Top Ten Public Works Leaders of the Year: 1960 to Present

 

An integral part of APWA’s celebration of National Public Works Week is the announcement of the Top Ten Public Works Leaders of the Year. What follows is a list of public works professionals who have received the Top Ten award since 1960, the year in which the program began.

 

1960

Samuel S. Baxter, Commissioner and Chief Engineer, Water Department, Philadelphia, PA

David L. Erickson, Director, Department of Public Works and Utilities, Lincoln, NE

Lloyd D. Knapp, Commissioner, Department of Public Works, Milwaukee, WI

John A. Lambie, County Engineer, Los Angeles County, CA

Roy W. Morse, City Engineer, Seattle, WA

Rear Admiral Eugene J. Peltier, Chief, Bureau of Yards and Docks, U.S. Navy, Washington, D.C.

Glenn C. Richards, Commissioner, Department of Public Works, Detroit, MI

Paul R. Screvane, Commissioner, Department of Sanitation, New York, NY

Bertram D. Tallamy, Federal Highway Administrator, U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, Washington, D.C.

Rex M. Whitton, Chief Engineer, Missouri State Highway Department, Jefferson City, MO

 

1961

David V. Auld, Director of Sanitary Engineering, Government of the District of Columbia

Henry A. Barnes, Commissioner of Transit and Traffic, Baltimore, MD

Hugh A. Benner, Director of Public Works, Saginaw, MI

William A. Bugge, Director, Washington State Department of Highways

George L. DeMent, Commissioner of Public Works, Chicago, IL

Robert H. Hess, Director of Water and Sewage, Wichita, KS

David B. Lee, Director, Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, Florida State Board of Health

Eugene Maier, Director of Public Works and Engineering, Houston, TX

Jean L. Vincenz, Director of Public Works, San Diego County, CA

Brig. Gen. Alvin C. Welling, U.S. Corps of Engineers

 

1962

Ralph R. Bartelsmeyer, Chief Highway Engineer, Illinois Department of Public Works and Buildings, Springfield, IL

Edgar W. Blom, Assistant City Manager, San Diego, CA

Edward J. Cleary, Executive Director and Chief Engineer, Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, Cincinnati, OH

Dewitt C. Greer, State Highway Engineer, Texas Highway Department, Austin, TX

William E. Hedges, Director of Public Works, Springfield, MO

William D. Hurst, City Engineer and Commissioner of Buildings, Winnipeg, MB

Gerald J. Remus, General Manager and Chief Engineer, Department of Water Supply, Detroit, MI

Paul L. Weir, General Manager and Director of Engineering, Atlanta Water Works, Atlanta, GA

William C. Wichman, Director of Public Works, Cincinnati, OH

Lt. General W. K. Wilson, Jr., Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, Washington, D.C.

 

1963

Gordon E. Bodien, City Engineer, Minneapolis, MN

Ross L. Clark, Commissioner of Works, Metropolitan Toronto, ON

Walter E. Gerdel, Commissioner, Division of Sewage Disposal, Cleveland, OH

Henry J. Graeser, Superintendent, Water Works, Dallas, TX

Albert B. Kaltenbach, Director of Public Works, Baltimore County, MD

John M. Kyle, Jr., Chief Engineer, Port of New York Authority

Gordon E. McCallum, Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.

Lyall A. Pardee, City Engineer, Los Angeles, CA

Jasper C. Womack, State Highway Engineer, State of California

Albert G. Wyler, Director of Streets, New Orleans, LA

 

1964

Vinton W. Bacon, General Superintendent, Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago

Lucien L’Allier, Chairman and General Manager, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Montreal, QC

J. Burch McMorran, Superintendent of Public Works, New York State

Edward J. Morgan, Manager and Chief Engineer, Board of Water Supply, City and County of Honolulu, HI

Robert W. Neilson, Director of Public Works, Winston-Salem, NC

Blucher A. Poole, Director, Bureau of Environmental Sanitation, Indiana State Board of Health, and Technical Secretary, Indiana Stream Pollution Control Board

Victor W. Sauer, Public Works Director, Contra Costa County, CA

Harris F. Seidel, Director, Water and Pollution Control Department, Ames, IA

Alonzo C. Taylor, Regional Engineer, U.S. Bureau of Public Roads, Fort Worth, TX

James D. Wright, Director of Public Works, Lynchburg, VA

 

1965

Herman L. Danforth, Public Works Director, Tucson, AZ

Sam Granata, Jr., Director of Public Works, San Antonio, TX

Stafford W. Graydon, Sanitary Engineer, Department of Sanitary Engineering, Atlanta, GA

Francis D. Lyons, Jr., Director, Oklahoma Department of Highways

Captain Norman M. Martinsen, Director of Facilities Management, U.S. Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks, Washington, D.C.

