Branding Iron Award

Branding Iron Award

This special honor was created in 2006 and is presented to the WWA member who has provided exceptional support to the organization and its goals.

  • 2023 Thomas D. Clagett
  • 2022 Rocky Gibbons, WWA Membership Coordinator, WWA Board member
  • 2021 Quackgrass Sally, past WWA Board member, past Spur Award chair
  • 2020 Bill Markley, WWA Member
  • 2019 William Groneman III, WWA Member
  • 2018 Ollie Reed, WWA Member, Roundup copy editor
  • 2017 Chris Enss, WWA Marketing Chair
  • 2016 Michael N. “Cowboy Mike” Searles, longtime member
  • 2015 Johnny D. Boggs, past president of WWA, current Roundup Magazine Editor
  • 2014 Rod Miller, past board member and membership committee chair of WWA
  • 2013 Bob Wiseman, past board member of WWA
  • 2012 James Ersfeld, posthumously, past associate director of WWA
  • 2011 Cotton Smith, past president of WWA
  • 2010 Kathryn Swarthout, longtime member of WWA, who offered years of service to the organization, and wife to the late Glendon Swarthout
  • 2009 Rita Cleary, past president of WWA who helped form the Homestead Foundation
  • 2008 Candy Moulton, longtime editor of Roundup magazine
  • 2007 Jim Crutchfield, long-time active member, past Secretary-Treasurer and first Executive Director
  • 2006 Natlee Kenoyer, past WWA president and long-time active member