Director of the Year -Past Honorees
Past Honorees by Category:

Director of the Year for Corporate Governance
Awarded to the director who has been a leader in guiding the Board and Executive Management in growing the company, and maintaining the ethics and conscience of the Board to insure that everything is done properly.


2006
William D. Jones
Sempra Energy


2005
Raymond V. Dittamore, Director
Invitrogen & Qualcomm, Inc.

2004
Duane A. Nelles, Director
Qualcomm, Inc.


2003 Charles A. Mathews, CEO
DermTech International

2002 Rich Collato, President & CEO
San Diego County YMCA

2001 Timothy J. Wollaeger, General Partner, Kingsbury Associates
Chairman, Digirad Corporation

2000 David R. Flowers, former Chairman and CEO
Pulse Engineering, Inc.

1999 William H. Rastetter
IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corp.

1998 Thomas C. Stickel
American Partners Capital Group

   
Director of the Year for Enhancement of Economic Value
Awarded to the director who has brought unique abilities or outside resources to the company through the board position or who has developed creative applications of new resources to improve the company's planning, operations and profitability.
 
2006
Joseph C. Cook, Jr.
Amylin Pharmaceuticals

2005
John Reardon, Director
One Stop Systems

2004
Donald W. Grimm, Director
Invitrogen

2003
Garry O. Ridge, President & CEO
WD-40 Company

2002
Peter Farrell, PhD, President & CEO
ResMed, Inc.

2001
David M. Rickey, Chairman, President & CEO
Applied Micro Circuits Corp.

2000
Dr. Irwin M. Jacobs, Chairman, CEO and Founder
QUALCOMM, Inc.

1999
David A. Purcell (head of Encad)
Metallic Power, Inc.

1998
Giles H. Bateman
CompUSA


Director of the Year for Companies in Transition
Awarded to the director who has contributed to taking the company through changes such as early start-up, mergers, acquisitions, changes in management or in managing other changes to a positive and productive conclusion.
 
2006
John H. Warner Jr., Ph.D.
SAIC

2005
Susan H. Snow & Julie Meier Wright, Directors (Co-Honorees)
Maxim Systems

2004 Ralph V. Whitworth, Chairman
Apria Healthcare

2003
Gerald J. Yakatan, Ph.D., CEO
Avanir Pharmaceuticals

2002
Joseph Cook, Jr., President & CEO
Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

2001
Eric P. Wenaas, Ph.D., Chairman, President & CEO, Jaycor, Inc.
Chairman, JNI Corporation
2000
Dr. Gene W. Ray, Founder
The Titan Corporation

1999
Richard D. Farman
Sempra Energy

1998
John C. Stiska
Qualcomm Inc. (no longer with Qualcomm)


Director of the Year for Corporate Citizenship
Awarded to the director who has fostered awareness and implementation of community responsibility using the resources of the company and by developing a corporate culture and employees who support the community.


2006
Rodney N. Lanthorne
Kyocera International

2005
Lawrence W. Shea, Director
YMCA


2004 Edwin Guiles, Group President Regulated Business Units
SDG&E


2003 Robert B. Horsman, President & CEO
San Diego National Bank


2002 William K.Geppert, Vice President & General Manager
Cox Communications

2001
Harvey P. White, Chairman & CEO
Leap Wireless International

2000
Peter P. Savage, former President and Chairman of the Board
Applied Digital Access

1999
D. M. (Don) Ings
Solar Turbines, Inc.

1998
Duane J. and Theodore D. Roth
Alliance Pharmaceutical


Director of the Year for Not-for-Profit
Awarded to the director who has made an outstanding contribution to his or her non-profit board and to the organization represented by that board.

   
2006
Chris D. Van Gorder
Scripps Health Board of Trustees

2005
The Honorable Alice D. Sullivan (Ret.), Chairman
Scripps Research Institute

2004
Michelle Candland, Chairperson
The Monarch School Project

2003
Susan H. (Ten Eyck) Mallory. Sr., Banker
UCSD Athena

2002
Julie Meier Wright, President & CEO
San Diego Regional EDC

2001
John W. Johnson, Retiring President & CEO
San Diego Urban League

2000
John C. Raymond, President 
The Greystone Group, L.P.

1999
Linda L. Katz
Senior Community Centers of San Diego


Director of the Year for
Lifetime Achievement in Corporate Governance

Awarded to the director who has demonstrated leadership over several years in ensuring consistency of board discipline maintaining ethics and conscience of the Board, and guiding his or her organization(s) to higher levels of creativity and performance.