Robert J. McLeod, Chief Engineer, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Hyattsville, MD

Samuel B. Nelson, General Manager and Chief Engineer, Department of Water and Power, Los Angeles, CA

Bernard T. Van Wormer, Director of Public Works, Salem, OR

Henry B. Wildschut, Director of Public Works and County Highway Commissioner, Milwaukee County, WI

Walter F. Winters, County Engineer, King County, WA

 

1966

Charles W. Beagle, Director of Public Works, Woodbridge, NJ

Arthur D. Caster, Director of Water Pollution Control, Cincinnati, OH

Floyd E. Dominy, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, D.C.

Fred Glendening, Director of Public Works, Phoenix, AZ

Francisco Lizardi, Secretary of Public Works, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Francis S. Lorenz, Director of Public Works and Buildings, State of Illinois

Thomas E. Maxson, City Engineer, Memphis, TN

Raymond D. Nixon, Director of Public Utilities, Colorado Springs, CO

David K. Speer, Surveyor and Road Commissioner, San Diego County, CA

Bernard L. Werner, Director of Public Works, Baltimore, MD

 

1967

Thomas J. Airis, Director of Highways and Traffic, Washington, D.C.

Amos J. Alter, Chief Engineer, Alaska Department of Health and Welfare

Jean-V. Arpin, Department of Roads, Montreal, QC

John C. Duba, Commissioner, Department of Development and Planning, Chicago, IL

Ralph E. Graham, Director of Utilities, San Diego, CA

Russell E. Helms, Director of Public Works, Oklahoma City, OK

Pearl E. Masheter, Director, Ohio Department of Highways

Ben E. Nutter, Executive Director and Chief Engineer, Port of Oakland, CA

Lorentz P. Pederson, County Engineer, Hennepin County Highway Department, MN

Rear Admiral Paul E. Seufer, Civil Engineering Corps, U.S. Navy, Vietnam

 

1968

Lt. General William F. Cassidy, Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C.

Herbert G. Crowle, Director of Public Works, County of Alameda, Hayward, CA

Claud R. Erickson, Director and General Manager, Lansing Board of Water and Light, Lansing, MI

Edward F. Gabrielson, City Engineer, San Diego, CA

Herbert A. Goetsch, Commissioner of Public Works, Milwaukee, WI

Glen J. Hopkins, Director of Water and Pollution Control, Kansas City, MO

John O. Morton, Commissioner, New Hampshire Department of Public Works and Highways, Concord, NH

Charles E. Shumate, Chief Engineer, Colorado Department of Highways, Denver, CO

David M. Smallwood, Street Commissioner, Philadelphia, PA

Glen A. Yake, Director of Public Works and Utilities, Spokane, WA

 

1969

Charles E. Ash, Director of Public Works, St. Clair County, Port Huron, MI

John A. Bruce, Director of Engineering, Department of Public Works, City and County of Denver, CO

Ray W. Burgess, Director of Public Works, City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, LA

Joseph F. Friedkin, United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, El Paso, TX

David G. Hammond, Director of Development and Operations, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, San Francisco, CA

Everett G. Henry, Executive Secretary, Board of Public Works, City of Seattle, WA

Alger F. Malo, Director, Department of Streets and Traffic, City of Detroit, MI

Ellis L. Mathes, State Highway Engineer, Idaho Department of Highways, Boise, ID

William D. Phears, Deputy Commissioner of Public Works, Town of Hempstead, NY

Milton Pikarsky, Commissioner of Public Works, City of Chicago, IL

 

1970

Robert G. Bartlett, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Highways

Bernard P. Bellport, Chief Engineer, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO

Cedric Boyd, Director of Public Works, New Bern, NC

Jan B. Carter, Director of Public Works, Little Rock, AR

Sam H. Hobbs, Director of Public Works, Bloomington, MN

Farrell McLean, Superintendent of Water and Sewage, Carlsbad, NM

John H. Marburger, Jr., Administrator of Public Works, Prince George’s County, MD

John D. Parkhurst, Chief Engineer and General Manager, County Sanitation Districts, Los Angeles County, CA

Ralph C. Pickard, Executive Secretary, Air Pollution Control Commission, Kentucky State Department of Health

S. Myron Tatarian, Director of Public Works, City and County of San Francisco, CA

 

1971

Ellis L. Armstrong, Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of the Interior

Louis E. Bender, Chief of the Traffic Engineering Division, Port of New York Authority, NY

Joseph R. Coupal, Jr., Director of Highways, Iowa State Highway Commission, Ames, IA

Reed A. Elliot, Director of Water Control Planning, Tennessee Valley Authority

Charles V. Gibbs, Executive Director, Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle, WA

Everett R. Kennedy, Superintendent of Public Works, Wellesley, MA

Allen S. Koch, Road Commissioner and County Surveyor, Orange County Road Department, Santa Ana, CA

Roger E. Krempel, Director of Public Works, Janesville, WI

John A. Legarra, State Highway Engineer, California Division of Highways

Antonio Santiago-Vázquez, Secretary of Public Works, Puerto Rico

 

1972

Arnold O. Chantland, Public Works Director, Ames, IA

Jacob Dekema, District Engineer, California Division of Highways

William E. Korbitz, Manager, Metropolitan Denver Sewage Disposal District, Denver, CO

