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NAAA Hall of Fame Award

Patty Stanley
Patty Stanley
2016 Award Recipient

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This award is given annually to an auction executive and industry auction supporter.

The auction executive award is awarded to someone with long- term service to the wholesale vehicle auction industry and NAAA, which has improved the industry as a whole; has worked with other NAAA members to improve the industry as a whole, and has consistently followed the high standards of the NAAA Code of Ethics.

NAAA Hall of Fame Award Recipients
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1969
1970

1971
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1973

1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
  Jack G. Charlesworth
C.H. Van Steenberg
Timothy E. Anspach, Frank B. Clement,
and ,Charles B. Neely
Elmo L. Joseph
Dennis A. Kuhn, Fred M. MacDougall,
and J. Martin Rawls
Harold C. Henry, and William N. Thee,
Lawrence G. Tribble, Sr., and Harry Whitney
William G. Morgan and Jacob H. Ruhl
Tom Adams, Sr. and Melvin E. Reid
Thomas W. Beasley and Lawrence F. Tarleton
Martin D. McCollum and Edward E. Sullivan
Norman F. Early and Sydney Friedlander
Nicholas P. Cocoves and David B. Spielman
Martin A. Kottler and J.B. " Pat" Patterson
J.C. Clanton, Jr. and Charles W. French
Don W. Rogers and Claude M. Scoggins
Frank S. Grochal and Warren V. Young, Sr.
Leona T. Drake and Robert A. McDevitt
Tom S. Bruce and Eugene McDonald
Sam Gelt and James H. Lawrence
J. Frank Brasher and Mel H. Suhr
David Cape and Bernard Hart

Clyde "Red" Hillwig, Jan Merritt, and Pete Murray
Frank Hildreth and James Terry
  1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
  Mike McHale and Mike Richardson
Tom Adams, Jr.
Jim Seder and Lynn Weaver
Jim Wheatley
Bob August and Tom Cunningham
Jacob B. Hershey, Sr. and D. Wayne Synder
Virgil Matczak and Barbara Wheatley
Darryll Ceccoli and Dave Osterhoff
Bob Burnett and J. Omar Landis
Tom Kniivila and Tony Moorby
Burt Greenwood and Woody Miller
Ruth Hart-Stephens and Ken Widmeyer
Joe Lyng and Chuck Stepter
Larry Hedrick and Berta Phelps
Larry Brasher and David Langley
Don DeVries and Mercedes Ruiz
Jeff Heichel and Larry Tribble, Jr.
Steve Houston and Ray Nichols
Linda Silverstein
Steve DeMedicis
Dan Kennedy and Tim West
Tom Caruso  
Ken Osborn and Henry Stanley
Alexis Jacobs
Jay Cadigan
Patty Stanley
NAAA Pioneer Award
This NAAA Pioneer Award is given to persons who have
worked in the wholesale motor vehicle industry and/or NAAA. The award represents someone who has innovated or enhanced methods of improving services to remarketers through NAAA member auctions. They have championed NAAA member auctions that provide services for motor vehicle remarketers unavailable from any other source, and has consistently followed the ethical standards of the NAAA Code of Ethics.
NAAA Pioneer Award Recipients
2016   Bob Rauschenberg
2015   Gregg Kobel
2014   Don Meadows
2013   Jack & Jacque Kesler
2012   Jake Hershey
2011   Alexis Jacobs
2010   W. J. "Buzz" Cotton
2009   Mike Hockett
2008   Jim Hallett, Jimmy Rea & Chet Goins
2007   Willard 'Willie' Dinkel
2006   Clo Angelicchio & Stan Hoynitski
2005   Pete Lukasiak
2004   Tom Bruce
2003   James W. Franks & W.J. Cotton - Midwest Auto Auction Association
2002   Betty Murray - Eastern Auto Auction Association
2001   Harvey Klein - Western Auto Auction Association
2000   Don Rogers - Midwestern Auto Auction Association
1999   None Awarded This Year
1998   Esther Hershey - Eastern Auto Auction Association
Sam Gelt - Midwestern Auto Auction Association
Robert McConkey, Sr. - Western Auto Auction Association
Tom Beasley - Southern Auto Auction Association


Bob Rauschenberg
Bob Rauschenberg
2016 Award Recipient

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Bernie Hart Memorial Auctioneer of the Year Award
 

Bernie Hart Memorial Auctioneer of the Year Award

The Bernie Hart Memorial Auctioneer Award honors “the most visible person in the auction industry.” The award is named after long-time NAAA Executive Director Bernie Hart of Lincoln, Nebraska, who served the association for over 30 years before retiring in 1988.


Jack Armstrong
2016 Award Recipient

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2016   Jack Armstrong
2015   John Nicholls
2014   Michael Chambers
2013   Jack Davis
2012   Jerry Girvin
2011   Paul Behr
2010   Odie Adcock
2009   Forrest Mendenhall
2008   Bill Lanier
2007   Shane Ratliff
2006   Johnny Green
2005   Jeff Stokes
2004   Charles Nichols
2003   Ralph "Whitey" Shively
2002   Chuck Roop
2001   Gene Radcliff
2000   Kenny Aycock

Exhibitor of the Year Award  

Exhibitor of the Year Award

The Exhibitor of the Year Award named in honor of its first recipient in 2006, Marie Hingst, in recognition of her years of dedication and commitment to NAAA, the award is presented each year at the NAAA annual convention to an exhibitor who displays a similar degree of devotion.

Exhibitor of the Year Award Recipients
2015   Ron Hope, CARS Recon
2014   Ron Smith, S&A Cherokee Publishing
2013   George Heppe, GigglePop.com
2012   Jack DeMao, Electric Guard Dog
2011   Ralph Robinson, Auto Use
2010   Tom Williams, BASF
2009   Don Meadows, AutoIMS
2008   Colleen Fitzgerald, Used Car News
2007   Tim West, Black Book
2006   Marie Hingst, Automotive News