Ramsden-Sullivan Award Winners

This award honors exceptional service or contributions to IIABCal, or the insurance industry as a whole. It’s the Association’s highest recognition and commemorates Perce Ramsden, a founding leader, and Gene Sullivan, the influential Executive Director of the Western Association of Insurance Brokers from 1956 to 1981.

Year	Label Name	Company at Time of Award

2024	Mr. Kenneth R. Turknette	IMA
2022	Mr. Clark Payan	IIABCal
2020	Mr. Vernon L. Steiner	State Compensation Insurance Fund
2019	Ms. Betsey L. Brewer	EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants
2017	Mr. Jack Miller	Zenith Insurance Company
2016	Mr. Richard E. Dinger	Crescenta Valley Insurance Agency
2015	Mr. H. Scott Kerns	Brown & Brown Ins. Services of CA, Inc.
2014	Mr. Peter M. Cazzolla	Capital Insurance Group
2013	Mr. Stanley D. Loar	Woodruff-Sawyer & Co.
2012	Mr. Stanley S. Simpson, Jr.	Buckman-Mitchell Insurance Inc.
2010	Mr. Andrew J. Valdivia	White & Company Insurance, Inc.
2009	Mr. Robert B. Suhr	Suhr Risk Services of California
2008	Mr. James T. Armitage	Arroyo Insurance Services, Inc.
2006	Mr. Stephen L. Young	IBA West
2005	Mr. Gerald H. Miller	Miller-Robertson Ins. Services, Inc.
2004	Mr. Jack Webb	State Compensation Insurance Fund
2003	Mr. Donald A. Way	Thoits Insurance Service
1999	Mr. Jerry W. O'Kane	IBA West
1998	Mr. William D. Bolton	Bolton & Company
1997	Mr. Anthony J. DiBuduo	DiBuduo & DeFendis Insurance Brokers, LLC
1994	Mr. John A. Norwood	Norwood & Associates, LLC
1993	Mr. George A. Porter	El Camino Insurance Agents & Brokers
1992	Mr. George Joseph	Mercury Insurance Group
1991	Mr. William V. Glascock	Downs & Glascock, Inc.
1990	Mr. Harlan Miller, Jr.	Hamman-Miller Beauchamp-Deeble, Inc.
1988	Mr. James W. Norris	Ogilvy, Gilbert, Norris & Hill
1987	Mr. David "Bud" F. Wilson	Wilson and Company Insurance Services, Inc.
1986	Mr. Robert W. Carpenter	Leap/Carpenter/Kemps Insurance Agency
1985	Mr. Dodd R. Young
1984	Ms. Bonnie Ottino	IIABC