Martin Lang, Commissioner, Department of Water Resources, Environmental Protection Administration, New York, NY

James L. Martin, Public Works Director, Fresno, CA

Peter F. Mattei, Executive Director, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, St. Louis, MO

James J. McDonough, Commissioner, Department of Streets and Sanitation, Chicago, IL

Marcel G. Stragier, Director of Public Works, Scottsdale, AZ

Francis C. Turner, Federal Highway Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Gerald B. Williams, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Canada Department of Public Works

 

1973

Myron D. Calkins, Director of Public Works, Kansas City, MO

Robert C. Esterbrooks, County Engineer, Maricopa County, Phoenix, AZ

William R. Gianelli, Director, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA

Robert H. Goodin, Director of Public Works, Glencoe, IL

John C. Guillou, Chief Waterway Engineer, Illinois Division of Water Resource Management, Springfield, IL

Arthur E. Knutson, Public Service Director, Kirkland, WA

Michael R. Pender, Commissioner of Public Works, Town of Hempstead, Hempstead, NY

Arthur F. Sampson, Acting Administrator, U.S. General Services Administration, Washington, D.C.

David H. Stevens, Commissioner, Maine Department of Transportation, August, ME

Fritz Zapf, Director of Public Works, Pasadena, CA

 

1974

George H. Andrews, Director of Highways, Washington State Highway Commission

Frank E. Ayers, Works Commissioner, Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, ON

Harvey T. Brandt, County Engineer, County of Los Angeles, CA

Herbert O. Klossner, County Engineer, Hennepin County, MN

George T. Lohmeyer, Director of Utilities, City of Fort Lauderdale, FL

Arthur W. Mazowiecki, Superintendent of Public Works, City of Clifton, NJ

Maj. Gen. George A. Rebh, Chief of Military Construction, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Horace L. Smith, Director of Wastewater Control, City and County of Denver, CO

Thomas M. Sullivan, Executive Director, Dallas/Fort Worth Regional Airport Board

Anthony R. Turturici, Director of Public Works, City of San José, CA

 

1975

J. Garth Anderson, Director of Public Works, Vancouver, WA

James E. Attebery, City Engineer, Phoenix, AZ

Raymond M. Bremner, Commissioner of Public Works, Toronto, ON

Sam M. Cristofano, Director of Public Works, Santa Clara, CA

Edwin J. Duszynski, Director of Public Works, Madison, WI

Douglas B. Fugate, Commissioner, Virginia Department of Highways and Transportation

Donald B. Head, Director of Public Works, County of Sonoma, CA

John J. Hennigan, Jr., Deputy Commissioner of Public Works, Onondaga County, NY

John A. Teipel, Director, Street and Sanitation Services, Dallas, TX

C. Larry Unland, President, Board of Public Service, St. Louis, MO

 

1976

Joe H. Berrier, Director of Public Works, Winston-Salem, NC

Enos B. Cape, Director of Public Works, Houston, TX

Jean L. DeSpain, Director of Public Works, King County, WA

Robert A. MacEwen, Director of Public Works, Needham, MA

Thomas D. Moreland, Commissioner and State Highway Engineer, Georgia Dept. of Transportation

James T. Pott, Director, Transportation Agency, County of Santa Clara, CA

Capt. William F. Reed, Jr., Deputy Commander for Facilities Management, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Dept. of the Navy

Walter A. Schaefer, Director of Public Works, Maplewood, NJ

Marshall Suloway, Commissioner of Public Works, Chicago, IL

Donald H. Swets, Director of Public Works, Kalamazoo, MI

 

1977

Raymond A. Beck, Director of Public Works, Columbia, MO

Harold P. Cahill, Jr., Director, Municipal Construction Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Henry E. Drumwright, Director, Department of Building Services, Dallas, TX

Lloyd C. Fowler, Chief Engineer, Santa Clara Valley Water District, San José, CA

David A. Gwynn, Chief Engineer, Transportation Operations, New Jersey Department of Transportation, Trenton, NJ

Robert S. Hopson, Director of Public Works, Charlotte, NC

Richard H. Jann, Director of Public Works, Eau Claire, WI

Burton J. Peckham, Director of Public Works, Minot, ND

James D. Phillips, Director, Department of Public Utilities, Colorado Springs, CO

Donald C. Tillman, City Engineer, Los Angeles, CA

 

1978

Lewis H. Blakey, Deputy Director for Technology and Engineering, Facilities Engineering Directorate, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C.

