard
Captain Stephanie Weatherington, Arkansas Game & Fish Commission
Betsy Woods, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency

2023
Chief Deputy Mike Gladhart, Clearwater County Sheriff's Office
Dan Shipman, USCG Boating Safety Division
Colonel Darren Rider, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency

2022
Captain Merri Walker, Massachusetts Environmental Police
Joe Carro, USCG Boating Safety Division

2021
Lieutenant Mark Brown, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Marine Law Enforcement Section
Penny Kanable, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (ret.)
Peter Louzao, NASBLA Boat Operations & Training Program
Brad Williams, NASBLA Boat Operations & Training Program

2020
No award given.

2019
Charlie Sledd, Virginia
Everette Tucker, Jr. Virginia
Jeffrey S. Johnson, Alaska
Pauline Longnecker, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary 

2018
Liz Lodman, Montana

2017 
Keith Christopher, Boy Scouts of America
Eleanor Mariani, Director, Boating Division 
Herb Angell, BLA, Nebraska

2016
Richard Moore, Florida

2015
Brian Kempf, New York

2014
No Award Given.

2013
John Annino, Connecticut
James French, Washington

2012
Officer Tim Baumgarten, Arizona

2011
Jo Mogle, US Sailing

2010
John Malatak, U.S. Coast Guard’s Boating Safety Division
Pam Dillon, Ohio

2009
Vicki Rhodes, Delaware
Tim Smalley, Minnesota

2008
Virgil Chambers, Executive Director, National Safe Boating Council
Randy Edwards, Iowa
Augusto "Kiko" Villalon, Ancon Marine Consultants Inc.

2007
Bill Griswold, Captain (ret.), U.S. Coast Guard; U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary

2006
Fred Messmann, Nevada

2005
Ed Carter, Tennessee

2004
Jeanne Timmons, U.S. Coast Guard

2003
Paul Donheffner, Oregon
Ted Woolley, Utah

2002
Al Marmo, former Chief, U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Boating Safety
Gary T Myers, Executive Director, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
Mike Wilson, Arkansas

2001
Kim Elverum, Minnesota
Ed Jenkins, North Carolina
Bill Ladd, Outdoor Empire Publishing, U.S. Coast Guard (ret.)
Dale Morey, Wisconsin
Larry Rhinehart, Indiana

2000
Charlie Clark, Louisiana