Jeanette Brown received her undergraduate degree from the University of Maryland and masters in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College. She is Executive Director of the Stamford Water Pollution Control Authority and is responsible for operation and maintenance and all capital projects associated with the wastewater treatment and collection system. She is also responsible for stormwater management and is project manager for two river restoration projects. In addition, she is project manager for an innovative waste to energy research project funded in part by the Department of Energy. She is also an adjunct professor of Environmental Engineering at Manhattan College where she teaches wastewater treatment plant design.

She is Past-President of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and is the 2008 Kappe Lecturer. She is on the Board of Trustees of the Water Environment Federation, vice-chair of the Technical Practice Committee and has been a principal contributing author on several manuals of practice. She is immediate Past-president of the Environment and Water Resources Institute of ASCE and is currently chair of the National Water and Energy Policy Committee of ASCE. She has published and presented numerous technical papers of the subject of residuals management and nutrient removal.

Past Winners

2007 -- Leo Weaver
2005 -- James E. Foxworthy
2003 -- James M. Symons
2001 -- James F. Stahl
1999 -- Thomas M. Hellman
1997 -- N.C. Vasuki
1995 -- Frank Dalton
1993 -- Duane L. Georgeson
1991 -- William K. Reilly
1989 -- Jay D. Hair
1987 -- LTG E. R. Heiberg, III
1985 -- William D. Ruckelshaus
1983 -- William J. Carroll
1981 -- Joseph T. Ling
1979 -- John D. Parkhurst
1977 -- Paul D. Haney
1975 -- Martin Lang
1973 -- Samuel S. Baxter

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