James A. Clear, Jr., Director of Public Works, City of Elizabethton, TN

Heinz Heckeroth, Assistant Director for Highways, California Department of Transportation, Sacramento, CA

Charles L. Kimberling, Manager of Engineering, Water and Sewer Department, City of Tulsa, OK

Edward A. Mueller, Executive Director, Jacksonville Transportation Authority, Jacksonville, FL

Forrest C. Neil, Chief Engineer, Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, Chicago, IL

Rikio Nishioka, State Public Works Engineer, State of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Gerald Schwerm, Village Manager/Engineer, Village of Brown Deer, WI

Donald M. Somers, Director of Public Works, City of Sunnyvale, CA

Paul A. Wiatrak, City Engineer, City of Seattle, WA

 

1979

Frank C. Bohlander, Commissioner of Public Works for Westchester County, NY

Calvin G. Grayson, Secretary of the Kentucky Department of Transportation

George Hodge, City Engineer and General Manager of the Engineering Department, Edmonton, AB

Don D. Hurlbert, City Engineer, Kansas City, MO

F. Worth Landers, Commissioner of Public Works, Worcester, MA

Thornton E. Piersall, Public Works Executive Director, Anaheim, CA

Harold E. Smith, City Engineer, Des Moines, IA

Ellis L. Spencer, City Engineer, Chattanooga, TN

Scott Tucker, Executive Director of the Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, Denver, CO

Dale H. Twachtmann, Administrator of Water Resources and Public Works, Tampa, FL

 

1980

Dean P. Amidon, Commissioner of Public Works, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

Arthur D. Bird, Director of Public Works, Cincinnati, OH

Robert W. Brannan, Deputy Director of Public Works, Milwaukee County, WI

Roger K. Brown, Commissioner of Works, Borough of Scarborough, ON

Linden R. Burzell, General Manager/Chief Engineer, San Diego County Water Authority, San Diego, CA

Frank P. Koczur, Director of Public Works and City Engineer, Rahway, NJ

William D. Lamb, Jr., Director of Public Works, Nashville and Davidson County, TN

Thomas P. Smith, Director of Underground Utilities, Tallahassee, FL

Ralph E. Speer, Jr., Director of Public Works, Newport News, VA

John P. Woodford, Director of Transportation, Lansing, MI

 

1981

Richard P. Braun, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Transportation, St. Paul, MN

Robert F. Fisher, Director of Public Service, Canton, OH

Francis W. Kuchta, Director of Public Works, Baltimore, MD

James E. McCarty, Director of Public Works, Oakland, CA

Michael J. E. Sheflin, Transportation Commissioner, Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, ON

Richard L. Straub, Director of Public Works and County Engineer, Jefferson County, AL

Thomas E. Taylor, Director of Water Utilities, Dallas, TX

Kells Waggoner, Director of Public Works, Englewood, CO

Lowell O. Weeks, General Manager and Chief Engineer, Coachella Valley Water District, Coachella, CA

Max L. Whitman, Superintendent of Public Works and Village Engineer, Winnetka, IL

 

1982

Arthur E. Bruington, General Manager, Irvine Ranch Water District, Irvine, CA

Donald I. Hackney, Director of Sanitation, Savannah, GA

Edward M. Hall, Street Transportation Administrator, Phoenix, AZ

John B. Kemp, Secretary of Transportation, State of Kansas, Topeka, KS

Owen Miyamoto, Chief, Airports Division, State of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Pat Nevins, Director of Public Works and City Engineer, Auburn, WA

Benjamin C. Pratt, Director, Division of Transportation and Public Works, Lee County, Fort Meyers, FL

Raymond R. Rimkus, Chief of Maintenance and Operations, Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, Chicago, IL

David G. Snider, Director of Public Works, Springfield, MO

Richard Vanier, Director of Public Works and Chief Engineer, Montreal, QC

 

1983

Lloyd E. Anderson, Executive Director, Port of Portland, Portland, OR

William H. Curtis, City Engineer, Vancouver, BC

Allan Dieckgraefe, Director of Public Works, University City, MO

Henry S. Hulme, Jr., Director of Public Works, Arlington County, Arlington, VA

Dr. Thomas J. Larson, Secretary of Transportation, State of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

Donald F. Lloyd, Director of Public Works, Idaho Falls, ID

Bruce McClain, Public Works Director, Monterey County, Salinas, CA

Jimmie A. Schindewolf, Director of Public Works, Houston, TX

Norman Steisel, Commissioner, Department of Sanitation, New York, NY

Sigmund C. Ziejewski, District Engineer, Illinois Department of Transportation, Schaumburg, IL

 

1984

Granville Bowman, Director of Public Works, Clark County, NV

W. Larry Eddins, Manager, Water and Sewer System, Fayetteville, TN

Frank J. Horgan, Commissioner of Works, Municipality of Metro Toronto, ON

Allan L. Kimbel, City Engineer, Olympia, WA

Robert H. Kleinweber, Director of Public Works, Lakewood, OH

Robert H. Miller, Director of Public Works, Schaumburg, IL

Donald E. Nygaard, Director of Public Works, St. Paul, MN

Philip T. Rutledge, Director of Public Works, Henrico County, VA

Dean Sloan, Public Works Manager, Mesa, AZ

Leo J. Trombatore, Director of Transportation, State of California

 

1985

Allen A. Alsing, Director of Public Works, Ashland, OR

William Amundson, Director of Public Works, Sioux City, IA

James P. Casey, Director of Engineering and Development, San Diego, CA

R. Terry Holzworth, Director, Salt Lake County Flood Control, Salt Lake City, UT

Leon P. Lancaster, Director of Public Works, Clovis, CA

William J. Marrazzo, Water Commissioner, Philadelphia, PA

Commodore Benjamin F. Montoya, Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Western Division, San Bruno, CA

