ICCTA Pacesetter Award

Previous Recipients
1988 (co-winners)
David Hinrichsen
Elementary school teacher
Illinois Central College

Kathleen Laken
Instrument mechanic
Commonwealth Edison
Joliet Junior College

1989
Joyce A. Carich
Corporate president and operations manager
G.C. Plumbing, Inc.
Belleville Area College (now Southwestern Illinois College)

1990
Barbara J. Carter
Guardian ad litem
Court Appointed Special Advocate program
Rock Valley College

1991
Eldon Rohlfing
Training coordinator
Lincoln Land Community College
Lincoln Land Community College

1992
Dr. James Clapper
Chiropractic physician
Elgin Community College

1993
Frank J. Marsala
Chief of police
Olympia Fields Police Department
Prairie State College

1994
David T. Bennett
Manager of technical program development
North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Parkland College

1995
Kathleen Land
Elementary school teacher
Frontier Community College

1996
Delores Lien
GED teacher
Prairie State College
Prairie State College

1997
Philip Mondrowski
Financial analyst
Dai-Ichi Bank, Ltd.
Morton College

1998 (co-winners)
Portia Wallace
Sergeant
Highway Patrol Divison, Lake County Sheriff's Police
College of Lake County

Stacy Zawaski
Certified therapeutic recreation specialist
Moraine Valley Community College

1999
Maureen Dunne
Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University
Executive director, Reaching to Educate Autistic Children through Hope
College of DuPage

2000
Dean Paulcheck
Locomotive engineer
Union Pacific Railroad
McHenry County College

2001
Lynette M. Gage
Instructional aide, Marie Schaefer Middle School
Aerobics instructor, O'Fallon YMCA
Southwestern Illinois College

2002
Raymond Connolly
Adjunct faculty, welding technology program
Southwestern Illinois College
Southwestern Illinois College

2003
Lisandra Martinez
Student advocate, Project S.T.E.P.
Elgin Community College
Elgin Community College

2004
Bonita Bear
Human services technician
Cunningham Children's Home
Parkland College

2005
Jill Tomaszewski
Recruitment placement specialist
Kaskasia College
Kaskaskia College

2006
Katie Hopkins
Coordinator of student volunteer and community outreach programs
Elgin Community College
Elgin Community College

2007
Gabriel C. Smith
Quality engineer
John Deere
John A. Logan College(2003)

2008
Anna Kesler
Resources specialist
General Electric Transportation
Parkland College(2004)

2009
Amber Edwards
Clinical coordinator / faculty
Radiologic technology program
Kaskaskia College
Kaskaskia College(2005)