January 2026 Service awards

Information provided by the Human Resources Bureau

40 years

Todd Schroeder, Tipton garage

35 years

Amy Tinken, Right Of Way - Design

30 years

Cherice Ogg, Director's Office

Scott Sommers, Construction and Materials Bureau

Chin-ta Tsai, Location and Environment Bureau

25 years

Dane Bjugan, District 2 materials inspection

Todd Blum, District 4 materials inspection

Michael Fagen, Des Moines - North garage

Daniel Judge, Construction and Materials Bureau

Robert Mitchell, Bridge Final Design Unit 2

Hollie Richey, Design Pre-design Section

Jason Ryan, District 2 materials inspection

Ronee Slagle, Training & Development

Barry Thede, District 2 Office

Eugene Welter, District 2 materials inspection

20 years

Bart Lodge, Allison garage

Brent Paulsen, Public Transit

15 years

Michael Bloom, Local Systems Bureau

Valerie Brewer, Location and Environment Bureau

Rick Brooks, Mason City construction

Jacob Brothersen, District 5 maintenance

Ronald Ehlinger, Grimes Garage

Deborah Eitel, Davenport construction

William Forney, Pacific Junction garage 

Joshua Hart, Construction and Materials Bureau

Michael Hauber, Bridge Maintenance and Inspection Section

Andrea Henry, Employee Development Bureau

Jon Holmes, Oskaloosa garage

Adrianne Knight, Location and Environment Bureau

Robert Mcnamara, District 3 paint crew

Matthew Miller, Systems Operations Division Admin

Brian Petty, Systems Planning Bureau

Joshua Riley, Muscatine garage

Jessica Shelton, Davenport construction

Jeffrey Singer, Alton garage

Nancy Sparr, Council Bluffs DMV

Deborah Thompson, Bridge Final Design Unit 2

Anthony Volz, Systems Planning Bureau

Jennifer Waddell, District 2 Office

Merle Wilson, Ames garage

10 years

Brandon Anderson, DeWitt garage

Mike Lauritsen, District 1 Office

Richard Williams, Des Moines - North garage

Ryan Wilson, Davenport garage

5 years

Eliana Alcaide, Marshalltown DMV

Marie Brombaugh, Bridge Methods Unit

Marc Cobb, Grimes garage

Ashley Hochberger, Traffic Operations Bureau

Jeremy Kelley, Grinnell garage

Del Knight, Coralville garage

Tevin Krause, Avoca garage

Eric Muench, Garner garage

Travis Petersen, Atlantic garage

Michael Peterson, Motor Vehicle Division

Eddie Schulthies, Mount Pleasant garage

Brian Smith, Carlisle garage

Andrew Theeler, Sioux City construction

Craig Watkins, Davenport garage

Camryn Weiland, Human Resources Bureau

Ahmed Yusuf, Bridge Final Design Unit 1

1 year

Scott Bach, Pacific Junction garage

Charles Beaman, De Soto garage

Trevor Brockert, Tipton garage

Olivia Calvin, Systems Planning Bureau

Michael Clark, Grimes garage

Quinton Cook, Coralville garage

Nate Emery, Carlisle garage

Douglas Fassler, Storm Lake garage

Ryan Freitag, District 5 field staff

Dylon French , Grimes garage

Brian Hansen, Sac City garage

William Holaday, Avoca garage

Semir Kazazic, Ankeny DMV

Scott Klaren, Manchester construction

Mark Klostermann, Manchester garage

Luke LeBeau , Muscatine garage

Dave Lingenfelter, Waterloo garage

Landon Luft, New Hampton garage

Macy Montgomery, Cedar Rapids DMV

Dominic Roberge, Research and Analytics Bureau

Michael Vander Wert, Bridge Consultant Coordination Unit

Alex Vos, Sioux City Garage