Allen Sander, Director of Public Works, Arlington Heights, IL

Donald R. Vonnahme, Director, Illinois Department of Transportation, Division of Water Resources, Springfield, IL

Robert A. Welin, Commissioner of Operations, Calgary, AB

 

1986

Richard A. Erixson, Director of Public Works, Lincoln, NE

Kazuyoshi Hayashida, Manager and Chief Engineer, Honolulu Board of Water Supply, Honolulu, HI

William K. Hellmann, Secretary of Transportation, Maryland Department of Transportation, Baltimore, MD

Michael M. Randolph, Director of Community Development and Services, Pacifica, CA

Richard E. Rohrbach, Township Engineer, Township of Cherry Hill, NJ

R. Michael Salmon, Administrator of Water Resources and Public Works, Tampa, FL

Richard K. Sandaas, Director, Technical Services Department, Municipality of Metropolitan Seattle, WA

James Soyka, Director of Engineering, Deerfield, IL

Thomas A. Tidemanson, Director of Public Works, Los Angeles County Department of Public Works

Walter V. White, Superintendent, Water Pollution Control, Painesville, OH

 

1987

Chester J. Funnyé, Commissioner of Public Works, Atlanta, GA

Roger Gagnon, Director of Public Works, Québec City, QC

Gordon R. Garner, Executive Director, Louisville and Jefferson County Metropolitan Sewer District, Louisville, KY

Barbara S. Gole, Director, Department of Public Works, Indianapolis, IN

Lieutenant General E.R. (Vald) Heiberg III, Chief of Engineers and Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C.

Ronald W. Jensen, Public Works Director, Phoenix, AZ

Donald J. LaBelle, Director, King County Department of Public Works, Seattle, WA

Richard C. Mangnall, Director of Public Works and City Engineer, Tulare, CA

Stephen T. Pudloski, Director of Public Works, Evanston, IL

Edward F. Watson, Deputy Commissioner of Environmental Services, Rochester, NY

 

1988

George R. Bonnett, Director of Public Works, Wichita Falls, TX

Francis E. Brink, City Engineer/Public Works Administrator, Aberdeen, SD

Frank E. Dalton, General Superintendent, Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago, Chicago, IL

Charles V. Honchell, Director of Public Works, Roseville, MN

David A. Kuemmel, Commissioner of Public Works, Milwaukee, WI

C. Oral Lambert, Jr., Director of Public Works, Virginia Beach, VA

Richard D. Morgan, Executive Director, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, D.C.

Carl R. Nelson, Director of Public Works, Orange County/Environmental Management Agency, Santa Ana, CA

Richard L. Ridings, Assistant City Manager/Public Works, Oklahoma City, OK

A.J. Schwinghamer, City Engineer, Moose Jaw, SK

 

1989

Vijay Bhasin, Director of Public Works, Creve Coeur, MO

Roger Clark, Director of Public Works, Kingsport, TN

Edward Y. Hirata, Director, Hawaii Department of Transportation, Honolulu, HI

Robert S. Horii, City Engineer, Los Angeles, CA

George Knecht, Managing Engineer, Solid Waste Disposal Division, Jacksonville, FL

Max G. Peterson, City Engineer, Salt Lake City, UT

S. Robert Pryzby, Director of Public Works, Glastonbury, CT

Lt. Col. Earnest O. Robbins III, Director, Operations and Maintenance, Tyndall Air Force Base, FL

William B. Sands, Director of Public Works, Decatur, IL

Evelyn L. Waldrop, Director, Physical and Environmental Services, Jefferson County Government, Louisville, KY

 

1990

Peter Connell, Director, Engineering and Works, Halifax, NS

Richard J. Evans, Director of Public Works, City and County of San Francisco, CA

Lieutenant General Henry Hatch, Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C.

Jim Jones, Public Works Director, Tempe, AZ

William Klosterman, City Manager, Middletown, OH

Thomas H. Neel, Director, Department of Utilities, Anne Arundel County, MD

James P. Pitz, Director, Michigan Department of Transportation, Lansing, MI

James C. Ray, Sr., Chief, Transportation Division, Sacramento County Department of Public Works, Sacramento, CA

John Scheltens, City Engineer/Public Works Director, Hot Springs, SD

Carl E. Wills, Director of Public Works, High Point, NC

 

1991

Delwin A. Biagi, Director, Bureau of Sanitation, Los Angeles, CA

James E. Blair, Public Works Director, Benton County, OR

Michael T. Cousino, Director of Public Works, Olmsted County, MN

Orville R. Davidson, Director of Public Works, York, NE

Jesus M. Garcia, District Director, California Department of Transportation

William R. Hogge, City Engineer/Director of Public Works, Plainview, TX

Antonio E. Medina, Sub-Administrator of the General Services Administration in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Gene L. Neff, Director of Public Works, Baltimore County, MD

