Distinguished Service Award
Nominations are now closed.
The purpose of the National Court Reporters Association Distinguished Service Award is to encourage and to recognize work amounting to distinguished service by individual members of the National Court Reporters Association for the benefit of the reporting and captioning professions. That may include members who have worked in the background for many years to further the goals of our profession; who have devoted endless hours to NCRA or state association affairs; who have contributed articles to the JCR; or who have been active in the legislative or public relations fields over the years.
Nominations for the DSA may be submitted by NCRA voting members or by affiliated court reporting associations. Candidates must be a Registered Member of NCRA in good standing or a Registered Retired Member or Registered Retired Lifetime Member who was a member in good standing upon retirement.
The committee may direct that the name of any candidate or candidates not selected be carried forward for consideration by the next year's DSA committee. To make sure your candidate remains on the list, please submit his/her name each year!
Past Distinguished Service Award recipients
2023 |
Heidi C. Thomas |
2022 |
Sue Terry |
2021 |
Alan Peacock |
2020 |
No award in 2020 |
2019 |
Bruce A. Matthews |
2018 |
Heywood Waga |
2017 |
Nancy C. Varallo |
2016 |
William S. Greenley (posthumously) |
2015 |
Sandra B. VanderPol |
2014 |
Brenda L. Fauber |
2013 |
Ellen Corbett Hannum |
2012 |
Jerry Kelley |
2011 |
Arnella I. Sims |
2010 |
Forrest Brown |
2009 |
John Prout |
2008 |
Vicki Akenhead-Ruiz |
2007 |
J. Edward Varallo |
2006 |
Tammie Shedd |
2005 |
Lana M. Fruke |
2004 |
Judith H. Brentano |
2003 |
Jean Lea |
2002 |
Joseph Karlovits |
2001 |
Gary Cramer |
2000 |
Richard A. Sherman |
1999 |
Irving L. Starkman |
1998 |
Mae Glassbrenner |
1997 |
Merilyn A. Sanchez |
1996 |
Dennis Hagestrom |
1995 |
Shirley Houston |
1994 |
Robert H. Clark |
1993 |
Richard Heilig |
1992 |
Sandra McFate |
1991 |
Al Weinstein |
1990 |
Nancy Patterson |
1989 |
Frank O. Nelson |
1988 |
Harold Krabbenhoft |
1987 |
Doris Wong |
1986 |
Mary Knapp |
1985 |
Frank Sarli |
1984 |
Richard E. Peppey (posthumously) |
1983 |
Harry Foster |
1982 |
Richard Smith |
1981 |
Samuel A. Fitz-Henley |
1980 |
Mary Louise Gilman |
1979 |
Sally J. Cochran |
1978 |
Irving Kosky |
1977 |
M. Eugene Olsen |
1976 |
Casey B. Smith |
1975 |
Robert B. Morse |
1974 |
Mabel Snodgrass |
1973 |
R. Forrest Brenner |
1972 |
Joseph J. Sweeney |
1971 |
Vivien R. Spitz |
1970 |
Rosemary K. Overstreet |
1969 |
William Cohen |
1968 |
Roy E. Voelker |
1967 |
Nathaniel Weiss |
1966 |
J.L. McAtee |
1965 |
Ray J. Lerschen |
1964 |
Tula C. LeWald |
1963 |
Francis J. McSwiggan |
1962 |
Rachel M. (Smith) Lerschen |
1961 |
Nathan Behrin |
1960 |
Richard Mowers |