1. MSLBD Awards

2. Outstanding Building Leadership Award Midwest Symposium for Leadership in Behavior Disorders

3. Timothy Finkbeiner MSLBD Outstanding Building Leadership Award Recipient for 2012 receiving the award presented by Kathy DeSalvo Principal of Greiffenstein & Wells Alternative School, Wichita, KS First recipient of this new award!

4. Advocacy Award Recipients Midwest Symposium for Leadership in Behavior Disorders

5. Barbara Huff The Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health, Alexandria, Virginia MSLBD Outstanding Advocacy Award Recipient in 2002

6. Dixie Jordan Retired from the PACER Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota MSLBD Outstanding Advocacy Award Recipient in 2005

7. Keri Ramos Parent advocate, Topeka, Kansas MSLBD Outstanding Advocacy Award Recipient in 2007

8. Dr. Jane Rhys Kansas Developmental Disabilities Council, Topeka, Kansas MSLBD Outstanding Advocacy Award Recipient in 2008

9. Cindy Scarbrough Principal of Marysville Junior High School, Marysville, Kansas MSLBD Outstanding Advocacy Award Recipient in 2010

10. Leadership Award Recipients Midwest Symposium for Leadership in Behavior Disorders

11. Richard Whelan Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Kansas MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1986

12. Frank H. Wood Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota- Minneapolis MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1987

13. William Morse Professor Emeritus of Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1988

14. Mary Margaret Wood Professor Emerita at the University of Georgia MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1989

15. Frank M. Hewett Long-time faculty member in the Graduate School of Education at UCLA Known for the “Engineered Classroom” Model MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1990

16. James M. Kauffman Professor Emeritus of education at the University of Virginia MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1991

17. Steven R. Forness Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Bio- behavioral Sciences at UCLA MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1993

18. Jane Knitzer Executive Director of the National Center for Children in Poverty MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1994

19. Lyndal M. Bullock Regent’s Professor at the University of North Texas MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1995

20. Nicholas J. Long Founder of the Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) Institute MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1996

21. Richard E. Shores Senior Scientist at the University of Kansas’s Life Span Institute, Bureau of Child Research MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 1999

22. C. Michael Nelson Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky, Lexington MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2000

23. Michael H. Epstein William E. Barkley Professor of Special Education, specializing in the emotional and behavioral disorders of children MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2001

24. Richard L. Simpson Professor of Special Education at the University of Kansas MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2002

25. Hill M. Walker Co-director of the University of Oregon's Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior (IVDB) MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2003

26. Eleanor Guetzloe Professor Emerita of Special Education at the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2004

27. George Sugai Carole J. Neag Endowed Chair in Behavior Disorders and professor at the University of Connecticut MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2005

28. Gary M. Sasso Dean of Lehigh University’s College of Education MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2006

29. Robert H. Zabel Professor Emeritus at Kansas State University MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2007

30. Reece L. Peterson Professor of Special Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2008

31. Michael Bullis Dean of the College of Education and Sommerville-Knight Professor, Secondary Special Education and Transitions Research MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award Recipient in 2009

32. Mitchell Yell Chair of Teacher Education and Professor in Special Education at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2010

33. Carl R. Smith Member of the faculty at Iowa State University and chairs the Department of Curriculum and Instruction MSLBD Outstanding Leadership Award recipient in 2011