Special Membership Categories

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The Institute of Assessing Officers includes three special membership categories that honor those who have provided outstanding service to the Institute. 

Please consider nominating a deserving colleague using the form at the bottom of this page.
 

FELLOW MEMBER

Fellowship shall be bestowed upon members in recognition of outstanding services to the profession or to the Institute. Fellowships shall be awarded only to members proposed by the Board of Trustees and approved by the membership.
1961  Joseph J. Lennox (1978)
1962  John F. St. George (1975)
1967  Arthur L. Bergren (1980)
1967  Alfred Schimmel (2006)
1971  Luke W. Pauly (1997)
1972  Douglas G. Cronk (2003)
1974  Julian Utevsky (2006)
1975  John H. Way (1983)
1980  George J. Hill (1986)
1981  Lawrence D. Benton (1989)
1982  C. Warren Porth (1995)
1985  Thomas G. Payne (2007)
1988  Joseph J. Taggart (2020)
1991  James H. Howarth
1992  Elliot Glaser (2002)
1996  Robert Osias (1998)
1998  Nathaniel A. Jackson (2016)
2000  Thomas A. McManus (2024)
2003  Michael J. Fogarty
2005  Richard H. Hubner
2007  Michael Spiegel (2023)
2008  Andrea Nilon
2012  Thomas Frey
2013  David W. Briggs
2014  Cathy L. Conklin

2015  Susan Otis

2018  Nathan Gabbert

2019  Roger Tibbetts

2022  Anne Sapienza

HONORARY MEMBER

This membership may be awarded to non-member persons of renown and distinction who, in the opinion of the Board, have made a major contribution to the advancement of the assessing profession, or have performed an unusual and valuable service to the Institute.
1961  Albert W. Noonan (1987)
1963  Joseph A. Coyle (2001)
1967  John H. Way (1983)
1967  John O. Johnsen
1967  Sanders A. Kahn (1987)
1976  Edward A. Lutz (1987)
1982  Stanley W. Warren (1994)
1998  Prof. Nelson Bills
2005  David Layne
2005  John Zukowski

LIFE MEMBER

Life membership may be awarded to members who retire from service and who, in the judgment of the Board, merit special recognition for valuable services. Such persons shall have been members for at least ten years, Charter Members, or chair of the Board of Trustees. It shall not be given to Fellow Members as Fellowships include life membership.
2000  Natale T. Amato (2012)
2000  Michael J. Fogarty
2000  William J. McIntyre, Jr. (2022)
2000  Margaret I. Iacomini (2006)
2003  Richard H. Hubner
2014  Shirley A. Bement (2016)