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# FISSEA Cybersecurity Awareness and Training Innovators and former Educator of the Year Recipients

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### 2022:

Awards presented in calendar year 2022 are presented below, in the 2021 section.

FISSEA has updated award year designation methodologies to now reflect the current calendar year, resulting the 2022 award year being skipped.  

Awards presented in 2023 will be displayed in a 2023 calendar year section above.

### 2021:

Credit:

**FISSEA Innovator of the Year**Kim Mentzell, Maryland Department of CommerceNomination Letter for 2021 EOY Award

Credit:

**FISSEA Innovator of the Year**Dr. Loyce Pailen, University of Maryland Global CollegeNomination Letter for 2021 EOY Award

### 2020:

Credit:

**FISSEA Innovator of the Year**Stu Sjouwerman, KnowBe4, Inc.Nomination Letter for 2020 EOY Award

Credit:

**FISSEA Innovator of the Year**Deborah Coleman, U.S. Department of EducationNomination Letter for 2020 EOY Award

### **2019:**

**Shehzad Mirza, Director of Operations – Global Cyber Alliance**Nomination Letter for 2019 EOY Award

**Richard Therrien, Director of Cybersecurity Architecture and Implementation - Internal Revenue Service (IRS)**Honorable Mention

### 2018:

**Earl “Fred” Bisel Jr, Cybersecurity Education and Certification Readiness Facilities (CERF) Manager**Nomination Letter for 2018 EOY Award

### 2017:

**Mike Petock, All Native Group (ANG)**Nomination Letter for 2017 EOY Award

### 2016:

**Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University**Nomination Letter for 2016 EOY Award

### 2015:

**Gretchen Ann Morris, DB Consulting/NASA John H. Glenn Research Center**Nomination Letter for 2015 EOY Award

### 2014:

**Shon Harris, Logical Security, presented posthumously**Nomination Letters for 2014 EOY Award

### 2013:

**Sam Maroon, FITSI Foundation / Wounded Warrior Cyber Combat Academy**Nomination Letters for 2013 EOY Award

### 2012:

**J. Paul Wahnish, Career Technical Education Foundation, Inc.**Nomination Letter for 2012 EOY Award

### 2011:

Susan Hansche, Avaya Government Solutions

### 2010:

Jim Wiggins, Federal IT Security Institute

### 2009:

Brenda Oldfield, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

### 2008:

Luke Andersen, Global Knowledge

### 2007:

David Kurtz, Department of Treasury, Bureau of the Public Debt

### 2006:

COL. Curtis Carver, United States Military Academy

### 2005:

K Rudolph, Native Intelligence, Inc.

### 2004:

Dr. Gail-Joon Ahn, University of North Carolina - Charlotte

### 2003:

Jeff Recor, Walsh College

### 2002:

Patricia Black, United States Department of Treasury

### 2001:

LTC Daniel Ragsdale, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, United States Military Academy, West Point

### 2000:

George Bieber, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

### 1999:

Dr. Roger Quane, National Security Agency

### 1998:

Louis Numkin,  Nuclear Regulatory Commission

### 1997:

Dorothea de Zafra, National Institute of HealthJohn B. Ippolito, Allied Technology Group, Inc. Sadie Pitcher, U.S. Department of Commerce John Tressler, U.S. Department of Education

### 1996:

Joan Pohly, Department of Defense: Defense Information Systems Agency

### 1995:

Gale Warshawsky, Department of Energy: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (UC/LLNL)

### 1994:

Lt. Col. E. C. "Lee" Chambers, U.S. Air Force

### 1993:

Dr. Corey Schou, Idaho State University

### 1992:

Dr. Vic Maconachy, National Security Agency

### 1991:

Dr. Gary W. Smith, Department of Defense

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