The Alumni of the Year award recognizes Drake Law alumni who have demonstrated outstanding service to the legal profession, the community, and the Law School.
The recipients’ professional careers and dedication to Drake exemplify the qualities that the Law School strives to instill in its graduates.
2025 Angela A. Shutts, JD'96
2024 Hon. Romonda Belcher, JD'95
2023 Roland Peddicord, BN'61, LW'62 Joan McKown, LW'83
2022 David M. Erickson, LA’74, LW’79
2020/2021
Joe P. Crookham, LW'68 Jeff Goodman, LW'85
2019 Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., JO'91, LW’92
2018 Karen Shaff, LW’79
2017 Pat Houlihan, LW’82 Dan Jacobi, LA'76, LW’86
2016 Terry Branstad, LW'74
2015 Kimberly Stamatelos, LA'78, LW'81
2014 Larry Eisenhauer, LW'75
2013 Jane Lorentzen, LW'91
2012 Gregory Kenyon, LW'78
2011 Mark S. Cady, LA'75, LW'78
2010 George A. LaMarca, LW'70 Gregory W. Landry, LW'83
2009 Stephen J. Rapp, LW'74 Sheila K. Tipton, LW'80
2008 Alan Fredregill, LW'75
2007 Bonnie J. Campbell, LA'82, LW'84 Wayne L. Kern, LW'72
2006 Rose A. Vasquez, LW'85
2005 Russell C. Davis, LW'69
2004 David L. Brown, LW'75
2003 Gerard D. Neugent, LW'75
2002 Michael Huston, LA'65, LW'67
2001 Edmund J. Sease, LA'64, LW'67
2000 Robert E. Dreher, LW'42
1999 Ruth Babcock Klotz, BN'54, LW'55
1998 H. Richard Smith, LW'58
1997 Marvin Duckworth, LW'68
1996 Marsha Ternus, LW'77
1995 Benjamin B. Ullem, LA'66, LW'69
1994 Louis A. Lavorato, BN'59, LW'62
1993 Don Muyskens, LW'70
1992 Robert D. Ray, BN'52, LW'54 Elwood Thomas, LW'57
1991 William H. Englebrecht, LW'51 Roscoe Riemenschneider, LW'35 Charles R. Wasker, LA'51, LW'52
1990 Robert G. Allbee, LW'55 Donald C. Byers, LW'51 Edwin E. Ferguson Sr., ED'29, ED'31, LW'52
1989 Roxanne Conlin, LA'64, LW'66, BN'79 J. Rudolph (Steve) Hansen, LW'28 James L. Perkins, LA'53, LW'54
1988 Robert Helmick, LW'57 Joseph C. Howard, LW'55, GR'57 Dwight D. Opperman, LW'51
1987 Neal Smith, LW'50 Bea Smith, LW'50
1986 Jake More, LW'28 Clark Mollenhoff, LW'44 Alfred Sulmonetti, LA'33, LW'35
1985 George G. Fagg, BN'56, LW'58 Don Zarley, LW'54
1984 M. Gene Blackburn, LA'53, LW'55 Patrick D. Kelly, LW'53 C. Edwin Moore, LW'27