Award Recipients

The Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists grants up to five awards annually: Lifetime Achievement, Service, Mentor, Archival Projects, and Innovator. Past recipients include:

Lifetime Achievement Award

• 2010 — Guy Rocha
• 2011 — Max J. Evans
• 2012 — Alan Virta
• 2013 — Karen Underhill
• 2014 — Walter Jones and John Sillito
• 2015 — Melanie Sturgeon and Gregory C. Thompson
• 2016 — Jeffrey Kintop and Terry B. Nelson
• 2017 — Richard Turley
• 2018 — Patricia Smith-Mansfield
• 2019 — Peter Michel
• 2021 — Robert Spindler
• 2022 — Paula Mitchell
• 2023 — Matt Heiss
• 2024 — Cory Nimer

Service Award

• 2010 — Su Kim Chung
• 2011 — Stephen C. Sturgeon
• 2012 — Elizabeth Perkes
• 2013 — J. Gordon Daines III
• 2014 — Michael Don Fraser
• 2015 — Brad Cole
• 2016 — Julia Stringfellow
• 2017 — Sarah Singh
• 2018 — Todd Welch
• 2019 — Alan Barnett
• 2020 — Stephanie Milne-Lane
• 2021 — Roger Myers
• 2022 — Gina Strack
  
• 2023 — Cynthia Laframboise
• 2024 — Trevor Alvord

Mentor Award

• 2019 — Roger Meyers
• 2020 — Gina Strack
• 2021 — Laura Palmer-Blandford
• 2022 — Sarah Jones
• 2023 — Jim Kichas
• 2024 — Lisa Duncan

Innovator Award

• 2019 — Elizabeth Woolcott

Special Projects Award

• 2019 — Ilana Short and Kelli Luchs
• 2023 — Colorado River Compact Project, Utah Division of Archives and Records Service
• 2024 — Amador Family Correspondence Digitization Project, New Mexico State University