Special Recognition Award

NACWA’s Special Recognition Award is reserved for those occasions when an individual’s commitment and service to NACWA’s initiatives clearly make a difference.

2016 Honorees

Clean Water Services, OR
Sustainable Beer Smackdown

Theera Ratarasarn and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District, WI
Sustainable Beer Smackdown 

2015 Honoree

No Recipient

2014 Honoree

No Recipient

2013 Honoree

No Recipient

2012 Honorees

Michael Apgar
Former Director of Governmental Affairs, Sanitation District No. 1, KY

Jennifer Hosterman
Mayor, City of Pleasanton, CA; Co-Chair, U.S. Conference of Mayors: Mayors Water Council

Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
Mayor, City of Baltimore, MD, Co-Chair, U.S. Conference of Mayors: Mayors Water Council

American Council of Engineering Companies, American Public Works Association; and American Society of Civil Engineers
Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure

2011 Honoree

No Recipient

2010 Honoree

No Recipient

2009 Honoree

Massachusetts Coalition for Water Resources Stewardship

2008 Honoree

No Recipient

2007 Honoree

No Recipient

2006 Honorees

Marcia St. Martin
Director, Sewerage and Water Board New Orleans, La.

Curt Miller
General Manager, Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Wastewater Authority, Gautier, Miss.

Kamran Pahlavanm
Executive Director, Harrison County Wastewater & Solid Waste Management District, Gulfport, Miss.

Roberta “Robbie” Savage
Former Executive Director,  Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators (ASIWPCA), Washington, D.C.

2005 Honorees

Alan B. Rubin
Senior Scientist, Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

The New Jersey Harbor Dischargers Group (NJHDG)
New Jersey section of the NY/NJ Harbor Estuary

2004 Honoree

John M. Walker, Ph.D.
Former Senior Physical Scientist & Leader of Biosolids Program Implementation Team, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

2003 Honoree

Janet Pawlukiewicz
Director, Water Protection Task Force, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

2002 Honorees

Stephen P. Allbee
Project Director, Gap Analysis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Joel A. Miele, Sr.
Former Commissioner, New York City, Department of Environmental Protection, Corona, N.Y.

Jerry Johnson
General Manager, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (WASA), Washington, DC

2001 Honoree

No Recipient

2000 Honoree

Jon Schellpfeffer
Chief Engineer & Director, Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District, WI

1994 Honoree

Lee C. White
AMSA Outside General Counsel

1993 Honoree

Water Quality 2000
Cooperative efforts of more than 80 public, private and nonprofit groups

1993 Honoree

LaJuana Wilcher
Former Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency

1992 Honoree

America's Clean Water Foundation
Washington, DC

1990 Honoree

Preston B. Tack
First AMSA President