About the Award
The lifetime achievement award is given to one researcher every year who has given many years of service to the swine industry and added to greatly to the swine research community.
Past Winners
| Dan Ciobanu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 2022 |
| Mark Boggess, USDA MARC | 2021 |
| Archie Clutter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 2020 |
| Jack Dekkers, Iowa State University | 2019 |
| Gary Rohrer, US MARC | 2018 |
| Roger Johnson, Northwest Missouri State | 2017 |
| Thomas Baas, Iowa State University | 2016 |
| Doyle Wilson, Biotronics | 2015 |
| Wayne Singleton, Purdue University | 2014 |
| Andrew Coates, Franklin, Kentucky | 2013 |
| Ken Stadler, Iowa State University | 2012 |
| Everett Forkner, Truline Genetics, Richards, MO | 2011 |
| Dennis Liptrap, Nicholasville, Kentucky | 2010 |
| Max Waldo, DeWitt, Nebraska | 2009 |
| Jim Schneider, Hastings, Nebraska | 2008 |
| Harold Hodson, SGI, Cambridge, Iowa | 2007 |
| Keith Irvin, Ohio State University | 2006 |
| Max Rothschild, Iowa State University | 2005 |
| Todd See, North Carolina State University | 2004 |
| Dale Miller, Minneapolis, MN | 2003 |
| John Mabry, Iowa State University | 2002 |
| Maynard Hogberg, East Lansing, Michigan | 2001 |
| Rodney Goodwin, Des Moines, Iowa | 2000 |
| Rodger Johnson, Lincoln, Nebraska | 1998 |
| Charles Stanislaw, Raleigh, North Carolina | 1997 |
| Darrell Anderson, West Lafayette, Indiana | 1996 |
| Terry Stewart, Allan Schinckel, Dewey Harris, and Donna Lofgren, West Lafayette, Indiana | 1995 |
| Bruce Leman, Roanoke, Illinois | 1994 |
| Charles J. Christians, St. Paul, Minnesota | 1993 |
| William Ahlschwede, Martin, Tennessee | 1992 |
| Lauren L. Christian, Ames, Iowa | 1991 |
| James R. Jones, Raleigh, North Carolina | 1990 |
| Gordon F. Dickerson, Lincoln, Nebraska | 1988 |
| John C. Phillips, Austin, Minnesota | 1986 |
| Robert H. Casey, Dennison, Iowa | 1986 |
| Ben Bereskin, Beltsville, Maryland | 1985 |
| O.W. Robison, Raleigh, North Carolina | 1985 |
| Jack Eichel, Eldora, Iowa | 1984 |
| Dixon D. Hubbard, Washington, DC | 1984 |
| Glenn Conatser, Lafayette, Indiana | 1983 |
| Irvin Omtvedt, Lincoln, Nebraska | 1982 |
| Keith Leavitt, Columbia, Missouri | 1981 |
| LeRoy Faint, Mt. Vernon, Iowa | 1980 |
| Paul C. McGovern, Indianapolis, Indiana | 1979 |
| Caroll Plager, Austin, Minnesota | 1978 |
| Wilbur H. Buner, Columbus, Ohio | 1977 |
