Distinguished Service Award
2024: Heather Sheehan
Former VP Logistics and Procurement, Danahar Corp.
2023: Dr. Ted Stank
Professor University of Tennessee
2022: Masao Nishi
Nishi Strategic Advisory & Former CSCO Sysco Corporation
2021: Dale Rogers
ON Semiconductor Professor of Business at Arizona State University
2020: Dr. Matthew Waller Dean of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas
2019: Kathy Wengel Executive Vice President and Chief Global Supply Chain Officer for Johnson & Johnson
2018: Dr. John Gattorna
author, academic and principal of a Sydney-based specialist advisory business, Gattorna
Alignment
2017: Dr. Nancy Nix
Executive Director of Achieving Women's Excellence in Supply Chain Operations, Management,
and Education (AWESOME)
2016: Dr. Chris Caplice
Executive Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
2015: Robert Martichenko Chief Executive Officer, LeanCor Supply Chain Group
2014: Mike Regan
Chief of Relationship Development, TranzAct Technologies, Inc.
2013: Abré Pienaar
CEO, iPlan
2012: Ann Drake
Chairman & CEO, DSC Logistics
2011: Dr. James R. Stock
Frank Harvey Endowed Professor of Marketing, University of South Florida
2010: Charles L. Taylor
Founder and Principal, Awake! Consulting
2009: Joel L. Sutherland
Managing Director of Lehigh University's Center for Value Chain Research
2008: Arthur Mesher
CEO, The Descartes Systems Group Inc.
2007: Dr. Thomas W. Speh
Distinguished Professor of Distribution, Miami University
2006: Herbert S. Shear
Chief Executive Officer, GENCO
2005: Dr. Martin G. Christopher
Professor of Marketing and Logistics, Cranfield University, UK
2004: Dr. John Thomas Mentzer
Distinguished Professor of Logistics, University of Tennessee
2003: H. Lee Scott, Jr.
Chairman, Wal-Mart Corporation
2002: Donald J. Schneider
Chairman, Schneider Logistics, Inc.
2001: Ralph W. Drayer
Vice President Customer Service & Logistics, Procter & Gamble
1999: Richard F. Powers
President, Insight, Inc.
1998: William C. Copacino
Managing Partner, Andersen Consulting Strategic Services Practice
1997: Dr. Yossi Sheffi,
Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1996: Larry S. Mulkey
President, Ryder Integrated Logistics
1995: Joseph C. Andraski
Vice President Integrated Logistics, Nabisco Inc.
1994: Roger W. Carlson
Executive Vice President, Exel Logistics-North America
1993: Dr. C. John Langley
John H. Dove Distinguished Professor, University of Tennessee
1992: Howard S. Gochberg
Vice President (retired), Land O'Lakes, Inc.
1991: Dr. John J. Coyle
Exec. Director, Center for Logistics Research, Pennsylvania State University
1990: Roger W. Kallock
Chairman, Cleveland Consulting Associates
1989: Frederick W. Smith
CEO/Chairman, Federal Express Corporation
1988: George A. Gecowets
Executive Vice President, Council of Logistics Management
1987: Ronald E. Seger
Vice President, A.T. Kearney, Inc.
1986: Dr. Douglas M. Lambert
Professor of Marketing, University of South Florida
1985: Arthur W. Todd
Director of Purchasing, Lincoln Electric Company
1984: Bob Packwood
United States Senate
1983: Bernard J. Hale
Vice President, Distribution Services, Bergen Brunswig Corporation
1982: Jerome D. Krassenstein
Vice President, Chessie System
1981: Robert V. Delaney
Manager of Distribution, International Paper Company
1980: Clifford F. Lynch
Vice President of Distribution, Quaker Oats Company
1979: Wendell M. Stewart
Vice President, A.T. Kearney, Inc.
1978: Robert J. Franco
Vice Chairman, Spector Industries
1977: Kenneth B. Ackerman
Chairman, Distribution Centers, Inc.
1976: Dr. Bernard J. LaLonde
Professor of Marketing & Logistics, The Ohio State University
1975: Burr W. Hupp
Managing Director, Drake Sheahan/Stewart Dougall
1974: Dr. James L. Heskett
Professor of Business Logistics, Harvard University
1973: Robert E. Schellberg
Vice President, Distribution, Eastman Kodak Company
1972: Warren Blanding
Executive Vice President, Marketing Publications, Inc.
1971: Mark Egan
Tourism Advisor for Turkey
1970: Gayton E. Germane
Professor of Logistics, Stanford University
1969: Bruce J. Riggs
General Traffic Manager, Norton Company
1968: Dr. Edward W. Smykay
Professor, Michigan State University
1967: E. Grosvenor Plowman
Vice President, Traffic, US Steel
1966: Dr. Donald J. Bowersox
Vice President/General Manager, E.F. MacDonald Stamp Company
1965: Will Gribble
Director, Customer Service, Pillsbury Company