2025 ICL Distinguished Alum Award

Nomination Deadline: Monday June 9th

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. 

This year’s award will be presented at MDF’s Annual Meeting on October 3rd. Please include in your considerations how the person, organization, or business you are nominating epitomizes the program’s legacy of collaborative, facilitative, and inclusive leadership in support of Maine communities, while furthering 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
  • 2023 Tony Payne, MEMIC – Beta
  • 2024 Carolyn Nishon, Portland Symphony Orchestra – Tau

If you have questions about the award or process, please contact Julie Beane at jbeane@mdf.org.

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