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EMA Distinguished Service Award

The Distinguished Service Award is our highest honor for extraordinary and significant service to the independent petroleum marketers, and to the energy industry in general. Past recipients:

2024 – Gerry “Rambo” Ramm, WA
2023 – Steve Turner, AR
2022 – Mark McBride, TN
2020-2021 – Matt Bjornson, ND
2019 – Benny Hodges, NM
2018 – Vernon Kelley, MN
2017 – Ann Hines, AR
2016 – Larry Jordan, NC
2015 – Daniel Gilligan, VA
2014 – Craig Eerkes, VA
2012 – William (Bill) Herdrich, IN
2011 – David Adcox, TN
2010 – Jim Garrett, MA
2009 – Jim Buhrmaster, NY
2008 – John DeWitt, CA
2007 – Roger Dreyer, OH
2006 – W.G.”Bill” Maxwell, OK
2005 – F. William Englefield III, OH
2004 – Bruce Douglas, OR & Donald Craft, CT
2003 – Clark Houghton, MO
2001 – Jon Ware, IL
2000 – Rogers Clark, NC
1999 – Bruce Chiles, TN
1998 – L.W. Locke, NC
1997 – E.K. (Gene) Hunter, IL
1996 – Phillip R. Chisholm, VA
1995 – Eric D. Kroesche, CA

1994 – John A. Arnold, PA
1993 – Robert Thornhill, IN
1992 – Don Ward, NC
1991 – William Quortrup, TX
1990 – Charles G. Salem, NE
1989 – Herb Richards, CA
1998 – William G. Lyden Jr., OH
1987 – Jack A. Griffith, OK
1986 – Herman Wisenteiner, NM
1985 – J.G. “Pete” Morrison, IL
1984 – Thomas V. Patton, GA
1983 – Kenneth White
1982 – Henry C. Turner Jr.
1981 – Frederick H. Meeder
1979 – Douglas B. Mitchell
1978 – C.O. “Scotty” MacLeod
1977 – James C. Little and Tom Love
1976 – Otis H. Ellis
1975 – Robert B. Greenes, NY
1974 – George Calkins
1973 – William S. Jones & Paul Forbes