Past Recipients of the NTCA Tile Person of the Year Award
past recipients of the NTCA tile
person of the year award 

2020 Brad Denny, Nichols Tile and Terrazzo, Nashville, TN
2019 Martin Brookes, Heritage Marble & Tile, Mill Valley, CA
2018 Dale Kempster, Schluter Systems, L.P.
2017 Dale Kempster, Schluter Systems, L.P.
2016 Chris Walker, David Allen Company
2015 Martin Howard, David Allen Company
2014 Steve Young, Steve Young & Assoc., Atlanta, GA
2013 Jan Hohn, Hohn & Hohn, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota
2012 Dan Welch, Welch Tile & Marble, Kent City, Michigan
2011 Nyle Wadford, Neuse Tile, Youngsville, North Carolina
2010 James Woelfel, Artcraft GMT, Phoenix, Arizona
2009 Frank Canto, Canto Tile and Stone, Riverview, Florida
2008 John Cox, Cox Tile, Inc., San Antonio, Texas
2007 Tommy Cox, Memphis Tile and Marble, Memphis, Tennessee
2006 Charlie Bryan, Greenville, South Carolina
2005 Tom Vaughn, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2004 Scott Carothers, Altoona, Pennsylvania
2003 Gene Weis, Bettendorf, Iowa
2002 Joe A. Tarver, Jackson, Mississippi
2001 Harold Turk, Dallas, Texas
2000 Albert Thompson, Guthrie, Oklahoma
1999 Tom Ade, Cologne, New Jersey
1998 Paul Sherba, Youngstown, Ohio
1997 Richard Doty, Houston, Texas
1996 Doyle Dickerson, Stone Mountain, Georgia
1995 Jim Isaminger, Birmingham, Alabama
1994 Lou Liska, Darien, Illinois
1993 Jerry Fisher, Woodland Hills, California
1992 J. (Butch) Woelfel, El Paso, Texas
1991 Leigh Hightower, Houston, Texas.
1990 Virgil M. Smith, Jr., West Palm Beach, Florida
1989 Dick Albers, Cincinnati, Ohio
1988 Myra Cardwell, Jackson, Mississippi
1987 A. Robert Moore, Bloomingdale, Illinois
1986 Robert J. Kleinhans, Princeton, New Jersey
1985 Robert Roberson, Raleigh, North Carolina
1984 Paul Dinkel, Hamilton, Ohio
1983 John R. Butler, Decatur, Alabama
1982 Robert Kistner, Bristol, Virginia
1981 J. Brannon Murray, Jr., Charleston, South Carolina
1980 Linus L. Lechner, Jasper, Indiana
1979 John Rumpf, St. Louis, Missouri
1978 Robert T. Young, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1977 Tommy Brunt, Monroe, Louisiana
1976 Anthony Gadlage, Louisville, Kentucky
1975 David G. Allen, Raleigh, North Carolina
1974 W. W. (Pete) Hill, Memphis, Tennessee
1973 J. Harold Morgan, Columbia, South Carolina
1972 John Beretta, Sr., Knoxville, Tennessee
1972 W. Henry Miller, Charlotte, North Carolina
1971 G. Zambon, Houston, Texas
1970 J.T. (Buddy) Morgan, Meridian, Mississippi
1969 C. (Kats) Katsaboulas, Jackson, Mississippi
1968 James O. Holmes, Jonesboro, Arkansas
1967 Robert A. Baggett, Tupelo, Mississippi
1965 J.T. (Tom) Hill, Memphis, Tennessee
1964 Bill B. McHarg, Fort Worth, Texas
1963 Victor Davis, Monroe, Louisiana
1962 Donald Kirk, Little Rock, Arkansas
1961 Mrs. O.S. (Bitsy) Allen, Columbus, Georgia
1960 Russell & Iteria Lee, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
1959 The Singer Brothers, Nashville, Tennessee
1958 C.O. Montgomery, Waco, Texas