Past Award Winners

APEX Award for Student Success 

• 2013 Kathleen M. Jones
• 2012 Christine A. Kerlin
• 2011 Kathi M. Baucom
• 2010 Margaret A. Bellon
• 2009 Mary Koskan
• 2008 Wayne Sigler
• 2007 Elizabeth Child
• 2006 Bruce Marton
• 2005 Glenn W. Munson
• 2004 Joe F. Head
• 2003 J. Tom Stewart
• 2002 Donald R. Larson
• 2001 Paul H. Anderson
• 2000 Jeanenne Rothenberger
• 1999 Paul Aucoin
• 1998 David H. Stones
• 1997 Patrick R. Forte

• 2024 LesLee Clauson Eicher
• 2023 Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert
• 2022 Ann Koenig
• 2020 Karee Head
• 2019 Jacquelyn Elliott
• 2017 Steve Seaworth
• 2015 Robert Watkins
  
• 2013 G. James Haas
  
• 2012 Nancy Keteku
  
• 2011 Johnny K. Johnson
  
• 2010 Linda Kosene
  
• 2010 Cliff Sjogren
  
• 2009 John Yopp
  
• 2008 William J. Paver
  
• 2007 Gloria Nathanson
  
• 2006 James S. Frey
  
• 2005 Leo J. Sweeney
  
• 2004 Axel Markert 
  

• 2023 Upper Midwest ACRAO UMACRAO Conversations
• 2021 Chesapeake & Potomac ACRAO (2020 Virtual Programming)
• 2019 Georgia ACRAO (Georgia Institute of SEM and GACRAO Enrollment Managers Workshop)
• 2019 Pacific ACRAO (PACRAO Leadership Development Institute)
• 2019 Ohio ACRAO (OACRAO Summer Institute)
• 2015 Wisconsin ACRAO (Veterans Certifying Workshop)
• 2014 Southern ACRAO (SACRAO Poster Sessions)
  
• 2013 Georgia ACRAO (GACRAO W.E.A.L.T.H.)
  
• 2012 Pacific ACRAO (PACRAO Review)
  
• 2011 Ohio ACRAO (Scholarship Program)
  
• 2010 Kentucky ACRAO (Transfer College Fairs)
  
• 2009 Ohio ACRAO (Membership and Mentoring)
  
• 2009 Kentucky ACRAO (College to College Electronic Transcript Exchange)
  
• 2008 New England ACRAO (Reverse College Day)
  
• 2008 Wisconsin ACRAO (First-Ever UMACRAO/WACRAO Joint Conference)
  
• 2008 Upper Midwest ACRAO (First-Ever UMACRAO/WACRAO Joint Conference)
  
• 2008 Michigan ACRAO (Michigan Transfer Network)
  
• 2007 Nebraska ACRAO (Nebraska On Wheels Bus Tour)
  
• 2006 Rocky Mountain ACRAO (A Year in the Life of RMACRAO)
  
• 2006 Georgia ACRAO (Enrollment Management Workshop)
  
• 2005 Pacific ACRAO (PACRAO Writers Group)
  
• 2004 Virginia ACRAO (The Virginia Tour)
  
• 2003 Kansas ACRAO (Planning for College Workshop)
  
• 2002 Texas ACRAO (Archived TACRAO Historical Records)
  
• 2001 Wisconsin ACRAO (Professional Development Committee Projects)
  
• 2001 West Virginia ACRAO (Summer Drive-in Retreat)
  
• 2001 Arizona ACRAO (Staff Development Workshop)
  
• 2000 Kansas ACRAO ("Mission Possible" Video)
  
• 2000 Southern ACRAO (Journal)
  
• 2000 Michigan ACRAO (Summer Articulation Conference)
  
• 1999 Kentucky ACRAO (Communication and Technology – a Website Show and Tell) 
  
• 1999 Nebraska ACRAO (NACRAO Board of Directors Retreat)
  
• 1999 Ohio ACRAO (OACRAO Website)
  
• 1998 Middle States ACRAO (MSACRAO Website)
  
• 1998 Pacific ACRAO (Program For Diversity)
  
• 1998 Carolina ACRAO (75th Anniversary Videotape)
  
• 1997 Michigan ACRAO (New Admissions Professional Workshop)
  
• 1997 Nebraska ACRAO (Clerical Workshop) 
  
• 1997 Ohio ACRAO (Records Fraud and Misrepresentation Workshop)
  
• 1996 Michigan ACRAO (FERPA Brochure [publication]) 
  
• 1996 Rocky Mountain ACRAO (Planning for a Successful State/Regional Meeting Manual [publication])
  
• 1995 Kansas ACRAO (“Quality Leadership” Scholarship Program)
  
• 1995 Nebraska ACRAO (Adventures in Higher Education [publication])
  
• 1995 Pacific ACRAO (Summer Access Seminar)
  
• 1995 Southern ACRAO (SACRAO Journal [publication])
  
• 1994 Kentucky ACRAO (Kentucky College and University Transcript Practices [publication]) 
  
