Outstanding Administrator Award
(Title change from Excellence in Music Administration Award)
The Outstanding Administrator Award is given in recognition of demonstrated leadership concerning music instruction within schools.
Nominations by: AMEA general membership
Selection by: AMEA Hall of Fame Committee
Criteria for the Outstanding Administrator Award:
Please upload a recommendation letter and/or support material that addresses the following characteristic traits of your nominee for the Outstanding Administrator Award:
- Administrator must have demonstrated outstanding support of the total music education program for which the administrator is responsible.
Past Winners
- Dr. George Umberson, 1989
- Dr. Margaret Ruccolo, 1993
- Larry Mabbitt, 1994
- Jeanne Belcheff, 1995
- Dr. Charles Sessions, 1996
- Howard J. Oechsnet, 1997
- Andre Licardi 1998, 2006
- Dr. Joan Dively Ashcraft, 2001
- Ruth Argabright, 2002
- Dr. Wayne Bailey, 2003
- Gayle Gadus, 2004
- David Ross, 2005
- Tara Kissane, 2007
- Peter McAllister, 2008
- Randy Wright, 2009
- David Duarte, 2010
- Dr. Mark Nelson, 2011
- Dr. Keith Y. Preston, 2012
- Kevin Brackney, 2013
- Debra Poulson, 2014
- Dr. Shannon Goodsell, 2015
- Earl F. Armstrong, 2016
- Steven Holmes, 2017
- Stacie Zanzucchi, 2017
- Teresa Hill, 2018
- David Priniski, 2018
- Mike De La Torre, 2018
- Bob Lombardi, 2018
- Robert Albury, 2018
- Courtney Castelhano, 2019
- Christy Cuddy, 2019
- Denise Estudillo, 2019
- Brian Fleming, 2019
- Dr. Gabriel Trujillo, 2019
- David Appleman, 2020
- Tim Cannon, 2020
- Paul Gagnon, 2020
- Cheyanne Leiva, 2020
- Robert Panzer, 2020
- Jamie Wilber, 2020
- Dr. Krista Cox, 2021
- Barry Cromer, 2022
- Keiko Hasebe-Dilbeck, 2023
- Nathan Kleve, 2023