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2023 — Lawrence J. Sima, CWD/PI
2022 — A. Scott Andres
2021 — James Doesburg
2021 — Ronnie Hensley
2020 — Mike Barcelona, Ph.D.*
2019 — Don Baron
2019 — Curtis King, CWD/PI
2019 — Mike Mehmert*
2019 — Albert Smith
2018 — John Pitz, CPI, NGWAF
2018 — Mickel “Mike” Wireman
2018 — William W. Woessner, Ph.D.
2017 — Daniel T. Meyer, MGWC, CVCLD
2017 — James Paulhus
2017 — Eileen Poeter, Ph.D., PE, NGWAF
2017 — John Schnieders, Ph.D.
2015 — Ken Wood
2014 — Henry Baski
2014 — Richard Henkle
2014 — Steven P. Maslansky, PG, CPG
2013 — Gregory D. Buffington, PE*
2013 — Leonard Konikow, Ph.D.
2013 — Evan Nyer
2012 — William Alley, Ph.D.
2012 — Leroy Goodson
2012 — Beverly Herzog, CGWP
2012 — Randy Lyne
2012 — Thomas Reilly, Ph.D.
2012 — Jose Joel Carrillo Rivera, Ph.D.
2011 — William Dauksza
2011 — James W. Goeke
2011 — Lee Orton
2011 — Bill C. Stoner
2011 — Charlie Waller, CPI
2010 — Mary P. Anderson, Ph.D.
2009 — Hans Olaf Pfannkuch, Ph.D.
2008 — Michael G. McDonald
2008 — Stavros S. Papadopulos, Ph.D., PE
2007 — Tommy C. Bussell
2007 — Emil Frind, Ph.D.
2007 — James P. Gibb
2007 — Glenn Lyons*
2007 — Allen F. Moench
2006 — Charles W. Fetter Jr., Ph.D.*
2006 — Wayne Madsen*
2006 — Dorothy L. Mixon Roberts
2006 — Thomas C. Winter*
2005 — Mary Jo Baedecker, Ph.D.
2005 — Charles W. Brinkley Jr., CWD/PI*
2005 — Emilio Custodio, Ph.D.
2005 — John Moore*
2005 — Wayne Westberg, MGWC*
2005 — Larry Whitesel
2004 — John Vecchioli
2003 — M. Ramon Llamas, Ph.D.
2003 — Michael Merritt
2003 — Adam Rinbrand Jr.*
2003 — John Schmitt, CWD/PI
2003 — Peter Sears*
2002 — Joseph Birman, Ph.D., CEG
2002 — Fletcher G. Driscoll, Ph.D., PG*
2002 — John Dufford
2002 — Carl Mason*
2002 — Joseph Proch, MGWC
2002 — David Keith Todd, Ph.D., PE*
2001 — Gordon D. Bennett
2001 — Howard ”Porky” Cutter, MGWC*
2001 — Robert Longenbaugh
2000 — Allan Freeze, Ph.D.
2000 — John Isbister*
2000 — Gerald Sherman
2000 — Thomas Stevens, CWD*
2000 — Peter Thein, MGWC
1999 — Stanley N. Davis, Ph.D.*
1999 — Ron Hiddleston, CWD
1998 — John A. Cherry, Ph.D.
1997 — John D. Bredehoeft, Ph.D.*
1997 — Walter Stockert*
1997 — Warren W. Wood, Ph.D.
1996 — George R. Kunkle, Ph.D.
1996 — David W. Miller
1996 — George C. Seibert Sr.*
1996 — John F. Sima
1996 — Becky Sterzing*
1995 — Worth Pickard*
1994 — Fred Salmon*
1993 — William Guyton
1993 — Ralphael Kazmann*
1993 — Richard K. Thompson
1993 — Jerome Wojtkiewicz, CWD
1992 — William Ashe*
1992 — Herman Bouwer*
1992 — Robert L. Clark*
1992 — Robert Collins*
1992 — Hilton Hayes
1992 — Ralph Heath*
1992 — Thomas Renner*
1991 — James J. Geraghty*
1991 — Edwin Huntoon*
1991 — Louis Mixon, CWD
1990 — Allen Agnew*
1990 — Francis Cox
1990 — Robert Scovill*
1990 — Taylor Virdell*
1989 — Howard Andrew*
1989 — W.C. Faison*
1989 — B.H. “Tiny” Gilstrap*
1989 — Garmon McCall*
1989 — Thomas A. Prickett*
1989 — Henry Troeller*
1988 — Keith Anderson*
1988 — Matthew Rorabaugh*
1988 — C.T. Sterzing*
1987 — Gordon Hahn*
1987 — Harold Meyer*
1987 — Harry LeGrand*
1986 — Calvin Falwell*
1986 — Sarah I. Vickers, CWD/PI*
1985 — E.H. Hartley, CWD/PI*
1985 — Adam Rinbrand*
1984 — Richard Vickers, CWD/PI*
1982 — William A. McEllhiney Sr.*
1980 — Robert Heater, MGWC*
1976 — A.E. Fawcett Jr.*
1971 — Floyd Oliver*
1965 — Sylvan Ames*