State Leadership Recipients

Each year, NAFEPA presents the State Leadership Award to NAFEPA members who have assumed significant roles in the support and promotion of CAASFEP activities and goals. CAASFEP has the opportunity to nominate up to five names annually for this award. The following individuals have been nominated and awarded a State Leadership Award:

• 1992: Ida Cate, Michael Berrigan,Robert Isenberg, Nobel Shade
• 1993: Lavinia Bornor
• 1994: Dorothy Harper, Elizabeth Pinkerton, Alice Petrossian, Sherry Silva Leonard, Mary Ann Weegar
• 1995: Willie Adkins, Paula Titus
• 1996: Carol Brush, Richard Graham
• 1997: Ron Fontaine, Elaine Irish (Hodges), Eleanor Small, Angela Watts
• 1998: James Hurst, Sandra Laub, Bonnie McFarland, Terri Minami, Sandra Sidwell
• 1999: Edmund Lee, Sherwin Low, Margaret Jones, Kathy Cooper, Debbie de Ganna
• 2000: Don Beard, Sandra Clifton Bacon, Irma Hernandez Larin, Roxie Knupp, Betty Walsh
• 2001: Cheryll Price,Mary Ellen de Santos, Terry Larsen, Raymond Tom, Carolyn Stuckey
• 2002: William Chavez, Henry Mothner, Fred Tempes, William Fukuhara, Carolyn Jones
• 2003: Rick Carder, Karen Chizek, Carol Catinari, Garciela Albiar-Gates, Linda Cook
• 2004: Dede Alpert, Keric Ashley, Pat Peterson, Debbie Rury
• 2005: Vicki Ann Bartelt, Diane Levin, Jan Mangels, Toni Oklan-Arko, Karen Ryback
• 2006: Russell Frank, Sandra Gonering
• 2007: Kris Flynn, Joanna Junge, Camille Maben, Kathy Payne
• 2008: Robin Schmitt, Bill Waroff, Patricia Rich, Joelle Delandtsheer
• 2009: Rachel Perry, Debbie Ernst
• 2010: Leslie Sharp, Raymond Dinkel
• 2011: Jorge Cuevas-Antillon, Jannelle Kubinec, Jami Larson, Paula Pendell, Paula Jameson-Whitney
• 2012: Bonnie McFarland
• 2013: Vanessa Galey, Linda Parker, Sandy Sidwell
• 2014: Mary Stires
• 2015: Keric Ashley, Cheryl Ingham, Todd Macy, Nancy Sedgwick, Wanda Shironaka
• 2016: Roberto Castro
• 2017: J. Jesus Contreras, Stephanie Wayment, Mindi Yates
• 2018: Diane Ehrle, Dr. Feliza I. Ortiz-Licon
• 2019: Amy Barker
• 2020: Adrienne Balcazar, Patricia Karlin, Cindy Kazanis, Leslie Sharp, Jenny Singh
• 2021: Rebecca Aguila, Brandi Jauregui, Jacqueline Matranga, Andrea Perez, & Rex Tschetter
• 2022: Peter Birdsall & Arthur Malicdem
• 2023: Bonnie McFarland, Anissa Sonenberg, Oluwole Olukoya, Lisa Winberg, Lisa Salas Brown