Ronny Jack Coleman Leadership Legacy Award

Nominations are due December 15, 2025

Ronny Jack Coleman Leadership Legacy Award

This annual award recognizes an individual who holds a designation through the Commission on Professional Credentialing (CPC) and has exhibited superior leadership and actions that have elevated the Fire and Emergency Service profession through mentoring, teaching, advocating, and sharing outstanding contributions.

Eligibility:

Any individuals currently designated through the CPC, including former CPSE board members and former CPC or CFAI commissioners, are eligible to compete for this award. CPSE staff, contractors and current members of the CPSE board, CPC, or CFAI are ineligible to compete for this award.

Criteria:

The nomination being submitted should highlight the individual for their significant achievements or contributions to the Fire and Emergency Service within the last five years.

The application will be evaluated and scored on the following criteria:

Accomplishments (in mentoring and professional development, including the CPC credentialing process beyond their own agency)
Initiative (including helping others beyond their own agency through mentoring and professional development, including advocacy for the CPC credentialing process)
Technical competence (including serving as a peer reviewer, credentialing mentor or instructor)
Additional achievements/contributions (including volunteer activities with the CPSE)
Additional information

Procedures:

Nominations will open October 15, 2025.
Applicants must complete the online nomination form and submit electronically by 5 p.m. Eastern on December 15, 2025.
You might want to download a Word version of the form, fill it out offline, and then copy-and-paste the contents into the online form.
Incomplete nomination packages will be rejected.
The applications will be reviewed by a board-designated subcommittee that will choose the award winner. A single award will be made each year.
The award winner will be announced February 2026.

Questions should be addressed to Debbie Sobotka, CPSE COO.

Previous Recipients

2025 – Donald Burns, CFO, CTO, FO	2017 – Steven Locke, CFO
2024 – Matthew Thorpe, FO	2016 – No Award
2023 – Ben Perry, CFO	2015 – James White, CFO
2022 – Jeff Lucas, CFO	2014 – Stephan Cox, CFO, CTO, CEMSO, FM
2021 – Norris Croom, CFO, CEMSO	2013 – Richard Marinucci, CFO
2020 – Stephen C. Prziborowski, CFO, CTO	2012 – Richard Mason, CFO
2019 – Derrick S. Clouston, CFO	2011 – James M. Stallings
2018 – Rudy Ruiz, CFO	2010 – Ronny Jack Coleman, CFO and Marc Revere, CFO

Nomination Form

This form must be filled out and submitted by 5:00 p.m., Eastern, December 15, 2025

You can download a Word version of this form to fill out offline, then copy-and-paste your responses into this online form for submission.

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Nominee Information

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Nomination

1. Describe how the nominee has mentored others within their own agency through the designation process (400 words maximum)

2. Describe how the nominee has mentored others outside their own agency through the designation process (400 words maximum)

3. Describe how the nominee has served as an advocate for the CPC credentialing process both within and beyond their own agency (400 words maximum)

4. Describe the nominee's involvement with CPSE, i.e., serving as a CPC peer reviewer. (400 words maximum)

5. Anything else you wold like to add? (200 words maximum

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