Honorary Lifetime Member

2021-2022

• Rick Turner, BASF
• Richard Denhart, Illinois Seed Trade Association

2020-2021

• Tim Johnson, Illinois Foundation Seeds, Inc.
• John Schoenecker, HM.CLAUSE

2019-2020

• Bernice Slutsky, ASTA
• Tom Moore, HM.CLAUSE

2018-2019

• John Duesing, Ph.D, Corteva Agriscience
• Blake Curtis, Curtis & Curtis, Inc.

2017-2018

• Wendell Howard, Warner Seed, Inc.

2016-2017

• Dr. Stephen Smith

2015-2016

• Mike Gumina

2014-2015

• Jerry Monk

2013-2014

• Jim Tobin, Monsanto Company

2012-2013

• Kelly Keithly, co-founder of Keithly-Williams Seeds

2011-2012

• Lawrence “Sonny” Beck, Beck’s Superior Hybrids

2010-2011

• Harry Collins
• Larry Svajgr

2009-2010

• Arcadio Lozano Martinez, Mexican Seed Trade Association

2008-2009

• Gabe Patin, Sakata Seed America

2007-2008

• Bill Latham, Latham Seeds, Inc.

2006-2007

• Don Wertman, Seedway
• Francois Korn, SeedQuest

2005-2006

• Dick Crowder, former ASTA President and CEO

2004-2005

• Nathan Boardman

2003-2004

• Drew Kinder

2002-2003

• Gary Arthur

2001-2002

• John Baylor, Ph.D., Atlantic Seedsmen’s Association, Inc.

2000-2001

• Ed Robinson

1999-2000

• Fred Clark

1998-1999

• Dietrich Schmidt

1997-1998

• John Studebaker

1996-1997

• Art Armbrust

1995-1996

• Don McGillivray

1994-1995

• Del Walker

1993-1994

• James L. Carnes
• Jerome J. Peterson

1992-1993

• William T. Schapaugh
• Robert Kalton

1991-1992

• Robert E. Strosnider

1990-1991

• Owen J. Newlin

1989-1990

• Robert C. Appleman
• R. Wayne Skidmore

1988-1989

• Floyd S. Ingersoll

1987-1988

• Robert A. Russell

1986-1987

• Earl W. Olson

1985-1986

• Dale L. Porter

1984-1985

• James W. Chaney

1983-1984

• Robert L. Thedinger

1982-1983

• David F. Behrent

1981-1982

• Arden Jacklin

1980-1981

• Foil McLaughlin

1979-1980

• Roy Edwards, Jr.

1978-1979

• Richard McKenna

1977-1978

• J. Owen Gilbreath

1976-1977

• Harold Nolen

1975-1976

• Joseph Harris

1974-1975

• James L. Sutherland, Jr.

1973-1974

• James B. Massie

1972-1973

• John Meredith, Jr.

1971-1972

• W.R. Herron

1970-1971

• Harold D. Loden

1969-1970

• A. Bryan Clark