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Criteria and Past Recipients
Lieutenant Governor's Medal
for Public Administration in Manitoba
This medal pays tribute to public sector practitioners whose careers exhibit the highest standard of excellence, dedication and accomplishment. The medal seeks to provide recognition of an outstanding professional and to underscore the need for creative, highly skilled individuals serving in the public sector. The medal is granted on the basis of outstanding contributions on a sustained basis rather than as a result of any single exceptional public service deed. Criteria used in evaluating nominees:
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Past recipients of the Lieutenant Governor's Medal:
| 1987 | Dr. Ron Duhamel - MP for Saint Boniface and as veterans affairs minister he was appointed to the Senate. Had a distinguished career as an educator, as a senior civil servant in the province of Manitoba. |
| 1988 | John Bock - Assistant Deputy Minister of Corrections for the Province of Manitoba. |
| 1989 | Charles Curtis - Manitoba's Deputy Minister of Finance for 20 years. Chaired Manitoba Hydro and acted as chief executive officer for the Manitoba Energy Authority. In 1997, he was appointed executive-in-residence at the University of Manitoba's Faculty of Management (now I.H. Asper School of Business). Member of the Order of Manitoba. |
| 1990 | Nick Diakiw - Appointed the Commissioner of Works and Operations in 1974, becoming the Chief Commissioner for the City of Winnipeg for ten years. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Winnipeg. |
| 1991 | Wally Fox-Decent - Chair of the Workers Compensation Board - was first appointed board chair in 1992, being reappointed four times by successive provincial governments, both NDP and Conservative. Fox-Decent was appointed by the Board of Directors to the position of CEO for a three year period. |
| 1992 | Graeme Garson - Chief executive officer of the Law Society of Manitoba. |
| 1993 | Roberta Ellis-Grunfeld - Deputy Minister of Manitoba Labour. The Award recognized her efforts in pioneering the implementation of Pay Equity legislation in Canada. |
| 1994 | Dr. Paul Thomas - Professor and acting Graduate Chair in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba. Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Manitoba, and PhD from the University of Toronto. His research interests include public policy, public administration, parliamentary reform, and federal-provincial relations. |
| 1995 | Moira Robinson - Presented with the province's highest honour — the Order of the Buffalo Hunt. Robinson has served on a number of community boards, commissions and societies and acting as president for a number of organizations. |
| 1996 | Earl Backman - Former head of the Brandon Regional Health Authority and commissioner. Appointed Manitoba's Commissioner to study MLA pay, allowances and retirement benefits. |
| 1997 | Boris Hryhorczuk - Deputy Minister of the Manitoba Department of Transportation, Metro's traffic planning engineer and head of WATS. |
| 1998 | Larry Whitney - Manager of water development and planning within the Water Resources Branch of Natural Resources. As a professional engineer, he began his career with the provincial government in 1969. |
| 1999 | Thomas Farrell - Deputy Minister of Manitoba Labour, former Mayor of Thompson, member of nine professional organizations and the President of the Manitoba Safety Council. |
| 2000 | Don Leitch - Longest serving cabinet secretary among Canadian governments, with extensive community involvement. |
| 2001 | Arnold Naimark - former President of the University of Manitoba and Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Medicine. |
| 2002 | William Neville - Rhodes Scholar, Winnipeg City Councillor, Assistant to the President of the University of Manitoba, Chair of the Winnipeg Public Library Commission and political columnist. |
| 2003 | Robert (Bob) Adie - Professor of Politics at the University of Winnipeg from 1970 until 1997. Chair and co-founder of the UM/UW Joint MPA program. He co-authored one of the leading texts on Canadian public administration in 1982, a second edition published in 1987. He also served as the Politics department chair from 1994 to 1997. |
| 2004 | Dr. Benjamin Levin - Distinguished service in government and academia. Former Deputy Minister of Education. |
| 2005 | Jim Eldridge - Clerk of the Executive Council of the Province for many years as well as instrumental in forgoing strong federal / provincial relations. |
| 2006 | Ms. Shirley Strutt - former Civil Service Commissioner for the Province of Manitoba, Shirley was active in various professional organizations: IPAC, Canadian Association for the Administration of Justice, and the Association of Parliamentary Counsel in Canada, serving as the latter’s President from 1991 to 1992. |
| 2007 | Emöke J.E. Szathmáry - the 10th President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manitoba (1996 - present). Prior to this, she served as Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Emöke was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2003. In 2004, she was named one of Canada's top 100 most powerful woman by the Woman's Executive Network. In 2005, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. |
| 2008 | Dr. Allan Preston - Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (1974 University of Saskatchewan), current Assistant Deputy Minister of Agri-Industry Development and Innovation for Manitoba Agriculture Food and Rural Initiatives. Dr. Preston is recognized nationally as a leader in his profession and has been active in addressing the challenges of ensuring the success and safety of the animal food chain for producers, consumers, industry and government. |
