Public Service Award Winners

ELIGIBILITY: Any state legislator, member of Congress, U.S. senator, trustee or council member, or private citizen, whose activities have furthered the objectives of municipal utilities and have made a substantial contribution to municipal utilities in Iowa or in the nation, received statewide and / or national recognition, and have had a lasting impact.

• 2011 - Governor Terry Branstad
• 2008 - Leonard Kaufmann (Manilla)
• 2007 - Chris Schmidt (Waverly)
• 2004 - Don Kroese (Sanborn)
• 2001 - E.W. Tyler (Lenox Utility Board Member)
• 2001 - Representative Greg Stevens (Milford)
• 2001 - Senator Richard Drake (Muscatine)
• 2000 - Senator Betty Soukup (New Hampton)
• 2000 - Representative Clyde Bradley
• 1999 - Senator Steve King (Kiron)
• 1999 - Representative William Witt (Cedar Falls)
• 1999 - Mayor Mose Hendrick (Hawarden)
• 1997 - Representative Richard Vande Hoef (Harris)
• 1997 - Mayor Ivan J. (Ike) Ackerman (Waverly)
• 1994 - Mayor Bob Dunlop (Orange City)
• 1994 - Representative Jack Drake (Harlan)
• 1993 - Larry Hobart (American Public Power Association)
• 1991 - Robert Jester (Jester Insurance Services)

Award records may be incomplete. Additional information on past awards is welcomed.