Illinois Award Recipients

1977 Clarence Klassen*

1978 Dr. W. D. Hatfield*

1979 John A. McElwain*

1980 Michael P. Mauzy

1981 Roy W. Roush*

1982 Stanley Whitebloom*

1983 Robert Will

1984 Carl Blomgren

1985 William Byers

1986 James Pappas

1987 James Carlisle

1988 Lawrence C. Cox

1989 Jon Olson

1990 Rep. Zeke Giorgi*

1991 William A. Macaitis

1992 Jacob Dumelle

1993 David R. Zenz

1994 James B. Park

1995 Frank E. Dalton

1996 Richard J. Kissel

1997 Tom McSwiggin

1998 Albin Pagorski

1999 Cecil Lue-Hing

2000 Greg Cargill       

2001 Ron Femal

2002 Robert Sheehan*

2003 Marcia Willhite

2004 John M. Callahan

2005 Jim Daugherty

2006 Roy Harsch

2007 Wally Van Buren

2008 Jim Garvey

2009 Dennis Streicher

2010 Dennis Duffield

2011 Tim Bachmann

2012 Kay Anderson

2013 Monte Cherry

2014 Rick Manner

2015 Fred Andes

2016 Al Keller

2017 Stan Browning

2018 Nick Menninga

2019 Bob Trueblood

2020 Cindy Skrukrud

2021 Brian Perkovich

2022 Gary Bingenheimer

2023 Albert Cox