Award Winners

VASITE presents awards to recognize significant contributions by VASITE members to the field of transportation. These awards are to recognize significant contributions and will not be granted automatically on a yearly basis. At the discretion of the Awards Committee, an additional award or awards may be distributed at the annual meeting. These awards are typically described as Awards of Appreciation that are distributed to members who perform activities for the Section during the year that deserve special recognition.

Past Award Winners

1996 Melinda Hofrichter
1998 Jeffrey C. Cutright
1999 George T. Rogerson, Jr.
2000 Timothy E. White
2001 Tabitha H. Crowder
2002 K. Joshua Hurst
2003 Anne K. C. Booker
2005 Kirsten A. Black
2006 Claudia Walsh
2007 Susan Mathai
2008 Kelli L. Stamm
2009 Kathryn Brown
2010 Carol Hamlin
2011 Danielle McCray
2012 Chris Daily
2014 Jeff Feeney
2016 Christine Potocki
2017 Mark Herman
2018 Daniel Sagan
2019 Micah Makaiwi
2022 Noelle Rauer
Noelle also earned the SDITE and ITE International Young Member Awards
2023 Craig Schneider
2024 Andy Butsick

1985 John T. Hanna
1986 Eugene D. Arnold, Jr.
1987 R. Allan Lassiter, Jr.
1989 Benjamin H. Cottrell, Jr.
1990 Travis A. Bridewell
1991 Thomas E Flynn
1995 John B. Kaoudis
1997 David R. Gehr
1998 Calvin T. Sheets
1999 Lynn E. Allsbrook
2000 George T. Rogerson, Jr.
2001 Edward R. Bohlman
2002 William J. Cashman, Jr.
2003 Tim A. Foster
2004 John O. Yorks
2005 Anne K. C. Booker
2006 Kirsten A. Black
2007 Mark Jamison
2008 Ric Lowman
2009 John Hendrickson
2010 Jeff Minnix
2012 Kelli Stamm
2013 Gerry Harter
2014 Peter J. Leavitt
2015 Vanloan Nguyen
2016 Bryan Katz
2017 Robert E. Lewis
2019 Susan Mathai
2022 Ashley Lickliter
2023 Whitney Duffy
2024 Kathryn Brown

1984 William C. Nelson, Jr.
1986 Robert G. Corder
1987 Kenneth M. Wilkinson
1990 Lowell H. Terry
1995 Farshad Bigdeli
1996 Eugene D. Arnold, Jr.
1997 Peter J. Leavitt
1998 David W. Berg
1999 Thomas M. Slaughter
2000 Linda M. Smith
2001 Lynn E. Allsbrook
2002 Owen P. Curtis
2003 John B. Kaoudis
2004 Bryant B. Goodloe
2005 Timothy E. White
2006 William J. Cashman, Jr.
2007 Warren Hughes
2008 Valerie J. Henchel
2009 Kirsten Tynch
2010 Tim Foster
2011 John Yorks
2013 George T. Rogerson, Jr.
2014 Dwight Farmer
2014 Robin Grier
2015 Raymond J. Khoury
2016 Jack Herbert III
2017 Michael Sawyer
2018 Gerry Harter
2019 Jackie Kessel
2022 Kelli Stamm
2022 Robert Lewis
2023 Stephen Brich
2024 Ric Lowman and Peter Hedrich

1999 Timothy E. White – TRAFFIC LITE Newsletter
2000 Owen P. Curtis – VASITE Scholarship
2002 Irene E. Shuman – Annual Meeting Sponsorship
2019 Chris Daily, Ashley Lickliter, & Christine Potocki – SDITE/MCDITE Joint Annual Meeting Tri-Chairs
2023 Micah Makaiwi – VASITE Website

J. Duval Lee
Kenneth M. Wilkinson
J. Paul Royer, Jr.
L. H. Dawson, Jr.
William C. Nelson, Jr.
John T. Hanna
Robert J. Humphrey
Eugene D. Arnold, Jr.
Bryant Goodloe

Award Criteria

The VASITE awards committee reviews the qualifications of Section members in order to determine potential candidates for three separate awards, including the Distinguished Service Award, Outstanding Individual Activity Award, and the Young Member Award. Guidelines for determining eligibility for these three awards are provided below.

The Award will be presented to an individual who, over that person’s young professional career, has contributed to the advancement of transportation engineering and VASITE.

The recipient of this Award shall be a member of the Section and shall be under the age of 35 years. The recipient shall be evaluated on personal traits, such as, integrity, morality, and leadership. Professional individual accomplishments, such as, transportation innovations, technical research, and paper writing are to be considered. Involvement in Section activities, including meeting participation and committee work, will be a major consideration in selecting the award winner.

The name of the candidate selected by the committee for recommendation as the award recipient shall be submitted to the Executive Board for approval no later than the Spring Meeting. Only one person shall be selected for this Award in any given year. A statement of the Award recipient’s contributions and accomplishments shall be prepared by the committee and read at the awards ceremony.

Approved by VASITE Executive Board on June 28, 1995

Candidates shall be Members of the Section or Section Affiliates and shall have made outstanding contributions to the transportation engineering profession in general and to the Section in particular during the year in which the award is made. The name of the candidate selected by the committee for recommendation as the award recipient shall be submitted to the Executive Board for approval not later than the Spring Meeting. Only one person shall be selected for this award in any given year. A statement of the award recipient’s contributions and accomplishments shall be prepared by the committee and read at the awards ceremony.

Approved by VASITE Executive Board October 14, 1992.

Candidates shall have been active in the field of transportation for ten (10) years or more and shall have made continuous, significant contributions to the transportation engineering profession for at least five (5) years, as a VASITE Member or Section Affiliate. The name of the candidate selected by the committee for recommendation as the award recipient shall be submitted to the Executive Board for approval not later than the Spring Meeting. Only one person shall be selected for this award in any given year. A statement of the award recipient’s contributions and accomplishments shall be prepared by the committee and read at the award ceremony.

Approved by VASITE Executive Board on October 14, 1992.