Past Recipients
Public Relations Professional of the Year Award
2012 — Jon C. Iwata — IBM
2011 — The PepsiCo communications team (Peter Land, Melisa Tezanos, & Andrea Canabal); the Weber Shandwick Pepsi Refresh Team; and the Edelman Pepsi Refresh Team.
2010 — No Award
2009 — Robert Gibbs — Obama for President Campaign
2008 — San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders’ Communications Team: Fred Sainz, George Biagi, Eileen Brennan, Bill Harris
2007 — Megan Colligan, Michael Feldman and Buffy Shutt — Public Relations Campaign Team for Al Gore’s Oscar-Winning Film, “An Inconvenient Truth”
2006 — Bernadette Mansur — National Hockey League
2005 — Charles D. Connor, Darren Irby, Deborah S. Daley — American Red Cross Communications Team
2004 — Grace Chen Trent and Brad Burns — MCI
2003 — Victoria Clarke — U.S. Department of Defense
2002 — Tim Doke — American Airlines
2001 — James E. Murphy — Accenture
2000 — Rick Kaufman, APR — Jefferson County Public Schools
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