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
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