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Optometrist of the Year Award Recipients
The Optometrist of the Year Award recognizes the deserving individual doctor of optometry for performance of outstanding services on behalf of the profession and to the visual welfare of the public.
| 2007 | Edwin C. Marshall, O.D., MPH | Indiana |
| 2006 | Robert C. Layman, O.D. | Ohio |
| 2005 | Thomas Annunziato, O.D. | Texas |
| 2004 | John Coble, O.D. | Texas |
| 2003 | William D. Vietti, O.D. | Kansas |
| 2002 | Steven A. Levin, O.D. | Indiana |
| 2001 | Beverly Miller, O.D. | Maryland |
| 2000 | Randolph E. Fincher, O.D. | Colorado |
| 1999 | Richard L. Windsor, O.D., F.A.A.O. | Indiana |
| 1998 | Satya B. Verma, O.D., F.A.A.O. | Pennsylvania |
| 1997 | Linda Casser, O.D. | Indiana |
| 1996 | Don L. Williamson, O.D. | Florida |
| 1995 | Kerry L. Beebe, O.D. | Minnesota |
| 1994 | John F. Amos, O.D. | Alabama |
| 1993 | Bert C. Corwin, O.D. | South Dakota |
| 1992 | Ronald L. Detwiler, O.D. | Ohio |
| 1991 | Wayne M. Cannon, O.D. | South Carolina |
| 1990 | Dean L. Lauritzen, O.D. | Nebraska |
| 1989 | George E. Foster, O.D. | Oklahoma |
| 1988 | Richard L. Hopping, O.D. | California |
| 1987 | William D. Pittman, O.D. | Texas |
| 1986 | Arol R. Augsburger, O.D. | Ohio |
| 1985 | James C. Leadingham, O.D. | Kentucky |
| 1984 | R. Lewis Scott, O.D. | Indiana |
| 1983 | Israel Dvorine, O.D. | Maryland |
| 1982 | Glenn W. Robeson, O.D. | South Dakota |
| 1981 | V. Eugene McCrary, O.D. | Maryland |
| 1980 | Costos C. Poulos, O.D. | Connecticut |
| 1979 | Thomas S. Scarborough, O.D. | South Carolina |
| 1978 | James A. Boucher, O.D. | Wyoming |
| 1977 | Richard W. Spencer, O.D. | California |
| 1976 | Charles I. Hughes, O.D. | Arkansas |
| 1975 | Lester Caplan, O.D. | Maryland |
| 1974 | John D. Costabile, O.D. | North Carolina |
| 1973 | Irving Bennett, O.D. | Pennsylvania |
| 1972 | Marvin R. Poston, O.D. | California |
| 1971 | D. B. Fast, O.D. | Wisconsin |
| 1970 | Henry Lloyd Schumacher, O.D. | Washington |
| 1969 | John Davis, Jr., O.D. | Kansas |
| 1968 | Arthur Dorman, O.D. | Maryland |
| 1967 | Otto J. Bebber, O.D., F.A.A.O. | Colorado |