National Auto Auction Association

This NAAA Pioneer Award is given to person(s) who have worked in the wholesale 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 vehicle remarketers unavailable from any other source, and has consistently followed the ethical standards of the NAAA Code of Ethics.

Award Recipients
Year		Name of Recipient(s)
2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998		John Poteet Raymond C. Nichols Janet Barnard, R. Tony Wolfe & Warren Byrd N/A Jeff Barber Jim DesRochers Larry Brasher Bob Rauschenberg Gregg Kobel Don Meadows Jack & Jacque Kesler Jake Hershey Alexis Jacobs W. J. Cotton Mike Hockett Jim Hallett, Jimmy Rea and Chet Goins Willard Dinkel Clo Angelicchio and Stan Hoynitski Pete Lukasiak Tom Bruce Jimmy Franks & Jimmy Cotton - Midwest Auto Auction Association Betty Murray - Eastern Auto Auction Association Harvey Klein - Western Auto Auction Association Don Rogers - Midwestern Auto Auction Association None Awarded This Year Esther Hershey - Eastern Auto Auction Association Sam Gelt - Midwestern Auto Auction Association Robert McConkey, Sr. - Western Auto Auction Association Thomas W. Beasley - Southern Auto Auction Association