   
2006
Ernest Rady
Various Boards

2005
James Berglund, Director
Various Boards

2004
Daniel W. Derbes, Chairman
WD-40 Company

2003 Duwaine Townsen, Principal
EndPoint Late-Stage Funds

2002 Anne L. Evans, Chairman
Evans Hotels

2001 Charles C. Edwards, MD
2000 Jack W. Goodall, Chairman
Jack in the Box Inc.

1999 J. Robert Beyster
Science Applications International Corp.

1998 Thomas A. Page
SDG&E and Enova (recently retired from both)

 
Corporate Directors Forum Director of the Year
Given to the Director who has made the greatest contribution to CDF during the year, by vote of the Board

2006
Larry Stambaugh

2005
Janice A. Kassebaum

2004
Robert Waltz
2003 Cass Cassidy
2002 Larry Stambaugh
2001 Ann Randolph
2000 Guy Iannuzzi
1999 W. Gerald Newmin
1998 Farrest Loper


Prior to 1998, there was only one award category for Director of the Year

1997 Richard H. Chandler
Sunrise Medical Inc

1996 John Thornton
1995 Ron Taylor
Pyxis Corp

1994 Kenneth E. Olson
Proxima Corp

1993 Tom Page
SDG&E

1992 David Hale
Gensia Pharmaceuticals

1991 Howard "Ted" Greene, Jr.
Amylin Corp

Past Honorees by Alphabetical Listing:
Bateman, Giles H. - 1998
Berglund, James - 2005
Beyster, Bob - 1999
Candland, Michelle - 2004
Cassidy, Cass - 2003
Chandler, Richard H. - 1997
Collato, Richard - 2002
Cook, Jr., Joseph C. - 2002, 2006
Derbes, Daniel W. - 2004
Dittamore, Raymond V. - 2005
Edwards, MD, Charles C. - 2001
Evans, Anne L. - 2002
Farman, Dick - 1999
Farrell, Peter C. - 2002
Flowers, Dave - 2000
Geppert, William - 2002
Goodall, Jack - 2000
Greene, Jr., Howard (Ted) - 1991
Grimm, Donald W. - 2004
Guiles, Edwin - 2004
Hale, David F. - 1992
Horsman, Robert B. - 2003
Iannuzzi, Guy - 2000
Ings, D.M. (Don) - 1999

Jacobs, Ph.D., Irwin - 2000
Johnson, John W. - 2001
Jones, William D. - 2006

Kassebaum, Janice A. - 2005
Katz, Linda L. - 1999
Lanthorne, Rodney N. - 2006
Loper, Farrest -1998
Mallory, Susan H. (Ten Eyck) - 2003
Mathews, Charles A. - 2003
Meier Wright, Julie. - 2005
Nelles, Duane A. - 2004
Newmin, W. Gerald - 1999
Olson, Kenneth E. - 1994
Page, Thomas A. - 1998,   1993
Purcell, David A. - 1999
Rady, Ernest - 2006
Randolph, Ann R. - 2001
Rastetter, Ph.D, William H. - 1999
Ray, Gene W. - 2000
Raymond, John C. - 2000
Reardon, John - 2005
Rickey, David - 2001
Ridge, Garry - 2003

Roth, Duane J. -1998
Roth, Ted - 1998
Savage, Peter - 2000
Shea, Lawrence W. - 2005

Snow, Susan - 2005
Stambaugh, Larry G. - 2002, 2006
Stickel, Thomas C. - 1998
Stiska, John C. - 1998
Sullivan, Alice D.. - 2005
Taylor, Ron - 1995
Thornton, John - 1996
Townsen, Duwaine - 2003
Van Gorder, Chris -2006
Waltz, Robert - 2004
Warner, John H. - 2006
Wenaas, PhD, Eric - 2001
White, Harvey - 2001
Whitworth, Ralph - 2004
Wollaeger, Timothy - 2001
Wright, Julie Meier - 2002
Yakatan, PhD, Gerald J. - 2003