2024 Annual NRVRC Awards
Help us recognize the people who make an impact in the New River Valley! We need you to nominate worthy candidates for this year’s awards program. The Commission is accepting nominations for our regional awards until August 13th. Award recipients will be honored in the Fall of 2024. Please click on the links below to nominate candidates for Champion of the Valley (elected/appointed official), Citizen of the Valley, and Friend of the Valley (outside the region).
Champion of the Valley-Elected/Appointed Official (nominate here)
Previous award recipients include:
2014 Mr. Joseph Sheffey
Pulaski County Board of Supervisors, retired
2015 Mr. Rick Boucher
U.S. House of Representatives 1983-2011
2016 Delegate Joseph Yost
12th House District of Virginia 2012-2018
2016 Mr. William Brown
Montgomery County Board of Supervisors, retired
2017 Mr. Chris McKlarney
Giles County Administrator
2018 Ms. Susan Kidd
Town of Narrows
2019 Delegate Nick Rush
7th House District in Virginia
2020 Mr. Chris Tuck
Montgomery County Board of Supervisors, retired
2021 Mr. Craig Meadows
Montgomery County
2021 Ms. Lydeana Martin
Floyd County
2022 Ms. Penny Franklin
Montgomery County School Board
2023 Delegate Jason Ballard
12th House District in Virginia
2023 Mr. Robert Graham
Superintendent Pulaski County Schools
Citizen of the Valley (nominate here)
Previous award recipients include:
2014 Dr. Charles Steger
Virginia Tech President
2015 Mr. Ken Anderson
CEO, Anderson & Associates, Inc.
2016 Ms. Penelope Kyle, JD
Radford University President
2017 Mr. Woody Crenshaw
Floyd County Entrepreneur
2018 Mr. David Hagan
Business Owner / Investor
2018 Ms. P. Buckley Moss
Artist / Philanthropist
2019 Mr. Raymond Smoot
Community Leader
2020 Mr. Bill Ellenbogen
Community Advocate
2021 Ms. Shelly Fortier
Habitat for Humanity of the NRV
2021 Mr. John Dooley, PHD
Virginia Tech Foundation
2022 Mr. Janaka Casper
Community Housing Partners
2023 Ms. Cathy Hanks
Friends of Peak Creek & New River Conservancy
Friend of the Valley (nominate here)
Previous award recipients include:
2016 Mary Moody Northen Foundation
Mountain Lake Lodge
2017 Mr. Bill Shelton
Director of the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
2019 Mr. John Smolak, III
Appalachian Power
2022 New River Conservancy