The Brownlee Award is given annually to a forensic educator who demonstrates outstanding achievement in scholarship, education and service to CEDA. The award is named in honor of longtime coach and founding CEDA member Don Brownlee. The ideal candidate demonstrates some element of all three factors (scholarship, education and service to CEDA).
Past Awardees
2021 Tom Boroujeni, Fresno State 2020 Deven Cooper, Cal-State Long Beach University 2019 Matthew Vega, University of Missouri-Kansas City
2018 Shanara Reid-Brinkley, Wake Forest University
2017 Justin Green, Wake Forest University
2016 Joe Leeson-Schatz, Binghamton University
2015 Scott Harris, University of Kansas
2014 Joe Patrice, US Military Academy
2013 Mike Davis, James Madison University
2012 ML Sandoz, Vanderbilt University
2011 Gordon Stables, University of Southern California
2010 Ross Smith, Wake Forest University
2009 Skip Eno, University of Texas San Antonio
2008 Kelly McDonald, Arizona State University
2007 Neil Berch, West Virginia University
2006 Wayne Kramer, Texas State University
2005 Sam Nelson, University of Rochester
2004 Ede Warner, University of Louisville
2003 T.C. Winebrenner, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
2002 Alfred Snider, University of Vermont
2001 Carrie Crenshaw, University of Alabama
2000 Gary Larson, Wheaton University
1999 Will Baker, New York University
1998 Pamela Stepp, Cornell University
1997 Russell Church, Middle Tennessee State University
1996 Doug Duke, University of Central Oklahoma
1995 Melissa Maxcy Wade, Emory University
1994 Ann Gill, Colorado State University
1993
1992 Brenda Logue, Towson State University
1991 Michael Bartanen, Pacific Lutheran University
1990 Don Brownlee, California State University at Northridge