Special IAO Categories

Special Membership Categories

Message from the IAO

The Institute of Assessing Officers includes three special membership categories that honor those who have provided outstanding service to the Institute.

Please consider nominating a deserving colleague using the form at the bottom of this page.

FELLOW MEMBER

Fellowship shall be bestowed upon members in recognition of outstanding services to the profession or to the Institute. Fellowships shall be awarded only to members proposed by the Board of Trustees and approved by the membership.

• 1961 Joseph J. Lennox (1978)
• 1962 John F. St. George (1975)
• 1967 Arthur L. Bergren (1980)
• 1967 Alfred Schimmel (2006)
• 1971 Luke W. Pauly (1997)
• 1972 Douglas G. Cronk (2003)
• 1974 Julian Utevsky (2006)
• 1975 John H. Way (1983)
• 1980 George J. Hill (1986)
• 1981 Lawrence D. Benton (1989)
• 1982 C. Warren Porth (1995)
• 1985 Thomas G. Payne (2007)
• 1988 Joseph J. Taggart (2020)
• 1991 James H. Howarth
• 1992 Elliot Glaser (2002)
• 1996 Robert Osias (1998)
• 1998 Nathaniel A. Jackson (2016)
• 2000 Thomas A. McManus (2024)
• 2003 Michael J. Fogarty
• 2005 Richard H. Hubner
• 2007 Michael Spiegel (2023)
• 2008 Andrea Nilon
• 2012 Thomas Frey
• 2013 David W. Briggs
• 2014 Cathy L. Conklin
• 2015 Susan Otis
• 2018 Nathan Gabbert
• 2019 Roger Tibbetts
• 2022 Anne Sapienza

HONORARY MEMBER

This membership may be awarded to non-member persons of renown and distinction who, in the opinion of the Board, have made a major contribution to the advancement of the assessing profession, or have performed an unusual and valuable service to the Institute.

• 1961 Albert W. Noonan (1987)
• 1963 Joseph A. Coyle (2001)
• 1967 John H. Way (1983)
• 1967 John O. Johnsen
• 1967 Sanders A. Kahn (1987)
• 1976 Edward A. Lutz (1987)
• 1982 Stanley W. Warren (1994)
• 1998 Prof. Nelson Bills
• 2005 David Layne
• 2005 John Zukowski

LIFE MEMBER

Life membership may be awarded to members who retire from service and who, in the judgment of the Board, merit special recognition for valuable services. Such persons shall have been members for at least ten years, Charter Members, or chair of the Board of Trustees. It shall not be given to Fellow Members as Fellowships include life membership.

• 2000 Natale T. Amato (2012)
• 2000 Michael J. Fogarty
• 2000 William J. McIntyre, Jr. (2022)
• 2000 Margaret I. Iacomini (2006)
• 2003 Richard H. Hubner
• 2014 Shirley A. Bement (2016)