Robert Dineen Award for Outstanding Service and Contribution
to the State Regulation of Insurance

In June 1989, the NAIC established the Robert Dineen Award in honor of the founder of NAIC's Support and Services Office. The award is designed to honor a staff member of an insurance department who has made an outstanding contribution to state regulation of insurance, and exhibits an attitude and performs activities fostering the advancement of the insurance regulatory profession.

• Past Honorees
• Information Required for Nominations
• Criteria for Selection
   

Past Honorees

• 1989
  Dick Brock, Kansas Department of Insurance
  John Montgomery, California Department of Insurance
   
• 1990
  James W. Schacht, Chief Deputy Commissioner for the state of Illinois
   
• 1991
  Terence Lennon, Assistant Deputy Director, Superintendent and Chief Examiner of life companies for the New York Department.
   
• 1992
  Robert Solitro, Deputy Commissioner for the state of New Hampshire.
   
• 1993
  Vincent Laurenzano, Assistant Deputy Superintendent and Chief Examiner, New York Insurance Department.
   
• 1994
  Cecil Thomas, Director of the Financial Condition Division, South Carolina Department of Insurance
   
• 1995
  Norris Clark, Deputy Commissioner and Chief of the Financial Surveillance Branch, California Department of Insurance
   
• 1996
  Kevin Cronin, NAIC's Director of Government and International Relations
   
• 1997
  Larry Gorski, Chief Actuary for the Illinois Department of Insurance
   
• 1998
  Guenther Ruch, Administrator of the Division of Regulation and Enforcement in the Wisconsin Department of Insurance
   
• 1999
  Maryellen Waggoner, Deputy Commissioner for the Colorado Division of Insurance
   
• 2000
  Tom Foley, Life and Health Actuary with the Kansas Insurance Department
  Arnold Dutcher, Chief Deputy Director of the Illinois Department of Insurance
   
• 2001
  Stephen J. Johnson, Deputy Insurance Commissioner for the state of Pennsylvania
   
• 2002
  Betty Patterson, Senior Associate Commissioner for the Texas Department of Insurance
  Randy Blumer, Deputy Insurance Commissioner with the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance
   
• 2003
  Rosanne Mead, Assistant Insurance Commissioner for the State of Iowa
  Fred Nepple, General Counsel for the state of Wisconsin
   
• 2004
  David Parsons, Alabama Insurance Department
  Rich Robleto, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation
   
• 2005
  Michael J. Moriarty, New York State Department of Financial Services
   
• 2006
  Robert Wake, Maine Bureau of Insurance
   
• 2007
  Charles Rapacciuolo, New York State Department of Financial Services
   
• 2008
  Larry J. Bruning, Kansas Insurance Department
  Ana M. Smith-Daley, Texas Department of Insurance
   
• 2009
  Dr. Raymond Spudeck, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation
   
• 2010
  Steve Ostlund, Alabama Insurance Department
  Lou Felice, New York State Insurance Department
   
• 2011
  Danny Saenz, Texas Department of Insurance
   
• 2012
  Joseph Fritsch, New York State Department of Financial Services
   
• 2013
  Kathy Belfi, Connecticut Insurance Department
  Fred Heese, Missouri Department of Insurance
   
• 2014
  Lenita Blasingame - Arkansas
  Belinda H. Miller - Florida
   
• 2015
  Christine Neighbors, Nebraska Department of Insurance
  Chlora Lindley-Myers, Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance
  Michael Boerner, Texas Department of Insurance 
   
• 2016
  Kim  Hudson, California Department of Insurance
  Cindy  Donovan, Indiana Department of Insurance
  Rich  Piazza, Louisiana Department of Insurance
   
• 2017
  Charles Angell, Alabama Department of Insurance
  Paula M. Pallozzi, Rhode Island Division of Insurance
   
• 2018
  Mel Anderson, Arkansas Department of Insurance
  Susanne Murphy, Florida Office of Insurance Regulation
   
• 2019
  Jack Broccoli, Rhode Island Division of Insurance
  Patrick McNaughton, Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner
   
• 2020
  Gordon I. Ito, Chief Deputy Insurance Commissioner of the Hawaii Insurance Division
  Paul Lombardo, Director of the Life & Health Division of the Connecticut Department of Insurance
  Douglas C. Stolte, Deputy Commissioner, Financial Regulation Division, Virginia State Corporation Commission Bureau of Insurance.
   

Information Required for Nominations

1. The specific contribution of the nominee stated in a single sentence.
2. a) Present position (title, organization, address)
   b) Positions (past and present) in which the nominee made the contribution
3. How the contribution was implemented. Please cite specifics.
4. The actual demonstrated impact of the contribution.
5. Whether the contribution was developed alone or together with others (name any others).
6. The probable future impact of the contribution.
    

Criteria for Selection

• currently serving as full time staff of a state insurance department, and
• has contributed a singularly significant concept of practice that sets a new standard in the area of state regulation of insurance, or
• has individually produced research which makes an original and significant contribution to state regulation of insurance, or
• achieves the most effective regulatory program at the optimum cost over the longest term, or
• exhibits an attitude and performs activities fostering the advancement of the insurance regulatory profession, or
• has made an outstanding contribution to the literature of insurance.