The ICL Distinguished Alum Award was created to recognize ICL alumni who have given selflessly of themselves and demonstrated exceptional collaborative, facilitative, and systems design leadership in achieving extraordinary things for Maine. These contributions can be within their paid employment, or serving as a volunteer, community, or statewide leader.
As this year's theme is "Aspire: Unlocking the Potential of Maine to Thrive and Prosper," please include in your considerations how the person, organization, or business you are nominating has demonstrated exceptional leadership that epitomizes this theme, and furthers systemic change toward equity and inclusion.
Eligibility and Criteria: - Only ICL alumni are eligible to receive this award. - No self-nominations, please.
- Previous nominees (non-awardees) may be nominated again.
- Previous awardees are not eligible. - Nominations must demonstrate exceptional leadership that has resulted in significant impact on quality of life at the local, regional, or state level in Maine.
Previous Awardees:
2001 Robert Hasson, Jr. - Beta 2002 Mark Swann - Alpha 2003 Lucky Hollander - Delta 2004 Nat Tupper, Town Manager, Yarmouth - Zeta 2005 Mike Dubyak, CEO, Wright Express - Eta 2006 Dr. Bud Higgins, Chief Medical Officer, Maine Medical Center - Epsilon 2007 Layne Gregory, Executive Director, Boys to Men - Epsilon 2008 Scott Simons, Scott Simons Architect - Omicron 2009 Anne Jackson - Delta, and Rachel Armstrong - Alpha, Community Volunteers 2010 Bruce Kidman - Iota, and Tom Rumpf - Kappa, The Nature Conservancy 2011 Lisa Letourneau, Quality Counts - Xi 2012 Meg Baxter, The Mitchell Institute - Alpha 2013 Jeff Jordan, MRRA - Epsilon 2014 Pious Ali, City Council - Pi 2015 Craig Lapine, Cultivating Community - Pi 2016 Al Curran, Woodard & Curran - Alpha 2017 Reza Jalali, University of Southern Maine - Delta
2018 Jane Morrison - Epsilon 2019 Adam Burk - Sigma
2020 Marcia & Daniel Minter - Rho & Omicron
2021 Shenna Bellows, Secretary of State - Xi
2022 Anne Dalton - Pi
If you have questions about the award or process, please contact Jan Kearce, Team Leader, Leadership Development at jkearce@mdf.org.
