Individuals and organizations named as 2010 Champions for Children and Honor Roll recipients were selected on the basis of accomplishments detailed in nominations submitted from across the state. Champion for Children awards events were held in Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Watertown.

Click here for more information about the recipients and photos from the Sioux Falls and Rapid City Champion for Children luncheons.

Past Champions for Children include the following:

2010

Dr. Dan Leikvold, Lead/Deadwood
Dr. Brad Randall, Sioux Falls
Dr. Tracy Pierret , Watertown
Boys & Girls Club of Brookings
Delta Dental Dakota Smiles Program, Pierre

George S. Mickelson Policy Leader Award
Carol Twedt, chair, Governor’s Council on Juvenile Services, Minnehaha County Commissioner, Sioux Falls

Click here to view the details on the 2010 award recipients and photos from the Sioux Falls and Rapid City Champion for Children luncheons.

Dr. Steven Manlove, Judge Marshall Young, Al Scovel, Rapid City
John Hamilton, Sioux Falls
Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeen

George S. Mickelson Policy Leader Award
Statewide Methamphetamine Task Force

Click here to view the details on the 2009 award recipients and photos from the Sioux Falls and Rapid City Champion for Children luncheons.

Dr. Gera Jacobs, Vermillion
Jeanne Burckhard, Rapid City
Wesley United Methodist Church, Sioux FallsBlack Hills Pioneer Newspaper, Spearfish

George S. Mickelson Policy Leader Award
George S. Mickelson, (posthumous award)

Timothy R. Johns, Lead
T. Denny Sanford, Sioux Falls
Beadle County Risk and Resource Team
Rapid City Rushmore Rotary Club
Sioux Empire United Way

Ron Moquist, Sioux Falls
Northern Black Hills Association of Realtors, Spearfish
United Retirement Center-Child Development Center, Brookings

Nathan Anderson, Sioux Falls
Brenda Wade Schmidt, reporter, Sioux Falls Argus Leader
The Banquet, Project SOS (Save One Student), Sioux Falls
First PREMIER Bank/PREMIER Bankcard

Judge Janine Kern, Rapid City
M. Kathie Tuntland, Brookings
Central States Fire Apparatus/Rosenbauer America, Lyons
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota, Sioux Falls

Francis McCabe, Yankton
Mary Askern, reporter, Pierre Capital Journal
Rapid City Regional Hospital
Child Advocacy Center of the Black Hills

Aisha Talley, reporter Madison Daily News
KOTA-TV, Rapid City
Cheyenne River Youth Project, Eagle Butte
Pam Bollinger, Sioux Falls

Irene L. Harrison, Rosebud
Dell Rapids Ambulance Service
David J. Law, Greater Dakota News Service, Watertown
SENCORE

Linda Marchand, Rapid City
Junior League of Sioux Falls
Fishback Financial Corporation, Brookings
Jennifer Gerrietts and Lee Williams, Sioux Falls, reporters, Sioux Falls Argus Leader
Bill Harlan and Denise Ross, Rapid City, reporters, Rapid City Journal

Tom Dempster, Sioux Falls
Growing Up Together, Pierre
Citibank South Dakota, Sioux Falls

Sandra Klarenbeck, Spearfish
East Side Presbyterian Church, Sioux Falls

Cathy Brechtelsbauer, Sioux Falls

Judge Marshall Young, Rapid City