Past Key Communicators
2023 Dr. Brian Woods, Deputy Executive Director of Advocacy, Texas Association of School Administrators
2022 James Colbert Jr., Superintendent Harris County Department of Education
2021 Joe Straus, Texas House Speaker 2009-2019, Chairman for Texas Forever Forward
2020 Andy Welch, TSPRA EduLege
2019 Charles C. Butt, Chairman CEO, H-E-B
2018 Rev. Charles Foster Johnson, Pastors for Texas Children
2017 Dan Huberty, Texas House Public Education Committee Chair
2016 Shanna Peeples, Amarillo ISD, National Teacher of the Year
2015 Jimmie Don Aycock, Texas House Public Education Committee Chair
2014 Pascual Gonzalez, Executive Director of Communications, Northside ISD
2013 Jeffrey Turner, Superintendent, Coppell ISD
2012 Daniel P. King, Superintendent, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD
2011 Bobby J. Rigues, Aledo ISD Board Vice President
2010 Larry Goddard, CFRE, Executive Director, Tyler ISD Foundation
2009 Johnny Veselka, Executive Director, TASA
2008 Cathy Bryce, Superintendent, Highland Park ISD
2007 Leslie & Scott Milder, Friends of Texas Public Schools
2006 David Thompson, Bracewell & Giuliani
2005 Dawson Orr, Superintendent, Wichita Falls ISD
2004 John Stevens, Executive Director, Texas Business & Education Coalition
2003 Carolyn Boyle, Coordinator, Texas Coalition for Public Schools
2002 Annell Todd, Publisher, Texas School Business, & Exec. Dir., TSPRA
2001 Rep. Paul Sadler, State Representative
2000 Riney Jordan, Motivational Speaker
1999 Jack Christie, Former Chairman, State Board of Education
1998 Mike Moses, Commissioner of Education
1997 No Award
1996 Bailey Marshall, University Interscholastic League
1995 Carolyn Honea Crawford, State Board of Education
1994 Kathryn Whitfill, President, National PTA
1993 Ed Adams, Pat Hayes, Max Sherman & Jerry Supple; Help Wanted: Must Have Education
1992 Jack Goodwin, Eastman Chemical Co.; Donna Nicholson, Pine Tree ISD
1991 Bill Kirby, Texas Commissioner of Education, Retired
1990 Wayne Blevins, Superintendent, Alief ISD, TASA President
1989 Toody Byrd, Eanes ISD Counselor
1988 Henry Cisneros, Mayor, San Antonio
1987 Linus Wright, Undersecretary of Education, Superintendent, Dallas ISD
1986 Will Davis, Austin Attorney, State Board of Education
1985 James Vasquez, Superintendent, Edgewood ISD
1984 Betty Vondracek, Co-founder, Positive Parents of Dallas
1983 Mary Ann Leveridge, East Bernard PTA
1982 Ron Stone, Houston TV Anchorman
1981 H. Ross Perot, Dallas Businessman