NDMEA Awards
Distinguished Service Award Recipients
Educator of the Year Award Recipients
Hall of Fame Award Recipients
2003 Vern Gerig
2004 Conference changed from fall 2004 to March 2005
2005 Steve Carriere
2006 Bill Eckroth
2007 Joseph T. Alme
2009 John Miller
2010 James Juntunen
2011 None given
2012 Mark Berntson,
Rochelle Feldner,
Linda Schmidt
2013 Timothy Wollenzien
2014 Arnola Leverson
2015 Daniel Italiano
2016 Don Langlie/Poppler's Music, Inc.
2016 Denese Odegaard
​2017 Jeanne Jankowski
2018 Gwen Hall
2019 Tim & Christine Baumann - IMC
2020 Senator Don Schaible & Representative Mark Owens
2021 Rebecca Warren
2022 Sherry Linnerooth
2023 Toby Nelson
2024 Cheryl McIntyre
2025 Julie Schwartz
1986 Royal Hovland
1987 Merton Utgaard
1988 John W. Trautwein
1989 Gordon Knaak
1990 Clifford Grubb
1991 Bruce Houglum
1992 Dale Koppelman
1993 Angela Koppang
1994 Kathy Enervold
1995 Dan Italiano
1996 Rosemary Person
1997 Jeffery Mueller
1998 Mike Morey
1999 Christie Aleshire
2000 Wayne Kuehl
2001 Charlotte Morey
2002 Mike Bakken
2003 Elsie Magnus
2004 – Conference changed from fall 2004 to March 2005
2005 Kari Moen
2006 James Popejoy
2007 Rochelle Feldner
2008 Sheila Childs
2009 Randy Hall
2010 Ed Huttlin, William Schmidt
2011 Ken Aune
2012 John Warren
2013 Deborah Eraas
2014 Cheryl McIntyre
2015 Annella Winger
2016 Joan Eckroth-Riley, Jon Baumann
​2017 Tricia Lebahn
2018 Beanie Stotts
2019 Chris Harvey
2020 Chris Dasovick
2021 Melanie Popejoy
2022 Lacey Hanson
2023 Gwen Hall
2024 Darcy Brandenburg
2025 Nicole Bernier
1988 Lloyd Bjella, Lloyd Collins,
Olaf J. Ringerud,
John A. Strohm, Virgil Syverson
1989 Catherine B. Hornstein,
James D. Ployhar,
Robert Van Voorhis,
Ole Syverson
1990 Joseph Birkeland,
Carol Guymer, Ken Enstad,
M.C. Olufson, Bill Eckroth
1991 Leon Sorlien, Karl Ulmer,
Harold Kepler, Arthur Lies,
Ernie Brox
1992 Gordon Knaak,
Kenneth M. Larsen
1995 Joseph T. Alme
1996 Orville Eidem
1997 Emilie Stordalen
1998 Donna Nannenga,
Elwood Brown
1999 Dale Koppelman​
2000 Kenneth Berntson
2001 Ed Christianson
2002 Virginia Geesaman
2003 Dr. James Jurrens
2007 Tilman Hovland
2009 Sandra Starr
2010 Elsie Magnus, Nyla Schock
2011 Michael Morey
2013 Randy C. Hall
2014 Thomas Wald
2015 Charlotte Morey
​2016 Deb Wald
2017 Mark Bernston
2018 Teri Fay
2019 Mike Blake
2020 Kenneth Sherwood
2021 Denese Odegaard
2022 William J. Schmidt
2023 Kathy Fiedler
2024 John Warren
2025 Tim Fogderud, DeVera Bowles