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