Kathy Swanson Outstanding Service Award Recipients

2025 Recipient

The 2025 Kathy Swanson Outstanding Service Award recipient will be announced on October 21, 2025 at the annual Toward Zero Deaths Conference.

Past Recipients

2024

  • Kathy Cooper

2023

  • Holly Kostrzewski

2022

  • Kristi Sebastian

2021

  • Colonel Matt Langer

2020

  • Howard Preston

2019

  • Lieutenant Don Marose, Minnesota State Patrol
  • Joel Watne

2018

  • Mark Peterson, AAA

2017

  • Judge James Dehn

2016

  • Sue Porter, Minnesota Department of Transportation

2015

  • Nancy Johnson, Minnesotans for Safe Driving 

2014

  • Max Donath, Director, Roadway Safety Institute, and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota

2013

  • Nelrae Succio, Minnesota Department of Transportation
  • Jean Ryan, Minnesota Department of Public Safety

2012

  • Major Mike Asleson, Minnesota State Patrol

2011

  • Bob O'Brien, Department of Public Safety
  • Brad Kollman, Department of Public Safety

2010

  • Sharon Gehrman-Driscoll, Minnesotans for Safe Driving

2009

  • Anne Beers, Minnesota State Patrol (retired)
  • Carol Bufton, Minnesota Safety Council

2008

  • Bernie Arseneau, MnDOT