TOPs AWARDs
The TOPs Awards are given annually to two people - one Inn member and one non-Inn member - each of whom has quietly, but significantly, demonstrated a positive impact on our community by individual effort to live the ideals of the TOPs Award's concepts: That it Takes One Person to Tackle One Problem to Transform Our Phoenix (TOPs) for the betterment of all.
Past Inn-Member recipients:
- 2015 Patience Huntwork, Esq.
- 2016 Hon. Donn Kessler
- 2017 Hon. Marianne Bayardi
- 2019 Jerry Landau, Esq.
- 2021 Patience Huntwork
- 2023 Lori Voepel
Non-Inn-member recipients:
- 2015 Scott Ritchey - Justa Center
- 2016 Stephen Montoya - Montoya, Lucero & Pastor, P.A.
- 2017 Tim Hogan - Center for Law in the Public Interest
- 2019 Frantz Beasley - Arizona Common Ground
- 2020 Hon. Margaret Downie - Arizona Court of Appeals
- 2020 Hon. Patricia George* - City of Phoenix Municipal Court
- 2021 Gina Godbehere
- 2022 Ernest Shaver, The Caritas Project
- 2023 Charles “Chick” Arnold
- 2024 Terry Goddard, Central Arizona Water Conservation District
- 2025 Amy Schwabenlender, CEO of Keys to Change
* Now an Inn member
Click here for information about our 2018-2019 award recipients, Jerry Landau, Esq. and Frantz Beasley.