This award honors a practitioner who has been in private practice the past ten years and is currently practicing food animal, companion animal, and/or equine veterinary medicine. Nominees should have outstanding contributions to veterinary standards, techniques, treatments, and practice methods. Financial success, client and colleague rapport, public service, and willingness to assist other practitioners are all considerations for this award’s criteria. An individual may only receive this award once. The award is presented every other year.
1979 Farris Beasley
1980 Leon Boyd
1981 Cameron Shaul
1982 Daniel Fitzpatrick
1983 Jack Hall
1984 Jimmy Stanford
1985 Sam Thompson
1986 Howard Mynatt
1987 Charlie Byles
1988 Kenneth Dixon
1989 Carr Hyatt
1990 Dean Martin & Noell Moseley
1991 Oogie Martin
1992 Pat Hackett
1993 Edwin Robertson
1996 George Scorey, III
1997 Bob Coley
1998 William O. Butler
1999 Herbert M. McCollum
2000 Berry H. Gordon
2001 Charlie Moyers
2002 Jerry Burch
2003 Kevin Ade
2004 Richard Buchanan
2005 Robert McCullough
2006 Jerry McMillan
2008 David “Hank” Wright
2010 Jerry Flatt (Cookeville)
2012 Stephen Galloway
2014 Randy Hammon
2016 Allan Holladay
2018 W. Bryant Morton
2020 Carondelet Nollner
2022 Shaun Reynolds
2024 Jerry Wilhite
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