• 1994 Texas ACRAO (Fraud Forum)
  
• 1993 Louisiana ACRAO (Articulation Workshop for High School Counselors and Recruiters)
  
• 1993 Michigan ACRAO (Support Staff of the Year Awards/Support Staff Workshop)
  
• 1993 Texas ACRAO (Texas Common Course Numbering System)
  
• 1992 Rocky Mountain ACRAO (Profile of Admissions and Registrars Offices and Institutional Characteristics)
  
• 1992 Southern ACRAO (Management of Student Information Workshop)
  
• 1992 Texas ACRAO (Newcomer Orientation and Mentoring Program)
  
• 1991 Carolina ACRAO (The Educational Consultants Program)
  
• 1991 Indiana ACRAO (A History of Indiana ACRAO)
  
• 1991 Kansas ACRAO (“The Varsity Team”)
  

• 2024 Susan Van Voorhis
• 2024 LeRoy Rooker
• 2024 David Kalsbeek
• 2023 Tina Falkner
• 2023 Andrew Hannah
• 2023 Sherry Waldon Wells
• 2022 Thomas Black
• 2022 Dennis Hicks
• 2021 Jerald Bracken
• 2021 Paul Kyle
• 2021 Mark McConahay
• 2021 Jerry Montag
• 2021 Nora McLaughlin
• 2020 John Hall
• 2020 Meredith Braz
• 2020 Robert Morley
• 2020 Sarah Harris
• 2020 Scott Dittman
• 2020 Wanda Simpson-Munson
• 2019 Shelby Stanfield
• 2019 Janie Barnett
• 2018 Eliott Baker
• 2018 Louise Lonabocker
• 2017 Brad Myers 
• 2017 Mary Neary Morley 
• 2017 Heather Smith
• 2016 Jeff von Munkwitz-Smith
• 2016 William R. Haid
• 2016 Bruce W. Cunningham
• 2016 Adrienne K. McDay
• 2016 Angé Peterson
• 2015 Stanley E. Henderson
• 2015 Katherine M. Beaty 
• 2015 Betty J. Huff
• 2015 Nancy Krogh
• 2014 Johnny W. Johnson
• 2014 Glenn W. Munson
• 2013 Paul Aucoin
• 2013 Robert K. Doolos
• 2013 Kathleen M. Jones
• 2013 Christine A. Kerlin
• 2013 Richard D. Skeel
• 2013 David H. Stones
• 2013 Richard L. Yount
• 2012 Michael Allen
• 2012 Mary E. Baxton
• 2012 Samuel D. Conte
• 2012 Kathleen G. Plante
• 2012 Jerome H. Sullivan
• 2011 Beth Tedrow
• 2011 James W. Blackburn
• 2010 Dennis J. Dulniak
• 2009 Jeanenne Rothenberger
• 2009 Gloria Nathanson
• 2008 Joseph A. Roof
• 2006 Thomas A. Bilger 
• 2006 Paul F. Taylor
• 2005 Wilbert E. Corprew
• 2005 R. Eugene Schuster
• 2005 S. Mark Strickland
• 2005 Beverly Lewis
• 2004 Georgeanne B. Porter 
• 2004 Gerald R. Pugh
• 2003 Nancy C. Sprotte
• 2003 J. Tom Stewart
• 2003 Jeffery M. Tanner
• 2002 Linda Y. Finley
• 2002 William J. Paver
• 2002 Richard A. Rainsberger
• 2001 Clifford Gillespie
• 2001 Mary Elisabeth Randall
• 2001 Donald G. Gwinn
• 2001 Paul H. Anderson
• 2000 Frederick A. Fresh
• 2000 Ken Bogard
• 2000 Gary L. Smith
• 2000 D. Jack Pommrehn
• 1999 Margaret Ruthven Perry 

• 2023 Carol Harrison
• 2023 Michele Sandlin
• 2022 Brad Myers
• 2021 Kimra Schipporeit
• 2018 Dennis Geyer
• 2018 Dennis Hicks
• 2017 Jeff von Munkwitz-Smith
• 2016 Susan Van Voorhis 
  
• 2016 Glenn Munson
  
• 2015 Betty J. Huff 
  
• 2014 William J. Paver 
  
• 2013 Robert K. Doolos
  
• 2012 Paul Kyle
  
• 2011 Kathleen G. Plante
  
• 2010 Virginia Johns
  
• 2009 Richard D. Skeel
  
• 2009 Kathleen M. Jones
  
• 2009 Heather C. Smith
  
• 2007 Stanley E. Henderson
  
• 2007 Louise Lonabocker
  
• 2005 James Black 
  
• 2004 William R. Haid 
  
• 2000 Clifford Gillespie
  
• 2000 Christine A. Kerlin 
  
• 2000 Ann Fletcher 
  
• 1999 Paul Aucoin 
  
• 1999 James Christiansen 
  
• 1999 John E. Westberry 
  
• 1998 Valerie H. Mead 
  
• 1998 Jeanenne Rothenberger 
  
• 1998 Orville Waltz 
  
• 1996 Mary M. Neary 
  
• 1994 Sara N. McNabb 
  
• 1994 Karlene N. Dickey 
  
• 1993 Rebecca R. Dixon 
  
• 1992 J. Tom Stewart 
  
• 1990 David H. Stones 
  
• 1989 Janet H. Doehlert 
  
• 1988 Cliff Sjogren 
  
• 1988 J. Douglas Conner 
  
• 1987 Lance Erickson 
  
• 1987 Elbert W. Ockerman 
  
• 1983 Stan Berry 
  
• 1983 John F. Collins, Jr. 
  
