James E. Brophy AAO Distinguished Service Award Past Winners
The Distinguished Service Award was established by the Board of Directors of the American Association of Orthodontists in 1963 and was renamed the James E. Brophy AAO Distinguished Service Award by the House of Delegates in 1986. The award is presented to those who, in the judgment of the Award Committee, have made contributions to orthodontics in addition to other valuable and devoted services to the Association and to its membership. The Award Committee is composed of the eight immediate past presidents of the Association.
Created: September 2005
Updated: August 29, 2023
* Awarded posthumously
| YEAR | AWARD RECIPIENT(S) |
| 2024 | Lili Horton |
| 2023 | John Kanyusik |
| 2022 | Ronald Wolk |
| 2021 | Gerald Nelson |
| 2020 | Gary Baughman and * Robert Williams |
| 2019 | Jaime de Jesus-Vinas |
| 2018 | Stephen Litton |
| 2017 | Vann Greer |
| 2016 | James Vaden |
| 2015 | Larson R. Keso |
| 2014 | Thomas Ahman |
| 2013 | Carla Qualls |
| 2012 | Richard H. Albright, Jr. |
| 2011 | Ronald B. Gross |
| 2010 | Richard B. Myers |
| 2009 | David R. Musich |
| 2008 | Perry M. Opin |
| 2007 | David L. Turpin |
| 2006 | J. Daniel Subtelny |
| 2005 | William H. DeKock |
| 2004 | Terry D. McDonald |
| 2003 | Arnold J. Hill |
| 2002 | Fred A. Garrett |
| 2001 | James A. McNamara |
| 2000 | Ronald S. Moen |
| 1999 | * Dale B. Wade |
| 1998 | William A. Mitchell Jr. |
| 1997 | Charles S. Tjersland |
| 1996 | Joseph A. Gryson Grady L. Price, Jr. |
| 1995 | Jack G. Dale |
| 1994 | Eugene S. Blair |
| 1993 | Ralph A. White |
| 1992 | Walter C. Buchsieb and James P. Kerrigan |
| 1991 | Ashur G. Chavoor and Richard M. Railsback |
| 1990 | Frank P. Bowyer, Jr. and Fredrick B. Lehman |
| 1989 | H. Curtis Hester |
| 1988 | Elbert W. King |
| 1987 | Eugene E. West |
| 1986 | Paul Hoffman |
| 1985 | Joseph G. DiStasio |
| 1984 | William H. Oliver |
| 1983 | Earl E. Shepard and * William A. Blueher |
| 1982 | Faustin N. Weber |
| 1981 | Quentin M. Ringenberg |
1980 | Wilbur J. Prezzano and Robert D. Splain |
| 1979 | Robert E. Bedell |
| 1978 | Wilbur M. Shankland and Hugh A. Sims |
| 1977 | John J. Byrne and Howard H. Dukes |
| 1976 | Patricia J. Kerr and Paul V. Ponitz |
| 1975 | Leo B. Lundergan and * George H. Siersma |
| 1974 | William A. Giblin |
| 1973 | Henry C. Beebe |
| 1972 | Ernest T. Klein and Richard A. Lowy |
| 1971 | James E. Brophy and J. A. Salzmann |
| 1970 | T. M. Graber |
| 1969 | B. Edwin Erikson |
| 1968 | Harold Hillenbrand and Herbert V. Muchnic |
| 1967 | C. S. Foster and H. A. Hannett |
| 1966 | B.F. Dewel |
| 1965 | George W. Hahn |
| 1964 | Lowrie J. Porter |
| 1963 | Philip E. Adams |