2007-King County Green Globe Award as a Leader in Open Space Conservation
2005-Seventh Generation Legacy Award for the Snohomish Basin Salmon Plan from the NW Indian Fisheries Commission and the NW Salmon Homecoming Alliance
2001-2005 Chair, Snoqualmie Watershed Forum
2002-2005 Chair 39 member Snohomish Basin Salmon Recovery Forum
2003- Municipal Leader Certificate-Association of Washington Cities
2002-National American Planning Association Conference-Speaker-Transfer of Development Rights and the partnership with Seattle in the Denny Triangle Neighborhood
2001- Mayor Pro Tem-City of North Bend
Certificate of Merit-Mountains To Sound Greenway
2000-Vice Chair,Snoqualmie Valley Cities
1999 American Planning Association National Conference Speaker-Transfer of Development Rights in the Northwest
1999-2005 North Bend City Council
1998 and 1999 Speakers Bureau, King County Open Space Bond Campaigns