• 1982 M. D. Scherer 
  
• 1982 Herman F. Plunkett 
  
• 1981 Grady Boque 
  
• 1981 William Price 
  
• 1980 R. Linton Cox 
  
• 1979 C. James Quann 
  
• 1977 Loyd Oleson 
  
• 1976 Hattie Jarmon 
  
• 1976 Robert N. Melott 
  
• 1975 Hazel E. Benn 
  
• 1974 Richard D. Rowray 
  
• 1973 E. E. Oliver 
  
• 1971 Lee Wilcox 
  
• 1971 Clyde Vroman
  
• 1970 Albert L. Clary 
  
• 1969 Verner R. Ekstrom 
  
• 1968 Clifford L. Constance 
  
• 1967 Truman Pouncey 
  
• 1966 Neil Freeland 
  
• 1965 Clyde Vroman 
  
• 1964 Nelson M. Parkhurst 
  
• 1963 James E. Hitt 
  
• 1962 T. E. Kellogg 
  
• 1961 L. Joseph Lins
  
• 1960 William H. Strain 
  
• 1959 Robert E. Mahn
  

Awarded from 1959 to 2018 as the Distinguished Service Award

• 2024 Sasha Suzuki
• 2023 Katie Brown
• 2023 Erin Collins
• 2023 Michelle Tsigaridas Weller
• 2022 Brandy Piner
• 2021 Soraira Urquiza
• 2020 Erin Mason
• 2020 Steven McDowell
• 2020 Tiffani Robertson
• 2019 Rock McCaskill
• 2019 Texas Ruegg
• 2019 Leah McCormack
• 2018 Rajeev Jayadeva
• 2018 Kristin Waters
• 2018 Bianca Thompson-Owen
• 2017 Wayne Banks 
• 2017 Tiffany Robinson
• 2016 Karee Head
• 2016 Catherine Mund
• 2015 Rodney L. Parks
• 2014 Ingrid D. Nuttall*
• 2011 Nathan Fuerst*
• 2008 Luke D. Schultheis*
• 2007 Lee F. Furbeck*
• 2006 Melinda Roelfs*

*Awarded as Exemplary New Member Award

• 2012 Kenneth Ender
  
• 2012 Maria Moten
  
• 2012 Scott Verzyl
• 2011 Jane Dane
  
• 2011 Andrew Kim
  
• 2010 Brian Dalton
  
• 2010 Deborah Robinson
  
• 2009 Jody Gordon
  
• 2009 Scot Lingrell
  

• 2024 Marc Booker
• 2024 Erin Mason
• 2024 Brenda Schumann
• 2023 Jonathan Helm
• 2021 Seth Kamen
• 2021 Daniel Weber
• 2020 Steven Smith
• 2019 Karee Head
• 2018 Kristi Wold-McCormick
• 2018 Sarah Harris
• 2018 Cassandra Moore
• 2017 Tim Amyx
• 2017 Mark McConahay
• 2016 Lara S. Medley 
• 2015 Jack Miner
• 2015 V. Shelby Stanfield 
• 2014 Paul G. Wiley*
• 2014 William F. DeWolf^
• 2013 Joseph A. Roof*
• 2013 Katherine M.Beaty^
• 2012 Heather H. Eckstein*
• 2012 Dennis J. Hicks^
• 2011 Paul Aucoin*
• 2011 Tina M. Falkner^
• 2010 R. Gerald Pugh*
• 2010 Robert K. Doolos^
• 2010 Dorene L. Root^
• 2009 Dennis J Dulniak*
• 2009 Kathi M. Baucom^
• 2008 Kimra F. Schipporeit*
• 2008 Stanley E. Henderson*
• 2008 Heather H. Eckstein^
• 2007 Paul Anderson*
• 2007 Brad A. Myers^
• 2006 Mary K. Jones*
• 2006 Michael Allen^
• 2006 Carolyn Z. Bartlett*
• 2006 Michele Sandlin^

*Awarded as Founders for Leadership Award
^Awarded as Thomas A. Bilger Citation for Service 

• 2021 Allen Ezell
• 2021 Mark Hommerding
• 2019 Rosana Reyes
• 2018 Matt Fifolt
• 2017 Brandy Johnson
• 2016 Peggy Blumenthal
• 2015 Bob Bontrager 
• 2014 David A. Bergeron  
• 2014 Ann West

• 2024 Helen Garrett
• 2022 Rodney Parks
• 2021 Monique Snowden
• 2021 Nora McLaughlin