Rear Admiral Bill F. Pearson, Chief Engineer, U.S. Public Health Service

Ralph C. Wehner, Director of Highways, Illinois Department of Transportation, Springfield, IL

 

1992

Edmund G. Archuleta, General Manager, El Paso Water Utilities, El Paso, TX

George G. Balog, Director of Public Works, City of Baltimore, MD

Jerry J. Fay, Executive Director, State of Washington Transportation Improvement Board

J. Dale Hawley, City Manager, City of Bakersfield, CA

Alan B. Ispass, Director of Public Utilities, Orange County, FL

René Morency, Public Works Director, Montreal, QC

Bill E. Polasek, Jr., Director of Utilities and Public Works, City of Seguin, TX

Jerry Trumps, Director of Public Works, City of Lafayette, LA

Erling A. Tufte, Ph.D., Director of Public Works, City of Great Falls, MT

Howard Yerusalim, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

 

1993

Robert R. Albee, Director of Construction Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Highway Department, Boston, MA

Larry A. Blair, Executive Engineer, Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority, Albuquerque, NM

Robert G. Ferguson, Commissioner, Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, Toronto, ON

Charles L. Hardt, Public Works Director and Chief Operations Officer, City of Tulsa, OK

Doug Harrison, General Manager-Secretary, Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District, Fresno, CA

Benny O. Lendermon III, Director, Division of Public Works, City of Memphis, TN

James H. Matteson, Director, Street Transportation Dept., City of Phoenix, AZ

Jack N. Pittis, Director of Public Works, City of Port Angeles, WA

William A. Sterling, Director of Public Works, City of Greeley, CO

Robert O. Watkins, Chief Deputy Director, California Dept. of Transportation, Sacramento, CA

 

1994

Alan D. Archibald, Director of Engineering Services/City Engineer, Encinitas, CA

Matthew Dominy, Director of Public Works, Torrington, CT

Thomas Eggum, City Engineer, Saint Paul, MN

Les Eighmey, Director, Road and Street Department, Hillsborough County, FL

John Flora, Director of Public Works/City Engineer, Fridley, MN

Russell A. Gronevelt, Director of Public Services, Wayne County, MI

Miles Black Hadley, City Manager, Columbia, SC

Stephen B. Lester, District Engineer, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Philadelphia, PA

Jerry E. Petty, Director of Community Development and City Engineer, Manhattan, KS

Thomas W. Talsma, Director of Public Works, Geneva, IL

 

1995

David H. Barber, Director of Public Works, City of Evanston, IL

Paul H. Brum, City Engineer and Public Works Director, Oklahoma City, OK

Thomas A. Colbert, Director of Public Works, City of Eagan, MN

R. Marshall Elizer, Jr., Director of Public Works and Transportation, City of Modesto, CA

Don C. Kelly, Secretary of the Kentucky State Transportation Cabinet

John E. Leszczynski, Director of Public Works and Transportation, City of South Bend, IN

Frank Miller, Executive Director, Virginia Peninsulas Public Service Authority

Leonard E. Phillips, Jr., Superintendent of Parks and Trees, Wellesley Hills, MA

Arun M. Shirole, Director of Structures and Deputy Chief Engineer, New York State Department of Transportation

John Touchstone, Director of Public Works for Broward County, FL

 

1996

Ned P. Becker, City Engineer/Director of Public Works, City of Naperville, IL

A. Wayne Collins, Deputy State Engineer, Arizona Department of Transportation

James W. French, Director of Public Works, Lee County, FL

Ronald A. Hellbusch, Director of Public Works & Utilities, City of Westminster, CO

James C. Kaminski, Commissioner of Public Works, City of Milwaukee, WI

Colonel Brian J. Ohlinger, Director of Public Works, Fort Eustis, VA

David A. Rhodes, Director of Public Works, City of Boulder, CO

Manabu Tagomori, Manager/Chief Engineer, Division of Water & Land Development, Department of Land & Natural Resources, State of Hawaii

J. Michael Walford, Public Works Director, Contra Costa County, CA

Alvin D. Wansing, Utilities Director, City of Springfield, OH

 

1997

Paul M. Bowers, Town Engineer/Director, Wastewater & Compost Management, Amherst, NY

Rudolph Davidson, Director, Department of Solid Waste Management & Services, Louisville, KY

Ron Herrington, Director, Traffic Engineering, Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, Lexington, KY

John P. Hoffstatter, Public Works Director, Moline, IL

Dale L. Houdeshell, Manager, Public Works Services Group, St. Peters, MO

Steven R. Magnusen, Director of Public Works, Libertyville, IL

William D. O’Neill, President, Civil Engineering, Fuss & O’Neill, Inc., Manchester, CT

Larry Southwick, Assistant Director of Utilities, Bellevue, WA

Elizabeth Treadway, Environmental Services Director, Greensboro, NC

Thomas W. Trice, Director, Recreation & Public Service, Royal Oak, MI

 

1998

John Benda, Manager of Maintenance and Traffic, Illinois State Toll Highway Authority

