ABVE Awards

We are now accepting applications for the David S. Frank and Scott E. Streater award.  Please find the nomination form HERE.

David S. Frank Award

During the 1997 ABVE Fall Conference in Minneapolis, the ABVE Board of Directors established the David S. Frank Lifetime Achievement Award. This award is to be presented to an ABVE member or other, who actively has participated in the organization, freely devoting time, energies and expertise toward the development of ABVE or to the body of knowledge of the vocational expert in a forensic setting. Award recipients will be chosen on the basis of their character, expertise, and professionalism as exemplified by David S. Frank, as well as their efforts to foster a growing knowledge of ABVE as an ethical, credible, and professional body.

This honor will be awarded at the ABVE Annual Spring Conference. The recipient of this award will be chosen from a list of nominees submitted by the general membership.

Nomination forms are due to ABVE Headquarters by January 15th of each year.

The following people have received the David S. Frank Award:

2023 – Terry Leslie, M.Ed.
2021 – Eugene Van De Bittner, Ph.D.
2020 – DT North
2019 – Timothy Field
2018 – Anita Rothard
2017 – Phillip Spergel, Ed.D.
2016 – Paul D. Powers
2015 – Jeff Lucas, Ph.D.
2014 – Rick Robinson
2013 – Jeffrey A. Truthan
2012 – John Berg M. Ed
2011 – Carl Gann
2010 – Estelle Hutchinson
2009 – Don Jennings, Ed.D.
2008 – G. Michael Graham, Ph.D.
2007 – John M. Williams, Ph.D.
2006 – Larry Sinsabaugh, Ph.D.
2005 – Billy J. McCroskey, Ph.D. (awarded by Claude Peacock)
2004 – Cynthia Grimley, M.S.
2003 – Bart Hultine, Ed.D.
2002 – G. Michael Graham, Ed.D.
2001 – Billy J. McCroskey, Ph.D.
2000 – Lindette Mayer, Ph.D.
1999 – Harold V. Kulman, M.A.
1998 – Ronald A. Peterson, Ph.D.
1997 – Everett Dillman, Ph.D.

Scott E. Streater Educational Award

The Scott E. Streater Educational Award was designed in 2006 to recognize members of ABVE who have made a significant contribution to the learning and educational base of the ABVE membership through one’s participation in:

  • Active research and publication of substantive issues and underpinnings for the forensic arena in which said membership participates and publishes such information via the organization’s Journal, newsletter and website, and/or…
  • Activities contributing to the educational base of the ABVE membership through the development and coordination of ABVE’s annual conferences and/or continuing educational presentations and exchange of information and expertise which provide educational underpinnings for its membership.

Nomination forms are due to ABVE Headquarters by January 15th of each year.

The following people have received the Scott E. Streater Educational Award:

2023 – Roderick C. Stoneburner
2021 – Jeff Truthan
2020 – John Berg
2019 – Betty Kohlenberg
2018 – DT North
2017 – Stephan P. Davis
2016 – Scott Whitmer
2015 – Chrisann Shiro-Geist
2014 – Cynthia P. Gimley
2013 – Ronald Smolarski M.A.
2012 – Larry Sinsabaugh, Ph.D.
2011 – E. Davis Martin Jr.
2010 – Philip Spergel, Ed.D
2009 – Tim Field, Ph.D.
2008 – Not awarded
2007 – G. Michael Graham, Ph.D.
2006 – Billy J. McCroskey, Ph.D.
2005 – Eugene Van de Bittner, Ph.D.

Presidential Citations

This special award is given to a member(s) or non-member(s) at the discretion of the currently appointed ABVE President for that person’s dedication and continued support of ABVE. The following people have received a Presidential Citation:

Richard Baine – 2004, 2012
Jayne Barton – 2009, 2010
John Berg – 2011, 2012, 2014
Phillip W. Boswell – 2015
Judy Brookover – 2014
H. Gray Broughton – 2009, 2014
Veronica J. Butler – 1998
BTF Enterprises, Inc. – 2007
Howard Caston – 2010, 2012
Cheryl Chanler – 2024 
Robert B. Cottle – 2008
Cathy Crabbe – 1994
Brian Daly – 2020, 2023, 2024
Chad Duncan – 2014
Kristy Farnsworth – 2008
Janet Field Fitzpatrick – 2014
Timothy Field – 2013, 2014
Eileen Delzell – 2013
Jenipher S. Gaffney – 2008
Alan Gale – 2007
Carl Gann – 2008
G. Michael Graham – 2000, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2014
Cynthia P. Grimley – 2001, 2002, 2007, 2012, 2015
Bruce Growick – 2004
Russ Gurley – 2015
Kourtney Layton – 2018
Terry P. Leslie – 2018, 2020
Betty Lindsey Hale – 2007
Judith Harper – 2012
Joseph Havranek – 2008
Estelle R. Hutchinson – 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
Bart Hultine – 1997, 2000, 2002
Donald Jennings – 2002, 2004
Harold V. Kulman – 2002
Hank Lageman – 2001
Peter Lento – 2008, 2009
Jan Lowe – 2012
Jeffrey W. Lucas – 2008
E. Davis Martin, Jr. – 2007, 2009
Bonnie Martindale – 2010
Lindette Mayer – 1999, 2001
Billy J. McCroskey – 1999, 2004, 2007
Stephanie Munoz – 2012
DT North – 2018
Claude Peacock – 2004
Ronald A. Peterson – 1996, 2004
Rosalyn Pierce – 2012
Chrisann Schiro-Geist – 2014
Scott Sevart – 2020
Larry L. Sinsabaugh – 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008
Terri Skill – 2001
Ronald Smolarski – 2010, 2014
Sara Statz – 2020
Scott T. Stipe – 2008, 2015
Eugene E. Van de Bittner – 2008
Deborah J. Veatch – 2001
Cynthia J. Ward – 2001
Rona Wexler – 2020
Harry A. Whiting, Jr. – 2008
Scott Whitmer – 2012, 2013, 2020, 2023
Keith S. Wilkinson – 2008
Glenn Zimmermann – 2002