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2009 The Honorable William E. Fowler, Jr., Chief Judge, National Transportation Safety Board

2008 Peggy Mastroianni, Associate Legal Counsel, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

2007 The Honorable John Vittone, Chief Administrative Law Judge, U.S. Department of Labor

2006 Lydia Quarles, Commissioner, Mississippi Workers Compensation Commission
       John C. Cruden, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice

2005 Morton Rosenberg
American Law Division, Congressional Research Service

2004 Thomas Spahr
Chief Legal Counsel, Child Support Enforcement Division, State of New Mexico

2003 Michael Messitte
Settlement and Compliance Director, Appellate Court Branch, National Labor Relations Board

2002 Alan Schoem
Director, Office of Compliance, Consumer Product Safety Commission

2001 Stanley Pruss
Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the Consumer Protection Division, State of Michigan

2000 Joan Z. Bernstein
Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

1999 Joyce M. Martin
Executive Director of Environment/Energy, Office of the Governor of Indiana

1998 Catherine O. Murphy
Deputy Regional Solicitor - Region III, U.S. Department of Labor

1997 Neil R. Eisner
Assistant General Counsel for Regulation and Enforcement, U.S. Department of Transportation

1996 John H. Ferguson
Assistant General Counsel of the Appellate Court Branch, National Labor Relations Board

1995 Ellen D. Hanson
Deputy General Counsel, Interstate Commerce Commission

1994 Jeffrey S. Lubbers
Research Director, Administrative Conference of the United States

1993 Karl Engeman
Office of Administrative Hearings

1992 William C. Parler
General Counsel, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

1991 Daniel M. Armstrong
Chief of the Litigation Division, Federal Communications Commission

1990 Robert A. Shapiro
Deputy Associate Solicitor for Legislation and Legal Counsel, Office of the Solicitor, Department of Labor

1989 Lawrence G. Wallace
Deputy Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice