Previous Award Recipients

Administrator Award

2012: Kathleen Steele

2013: Maurine Donavan

2015: Keith Davis

2017: Jacqueline Barone

2018:

Heather Mueller
Sheri L. Allen

2020: Michael Grego

2022: Michelle Reid

2023: Liam Dawson

2024: Lohren Carter-Nzoma

2025: Heidi Tahir

Carolyn Callahan Doctoral Student Awards

2012

Tracy Missett
Sarah Oh
Nielsen Pereira
Yang Yang

2013

C. Matthew Fugate
Cindy Massicotte
Lori Andersen
Meihua Qian
Christine Deitz

2014

Jiaxi Wu
Jennifer Ritchotte

2015

Carla Brigandi
Enyi Jen
Sakhavat Mammodov

2016

Sue Hyeon Paek
Dianna Mullet
Susan Dulong Langley
Lynn Dare
Ahmed Mohammed Abdulla

2017

Christina Amspaugh
Brittany Anderson
Kristen Seward

2018

Mehdi Ghahremani
Kristen N. Lamb
Juliana Tay
Rebecca L. O'Brien

2019

Jessa Goudelock
Jaret Hodges
Sareh Karemi

2020

Ophelle Desmet
Lisa Ridgley
Anne Roberts

2021

Alissa Salazar Cres
Stacy Hayden
Hyeseong Lee
Lindsay Lee
Melanie Meyer

2022

Aakash Chowkase
Fabio Andres Parra Martinez
Jessica Ottwein
Pamela M. Peters
Rebecca Johnson

2023

Keishana Barnes
Annessia Bullard
Austina DeBonte
Callie Turk
Yao Yang

2024

Benna Haas
Dr. Gayle Bentley
Maryann R. Hebda
Sarah A. Caroleo
Yuyang Shen

2025

Alejandra Fernandez Morgado
Debi K. Torres
Hernan Castillo-Hermosilla
Julie Delgado
Tugce Karatas

David W. Belin Advocacy Award

2012: Virginia (Ginny) Hays Burney

2014: Sen. Barbara Mikulski

2015: Lynette Baldwin

2016

Maureen Marron
Catherine Blando
Gail Kenkel
Sally Y. Walker

2018: Jody Richards

2019: Donna Campbell

2020

Roberta Braverman
Elaine Chesebro
Michelle Falanga
Lynne Henwood
Jennifer Madsen
Michael Kaeiber

2022: Pamela R. Clinkenbeard

2024: Kyna Iman

2025: Sneha Shah Coltrane

Distinguished Scholar Award

2012: Ann Robinson

2013:

Frank C. Worrell
Jonathan A. Plucker

2014: Marcia Gentry

2015: Karen Rogers

2016: Susan G. Assouline

2017: David Dai

2018: Del Siegle

2019: Tom Herbert

2019: James Moore III

2020: Jean S. Peterson

2021: E. Jean Gubbins

2022: D. Betsy McCoach

2024: Anne N. Rinn

2025: Michael S. Matthews

Distinguished Service Award

2012: Julia Link Roberts

2013 : Sidney M Moon

2014: Cheryll M. Adams

2014: Bonnie Cramond

2015: Linda Brody

2016: Paula Olskewski-Kibilius

2018: F. Richard Olenchak

2019: Laurie Croft

2020: Catherine Little

2022: Tamra Stambaugh

2023: Tarek Grantham

2024: Jonathan A. Plucker

2025: Dr. Erinn Fears Floyd

Early Leader Award

2012: Alicia Cotabish

2013: Jennifer L. Jolly

2014: Kimberly Chandler

2015: Tamra Stambaugh

2016: Jill Adelson

2017: Hope Wilson

2018: Bronwyn MacFarlane

2019: Keri Guilbault

2020: Cindy Gibson

2021: Kristina H. Collins

2022: Debbie Dailey

2023: C. Matthew Fugate

2024: Dr. Ashley Y. Carpenter

2025: Dr. Tyler Clark

Early Scholar Award

2012: Megan Foley Nicpon

2013: Elizabeth Shaunessy-Dedrick

2014:

Jill Adelson
Scott Peters

2015: Alicia Cotabish

2016: Matthew McBee

2017:

Matthew Makel
Kate Snyder

2018: Lisa DaVia Rubenstein

2019: Karen Rambo-Hernandez

2020: Nielsen Pereira

2021: Carla B. Brigandi

2022: Kristen N. Lamb

2023: Sakhavat Mammadov

20214: Rachel U. Mun

2025: Lisa Rubenstein

Gifted Coordinator Award

2014:

Dina Brulles
Lauri Kirsch

2015:

Denise E. Zacherl
Michelle Swain
Carol Horn

2016:

Diane Naff
Lenae Lazzelle

2017:

Carrier Childers
Merrie Fisher
Monica Simonds

2018:

Tania Lyon
April Wells

2019:

Dennis Jutras
Geoffrey Moon
Bonnie O'Regan

2020:

Ladona Gorham
Dornswalo Wilkins-McCorey
Kathleen Plott
Lori Leibowitz

2021: Julie gann

2022:

Cheryl Taliaferro
Amity Butler
Tracy Bednarick-Humes

2023:

Lisa Ernsberger
Kristen Maloney
Elizabeth Uptegrove

2024:

Brooke Bilby
Cheryl Ann McCullough
Vanessa Hill

2025:

Erin Miller
Judi Elliott
Theresa Jackson

Master's and Specialist's Award

2012: Jennifer Houghton Canady

2015:

April Blackburn
Maureen Mensing

2016:

Keila Moreno Navarette
Zane Scott-Tunkin
Laura Gary

2017: Heather Vaughn

2018: Karen L. Brown

2019: Alissa Salazar Cress

2020: Lynne Henwood

2022: Emily Delinski

2023:

Jay Huston
Phoebe Patterson
Sheyanne Smith

2025: Tammy Jean Byrd

Gifted Child Quarterly Paper of the Year

2012:

Saiying Steenbergen-Hu

Sidney Moon

2013:

Jill Adelson
D. Betsy McCoach
M. Katherine Gavin

2014:

Fei Chen
David Yun Dai

2015:

Fei Chen
David Yun Dai
Russell T. Warne

2016: Katie Larsen McClarty

2017:

Scott J. Peters
Kenneth G. Engerrand

2018:

Paula Olszewski-Kubilius
Saiying Steenbergen-Hu
Dana Thomson
Rhoda Rosen

2019:

Joni Lankin
Kristen N. Lamb
Peter Boedeker
Todd Kettler

2021:

Saiying Steenbergen-Hu
E. Jean Gubbins
Del Siegle
Karen Ottone-Cross
D. Betsy McCoach
Susan Dulong Langley
Carolyn M. Callahan
Annalissa V. Brodersen
Melanie Caughey

2022: David Lubinski

2023: Scott J. Peters

2024:

Dr. Blaine Pedersen
Matthew C. Makel
Karen E. Rambo-Hernandez
Scott J. Peters
Jonathan A. Plucker

2025: Dr. Anne N. Rinn

View the past winners of NAGC awards