Previous Recipients

2025

Angela Boone, NASBLA

2024

No Award Given

2023

Seth Wagner, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (ret.)

2022

Alex Otte, Mothers Against Drunk Driving

2021
Captain Kenneth Ryan, New Jersey State Police Marine Unit
Amanda Pérez, BoatUS

2020

Lt. Derek Wallin, United States Coast Guard

2019

Lt. Col. Glenn Moates, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
Tom Hayward, Chief Financial Officer, NASBLA
Marlene Mason, Association Accountant, NASBLA

2018
Brian Korek, Korek Foundation
John Malatak, NASBLA
Virgil Chambers, Boating and Water Safety Consultant

2017
No recipient.

2016
Mike Evans, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
Matt Majors, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
Wayne Stacey, U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Boating Safety

2015
Rob Goley, Business Development Director – U.S. Federal Programs, SAFE Boats International
MariAnn McKenzie, Education Coordinator, Oregon State Marine Board

2014
John Adey, President, American Boat & Yacht Council

2013
Chief Rodger Norcross, Ohio BLA
Capt. Spencer Cole, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
John Johnson, CAE, NASBLA CEO
Ron Sarver, CAE, NASBLA Deputy Director
Darren Rider, Tennessee BLA

2012
Dave Dahms, Idaho BLA
Dan Hesket, Kansas BLA
Brian Kempf, New York BLA
Paul Niepling, District of Columbia BLA
Joel Wilkinson, Inland Maine BLA
Brad Williams, BOAT instructor

2011
Dick Lampheer, Mercury Marine (ret.), Engineering, Reporting & Analysis Committee

2010
Captain Mark Rizzo, Chief, U.S. Coast Guard Office of Auxiliary and Boating Safety
Ray Tsuneyoshi, former California BLA
Merlin Johns, former Oklahoma BLA & past NASBLA President
Dr. Deb Gona, NASBLA Staff 
Missouri State Water Patrol

2009
David R. Barber, Registration Bureau Chief (retired), Massachusetts Environmental Police
Randy Dill, retired Connecticut BLA, past NASBLA president (1990-91) and NASBLA boating accident investigation instructor
Dr. Carol Evans, Center for Asymmetric Warfare
Tammy Terry, Boat Accident Database Analyst, Ohio DNR Watercraft Division
Jeff Wheeler, Deputy Chief, U.S. Coast Guard Office of Boat Forces

2008
Mark DuPont, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission
Madelynn Fenske, Arizona Game & Fish Department
Rob Henry, National Transportation Safety Board
Al Johnson, Recreational Boating Safety Specialist, 1st Coast Guard District

2007
Audrey Pickup, U.S. Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety
Rick Barrera, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Bill Engfer, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Gary Haupt, Missouri Water Patrol
Betsy Woods, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency

2006
National Boating Federation
BoatU.S.
Bill Dance, Professional Angler
Randy Edwards, Boating Law Administrator, Iowa
Nancy Gogle, Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Carl Perry, U.S. Coast Guard

2005
John Cullather, House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Kim Elverum, Boating Law Administrator, Minnesota
Captain Scott Evans, U.S. Coast Guard
John Fetterman, Boating Law Administrator, Maine
Fred Messmann, Boating Law Administrator, Nevada
Jim Sartucci, Legislative Director for Senator Trent Lott, Mississippi
Michael Sciulla, BoatU.S.
VADM James Underwood, U.S. Coast Guard

2004
Ed Carter, Boating Law Administrator, Tennessee
Virgil Chambers, Executive Director, National Safe Boating Council
Bill Gossard, National Transportation Safety Board
Dave Marlow, Brunswick Boat Group
James Muldoon, Chairman, National Boating Safety Advisory Council
Ron Sarver, Staff, National Association of State Boating Law Administrators
Jeanne Timmons, Staff, U.S. Coast Guard Office of Boating Safety
Jack Wilson, United States Power Squadrons