Lifetime Achievement Award

The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to those who have dedicated years of service during a distinguished career and advanced the public safety profession. The have held a long-term leadership role and made extraordinary contributions and sacrifices through a body of work that has greatly impacted their organization and community. 

Past Honorees

2026

View 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients

Robie "Janet" Carter, Florida Department of Corrections

James Coker, Florida Department of Corrections

George Creamer, Jr., Tallahassee Police Department

Brian Dunmyer, Tallahassee State College (Retired)

Joel "Lee" Majors, Leon County Sheriff's Office

Robert Swearingen, Leon County Sheriff's Office (Retired)

Troy Thompson, Florida Highway Patrol (Retired)

2025

Karen Bodiford

Mike Hadden

Chuck Perry

2024

Linda Butler

Benjamin Hollinger

Maurice Langston

Cassandra Moore

Mark Rominger

Eugene “Gene” Sanders

Shawn Satterfield

Donna Marie Uzzell

2023

Terri Brown

Bill Butler

Donnie Crum

Darryl Hall

Milton 'Sandy' Mandell

David Odom

Richard L. (Rick) Swearingen

2022

Michael Anderson

David Brand

Annette Brown

Craig Carroll

David Coffman

Al Gandy

Jeanine Gauding

William Pascoe

Buddy Phillips

Jim Sewell

Kermit Washington

2021

Thomas R. Coe

Brent Coughlin

E.E. Eunice

Leon J. Gill, Jr.

Timothy Niermann

Jennifer Cook Pritt

Tom Quillin

Michael O. Randolph

2020

Eddie Boone

Larry Campbell

Chris Connell

David Harvey

Ken Katsaris

Malcom Kemp

Walter McNeil

Willie Meggs

J. Timothy Moore

Jim Murdaugh

Charlie Robinson

Pat Thomas

W. A. Woodham