The NACTA Distinguished Educator Award recognizes meritorious service to NACTA and to higher education through teaching, educational research, and/or administration.
 
Nominee must be a current or retired NACTA member and have ten or more years of service to higher education. Nominations will be accepted from any NACTA member; Materials must be sub-mitted to the Chair of the Distinguished Educator Award Committee by the published deadline; The NACTA Executive Committee, which serves as the Distinguished Educator Award Committee, reviews the nomination materials at the NACTA Fall Executive Committee meeting and selects the recipient(s).
 
This award, administered by the NACTA Executive Committee, consists of Life membership in NACTA and a plaque to be presented at the annual conference.
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Michel Wattiaux
Cheryl Wachenheim
Lurline Marsh
Jeffory Hattey
J. Marcos Fernandez
Jean A. Bertrand
Charles M. Kinoshita
Laurie Kramer
Mike Mullen
Ronald Hanson
Edwin Miller
Foy Mills Jr
Frank Robinson
Jean Gleichsner
James Wangberg
Steven S. Waller
James R. McKenna
Wayne L Banwart
Kevin J. Donnelly
Rick Parker
Linda C. Martin
Larry Erpelding
Jimmy Cheek
L.H. Newcomb
Kenneth L. Esbenshade
Harley W. Foutch
Graham A. Jones
R. Kirby Barrick
Don M. Edwards
Marvin E. Oetting
Larry J. Connor
John M. White
Joseph J. Jen
W. Anson Elliot
Thomas J. Lindahl
Gerry L. Posler
Marion E. Ensminger
Detroy E. Green
Robert M. McGuire
James Mortensen
G. M. "Mike" Jenkinson
James L. Oblinger
David J. Mugler
Robert C. Sorensen
Charles E. Stufflebeam
Thomas M. Sutherland
Ted E. Hartung
John R. Campbell
Lee W. Doyen
E. Grant Moody
J. Wayland Bennett
Robert R. Shrode
H. Bradford Craig
Russell L. Miller
Hal B. Barker
A.W. "Tom" Burger
Franklin E. Eldridge
Jack C. Everly
J. Keith Justice
Frank R. Carpenter
Thomas J. Stanly
O.J. Burger
Edward C. Frederick
Paul E. Sanford
Darrell S. Metcalfe
Robert A Alexander
Robert D. Seif
Murray A. Brown
G. Carl Schowengerdt
John A. Wright
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