Henry Henderson, Commissioner, Chicago Department of Environment, Chicago, IL

Fred L. Kloepper, Wastewater Manager, Public Works Department, City of Bakersfield, CA

Martin Manning, Director of Public Works, Clark County Public Works, Las Vegas, NV

Lawrence M. Moy, Commissioner, Philadelphia Department of Streets, Philadelphia, PA

Robert L. Moylan, Commissioner of Public Works, City of Worcester, MA

John Ostrowski, Public Works Director, City of Vancouver, WA

Philip Pindzola, Public Works Director, City of Johnson City, TN

Clark Readling, City Engineer, City of Charlotte, NC

Viktor A. Silgailis, Commissioner of Works, Regional Municipality of Durham, Whitby, ON

 

1999

A. Clarke Bellinger, Commissioner of Public Works, City of Nepean, ON

Frank Belock, Jr., City Engineer & Engineering & Capital Projects Director, City of San Diego, CA

Tom Buick, Chief Public Works Officer, Transportation Director and County Engineer, Maricopa County, AZ

A. Thomas DeMaio, Commissioner of Public Works, Town of Brookline, MA

Irene T. Itamura, Caltrans District 3 Director, California Department of Transportation

Lowell B. Patterson, Public Works Director, City of Columbia, MO

Thomas P. Vukonich, Public Works Director, City of Southfield, MI

Thomas R. Warne, Executive Director, Utah Department of Transportation

George J. Williams, Director of Public Works, City of Lawrence, KS

George “Ed” Wolf, Public Works Director & Assistant City Manager, City of Kansas City, MO

 

2000

Mark T. Calhoun, Public Works Director, City of Henderson, NV

Daniel Villarreal Cárdenas, Assistant Public Works Director, City of San Antonio, TX

William B. Edgerton, Director of Public Works, Town of Concord, MA

John L. German, Director of Public Works, City of San Antonio, TX

Roger P. LeDuc, City Manager, City of Aiken, SC

Robert D. Lowry, Director of Public Works, City of Overland Park, KS

John M. Mezera, City Manager, City of Joliet, IL

Leighton F. Peck, Jr., Director of Public Works, Town of Plymouth, MA

William R. Shane, Public Works Administrator/Town Engineer, Town of Yarmouth, ME

Harry W. Stone, Director of Public Works, County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works

 

2001

Lon Hultgren, Director of Public Works, Town of Mansfield, CT

Ramankutty Kannankutty, Director of Engineering Services, Department of Public Works, City of Minneapolis, MN

Mike Kashiwagi, Director of Public Works, City of Sacramento, CA

Abe U. Malae, Executive Director and CEO, American Samoa Power Authority, Pago Pago, American Samoa

Larry J. Nadeau, Director of Public Works, City of Saco, ME

Ronald L. Norris, Director of Public Works, City of Lenexa, KS

Ric Robertshaw, Director of Environmental Services, Region of Halton, ON

Thomas J. Rolen, Director of Public Works and Engineering, City of Houston, TX

Jon R. Ruiz, Public Works Director, City of Ogden City, UT

John O. Trent, Director of Public Works and Utilities, Pierce County, WA

 

2002

Patricia Chilton Biegler, Director of Public Works, City of Chesapeake, VA

August A. Caires, General Manager, Padre Dam Municipal Water District, Santee, CA

Jason Cosby, Director of Public Works, City of Lancaster, TX

George Crombie, Director of Public Works, City of Nashua, NH

David A. Gravenkamp, Director of Public Works, Siskiyou County, CA

Charles E. Owsley, Director of Public Works, City of Lee’s Summit, MO

James M. Reynolds, Director of Public Works, Village of Northbrook, IL

Gary W. Simmons, Sr., Public Works Director, City of Postville, IA

Lawrence Thacker, Jr., Director, Public Works Department, City of Port St. Lucie, FL

Marc J. Thornsberry, Director of Public Works, City of Springfield, MO

2003

John C. (Jack) Farnan, General Superintendent, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

Rhonda Faught, Cabinet Secretary, New Mexico State Highway & Transportation Department

Thomas C. Kirkwood, Industry Consultant, Kansas City, MO

Tony Leffin, Director of Public Works, City of Maitland, FL

Diane M. Linderman, Director of Public Works, City of Richmond, VA

Tim Madhanagopal, Plant Manager, Orange County Utilities Department, Orlando, FL

Jack McCorkell, Commissioner of Works, Regional Municipality of Durham Works Department, Whitby, ON

Richard F. Stinson, Director of Public Works, Town of Wakefield, MA

L. Scott Tucker, Executive Director, Urban Drainage and Flood Control District, Denver, CO

James C. Wood, Jr., Director of Maintenance, North Texas Tollway Authority, Plano, TX

 

2004

Mac Andrew, Director of Infrastructure and Transportation, Johnson County, Kansas

Daniel J. Boss, Operations Director, City of Tualatin, Oregon

David Hanlon, Director of Public Works, Town of North Reading, Massachusetts

John M. Heinz, Director of Public Works, Village of Barrington, Illinois

John M. Keifer, Director of Public Works, City of Norfolk, Virginia

John P. Kos, District Engineer for District One, Illinois Department of Transportation, Schaumburg, Illinois

