New Hampshire Lifetime Achievement and Advantage Award past honorees
The Lifetime Achievement award recognizes business leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to leadership in their professions, communities, and New Hampshire. Award recipients help shape their local communities and the state through successful business endeavors, active participation in civic organizations, involvement in boards, and service to local and state government.
The New Hampshire Advantage Award honors businesses, organizations or projects that enhance New Hampshire’s special character and quality of life in meaningful ways.
Click below to see the past recipients for both of these awards.
2022
Dr. Susan Huard, Community College System of New Hampshire
Frank Kocher, WMUR NH Business
Dick Samuels, McLane Middleton
2021
Claira Monier, New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority
Dr. Joseph Pepe, CMC Healthcare System
Harold Turner Jr., The H.L. Turner Group Inc.
2020
Former Govs. Steve Merrill and John Lynch
2019
Larry Gammon, Easterseals New Hampshire
Joseph McQuaid, New Hampshire Union Leader
Joan Goshgarian, New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts
2018
Hon. Linda Dalianis, former chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
Dr. Richard Gustafson, former SNHU president and CCSNH chancellor
Hon. W. Douglas Scamman Jr., former Speaker of the New Hampshire House
2017
Hon. John H. Sununu, former governor, former White House chief of staff, and president of JHS Associates
Dr. Edward MacKay, former chancellor, University System of New Hampshire
2016
Pam Hall, Normandeau Associates
Dick Hamilton, White Mountains Attractions Association
Tom Rath, Rath Young Pignatelli
2015
Bradford Cook, Sheehan Phinney Bass and Green
Barbara Couch and Richard Couch, Hypertherm
2014
Douglas Dean, Elliot Health System
John Olson, Whelen Engineering Inc.
Gary Long, Public Service of NH
2013
Donna Sytek, former Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
Wendell Jesseman, chairman of New England Wire Technologies
2012
John Collins, Dartmouth-Hitchcock
James Varnum, Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Ray Wieczorek, Wieczorek Insurance
2011
John Crosier, BIA; Patrick Duffy, P. Duffy and Associates
Judd Gregg, former U.S. senator and former governor of New Hampshire
2010
John Broderick, former N.H. Supreme Court chief justice
2009
Lew Feldstein, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Dr. Stephen Reno, University System of New Hampshire
2008
Patrick Duffy, P. Duffy and Associates
2007
Andrew Lietz, University System of New Hampshire
2006
Henry Powers, Sprague Energy
2005
Jack Middleton, McLane, Graf, Raulerson and Middleton
2004
Malcolm McLane, Orr and Reno
2003
Bonnie Newman, Kennedy School of Government
John Frisbee, New Hampshire Historical Society
2002
William Ruger, Sr., Sturm Ruger and Co.
James Wagner, Nexfor Fraser Papers
2001
Stephen Barba, the Balsams Grand Resort
Saul Greenspan, Seco
2000
Sylvio Dupuis, Notre Dame College
Kimon Zachos, Sheehan Phinney Bass and Green
1999
David Putnam, Markem Corp.
1998
William S. Green, Sheehan, Phinney, Bass and Green
Walter Peterson, Franklin Pierce College
1997
Eli Isaacson, Isaacson Structural Steel
Fuller Ripley, Troy Mills
1993
Courtland Freese and George Freese Jr., Globe Manufacturing Co.
John Morison II, Hitchiner Manufacturing
Neil Tillotson, Tillotson Corp.
Waypoint
New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts
Granite United Way
CASA NH, Girls Inc. of New Hampshire
University of New Hampshire
New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies
New Hampshire Public Television
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits
New Hampshire Humanities Council
New Hampshire Food Bank
Easter Seals New Hampshire
2-1-1 New Hampshire Partnership
New Hampshire Political Library
Core group of supporters that worked to prevent closure of Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process