The Distinguished Member grade is the most prestigious offered by SPE. According to the SPE Bylaws, to be elected a Distinguished Member, a candidate must be a member in good standing who has served as President of the Society or who, in the opinion of two-thirds of the Past Presidents voting, provided one-half of the surviving Past Presidents participate in the ballot, is deemed worthy of this status by virtue of outstanding achievement or professional eminence.
SPE Past President | Year |
Bruce Mulholland | 2022-2023 |
Jason Lyons | 2021 |
Jaime A. Gómez | 2020 |
Brian G. Landes | 2019 |
Brian P. Grady | 2018 |
Raed S. Al'Zubi | 2017 |
Scott E.Owens | 2016 |
Dick Cameron | 2015 |
Vijay Boolani | 2014 |
Jon D. Ratzlaff | 2013 |
James S. Griffing | 2012 |
Russell C. Broome | 2011 |
Ken J. Braney | 2010 |
Paul G. Andersen | 2009 |
William J. J. O’Connell | 2008 |
Vicki Flaris | 2007 |
Timothy W. Womer | 2006 |
Len Czuba | 2005 |
Karen L. Winkler | 2004 |
Donna S. Davis | 2003 |
Claudius Feger | 2002 |
Terence J. Browitt | 2001 |
James H. Brackeen | 2000 |
William A. Humphrey | 1999 |
Norman S. Behn | 1998 |
Norman E. Fowler | 1997 |
Jay L. Gardiner | 1996 |
David R. Harper | 1995 |
Bonnie J. Bachman | 1994 |
Lance M. Neward | 1993 |
Henry J. Wojtaszek | 1992 |
George W. Thorne | 1991 |
Leonard H. Drexler | 1990 |
Vivian E. Malpass | 1989 |
Bruce A. Petersen | 1988 |
John R. Kretzschmar | 1987 |
Greg R. Thom | 1986 |
Richard G. Johnson | 1985 |
William C. Kuhlke | 1984 |
Robert J. Schaffhauser | 1983 |
Thomas W. Haas | 1982 |
James E. “Bo” Chinners, Jr. | 1981 |
George P. Schmitt | 1980 |
Joseph Magliolo, Jr. | 1979 |
Jack L. Isaacs | 1978 |
Lawrence J. Broutman | 1977 |
George E. Pickering | 1976 |
Harold A. Holz | 1975 |
John H. Myers | 1974 |
Theodore S. Stoughton | 1973 |
Ronald J. Cleveringa | 1972 |
Irwin L. Podell | 1971 |
Ralph A. Noble | 1970 |
George L. Graf, Jr. | 1969 |
Gim P. Fong | 1968 |
Bernard G. Achhammer | 1967 |
Robert W. Sherman | 1966 |
George P. Kovach | 1965 |
Guy A. Martinelli | 1964 |
Jack G. Fuller | 1963 |
James R. Lampman | 1962 |
Frank W. Reynolds | 1961 |
George W. Martin | 1960 |
Fred C. Sutro, Jr. | 1959 |
R. Kenneth Gossett | 1958 |
Peter M. Simmons | 1957 |
Jerome M. Formo | 1956 |
Frank W. Reinhart | 1955 |
John W. LaBelle | 1954 |
Walter F. Oelman | 1953 |
William O. Bracken | 1952 |
Islyn Thomas | 1951 |
C. Todd Clark | 1950 |
Mario J. Petretti | 1949 |
J. Harry Dubois | 1948 |
Thomas E. Orr | 1947 |
George Clark | 1946 |
William B. Hoey | 1945 |
Charles C. Henry | 1944 |
William M. Phillips | 1943 |
Fred Conley | 1942 |