David A. Moody, Engineering Director, City of Peoria, Arizona

Larry G. Morris, Public Works Director, City of Aiken, South Carolina

Ian Neville, Commissioner of Public Works, The Regional Municipality of Niagara, Thorold, Ontario

Thomas G. Wendorf, Director of Public Works, City of San Antonio, Texas

 

2005

William P. Baxter, Public Works Director, Orange County Public Works, Orlando, Florida

Leslie P. Bland, Director of Public Works, City of Fenton, Michigan

Cheryl F. Creson, Municipal Services Agency Administrator, Sacramento County, California

Jimmy B. Foster, P.E., Director of Public Works, City of Plano, Texas

Richard D. Goecke, Public Works Director, City of Las Vegas, Nevada

Richard P. Merson, Director of Public Works, Town of Needham, Massachusetts

J. Michael Sullivan, P.E., Regional Vice President, Gresham, Smith and Partners, Nashville, Tennessee

Brian R. Usher, Director of Public Works & Engineering, City of Zion, Illinois

Douglas W. Wesselschmidt, City Engineer, City of Shawnee, Kansas

Mitch Zamojc, P.Eng., Commissioner of Public Works, The Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario, Canada

 

2006

J. Philip (Flip) Bombardier, P.E., Assistant City Manager of Operations, City of Gastonia, North Carolina

James (Jim) M. Close, Director of Public Works, City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Kurt A. Corey, P.E., Director of Public Works, City of Eugene, Oregon

Roger Flint, Director, Public Works & Utilities, City of Spokane, Washington

Michael (Mike) Geisel, P.E., Director of Public Works/City Engineer, City of Chesterfield, Missouri

Steven P. Hansen, P.E., Director of Public Works, City of Liberty, Missouri

Lawrence (Larry) E. Lux, President, Lux Advisors, Ltd., Plainfield, Illinois

Larry D. Nelson, City Engineer, City of Madison, Wisconsin

Kees Schipper, Commissioner of Transportation and Works, Regional Municipality of York

Robert Wraight, P.E., Superintendent of Public Works, Village of Morton, Illinois

 

2007

John M. Bernal, P.E., Deputy County Administrator of Public Works, Pima County, Arizona

Lawrence E. Bombara, Superintendent of Public Works, Town of Uxbridge, Massachusetts

Frank "Cheech" DeCelles, Public Works Director, City of Plantation, Florida

H. Reed Fowler, Jr., Director of Public Works, City of Newport News, Virginia

Bret Hodne, Superintendent of Public Works, City of West Des Moines, Iowa

Joseph C. Johnson, P.E., Director of Public Works, City of Leawood, Kansas

Stuart A. Moring, P.E., Director of Public Works, City of Roswell, Georgia

William L. Pugh, Public Works Director, City of Tacoma, Washington

Peter W. Steblin, P.Eng., General Manager of Environmental & Engineering Services and City Engineer, City of London, Ontario

Gary G. Warren, P.E., Director of Airside Development, Metropolitan Airports Commission, Minneapolis, Minnesota

 

2008

Christine F. Andersen, P.E., Airport Director, City of Long Beach, California

Ronald J. Calkins, P.E., Director of Public Works, City of Ventura, California

Scott R. Elmer, P.E., Director of Public Works/City Engineer, City of Missouri City, Texas

Leslie R. Henley, P.E., FASCE, Deputy Director of Public Works, Clark County, Nevada

Dwayne Kalynchuk, M.Eng., P.Eng., General Manager, Environmental Services Capital Regional District, Victoria, British Columbia

Samuel P. Lamerato, CPFP, Fleet Maintenance Superintendent, City of Troy, Michigan

Richard E. (Dick) McKinley, Public Works Director, City of Bellingham, Washington

Judith M. Mueller, Director of Public Works, City of Charlottesville, Virginia

Steven F. Parkinson, P.E., Public Works Director, City of Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Harry L. Weed, Superintendent of Public Works, Village of Rockville Centre, New York

 

2009

Nabi R. Fakroddin, P.E., S.E. F.ASCE, Senior Project Manager, HNTB Corporation/Illinois Tollway

Raul Godinez II, Director of Public Works, City of Oakland, California

Daryl Grigsby, Public Works Director, City of Kirkland, Washington

Dan Hartman, Public Works Director, City of Golden, Colorado

William A. Kappel, Director of Public Works, City of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

David H. Miller, P.E., City Engineer, City of Branson, Missouri

Earl E. Newman, P.E., PTOE, Assistant Director of Public Works – Traffic Engineer, City of Springfield, Missouri

Linda J. Petelka, B.Sc., Manager, Business & Infrastructure Services, Region of Halton, Ontario

Joseph J. Superneau, P.E., Executive Director, Springfield Water and Sewer Commission, Springfield, Massachusetts

William A. Verkest, P.E., Director of Transportation and Public Works, City of Fort Worth, Texas