The CPAFMA Distinguished Service Award is awarded at the discretion of the board of directors and can be awarded to one or more individuals but does not have to be awarded each year.
Previous Recipients of the CPAFMA Distinguished Service Award
2024
Sharon Trabbic, PAFM
Accounting Consultant
2023
Stephen Vono
McGowanPRO
2022
Sam Allred
Upstream Academy
Succession Institute, LLC
2019
Robert Biddle, Jr., PAFM
Bowman & Company LLP
Voorhees, New Jersey
2016
Marta Pardo
Allen Haight & Monaghan LLP
Irvine, California
2015
Bill Pirolli
DiSanto Priest & Co.
Warwick, Rhode Island
2014
Cecelia Chaney
Retired from Squire Lemkin & Company
Rockville, Maryland
2014
Jim Metzler
Retired from AICPA, Vice President of Small Firm Interests
East Amherst, New York
2014
Jennifer Wilson
ConvergenceCoaching, LLC
Bellevue, Nebraska
2006
Virginia Lowery
Illinois Agricultural Auditing Association
Normal, Illinois
2004
Debbie Sessions
Porter Keadle Moore
Atlanta, Georgia
2003
Don Scholl
D.B. Scholl, Inc.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
2003
Roman Kepczyk
InfoTech Partners North America
Phoenix, Arizona
2002
William Leach
Katz, Sapper & Miller
Indianapolis, Indiana
2002
Rita Keller
Brady Ware & Schoenfeld
Dayton, Ohio
2002
Ralph Hendrix
MacDonald Page Shatz Fletcher Co., LLC
South Portland, Maine
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