Will G Farrell 2026 Nominations

Accepting nominations for the 2026 year

Enter your nomination below . Nominations for 2026 due July 21, 2025.
Past recipients

LA's exclusive award to someone really special in the financial services industry

Will G. Farrell was co-founder of the Life Insurance Committee of the L.A. Chamber of Commerce.

He was distinguished throughout his life of dedicated service to the public welfare without expectation of reward.

In recognition of his renowned career in the life insurance business and his years of devotion to public service Title Insurance and Trust Company in 1949, donated the Will G. Farrell Public Service trophy to the Life Insurance Committee of the L.A. Chamber of Commerce.

In 1974 a full sponsorship was assumed by the Los Angeles County Chapter of the Society of Financial Service Professionals – FSP (formerly the American Society of CLU, ChFC) and NAIFA Los Angeles, (formerly Los Angeles Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors.  In 2023, FSP has officially merged with NAIFA.

The Will G. Farrell Trophy may be awarded only once each year to a member of the life insurance industry in Southern California or someone closely associated with the life insurance industry in the State of California who is distinguished in her/his own industry and who has demonstrated unselfish service to others in and out of the industry.

Only members in good standing of NAIFA-Los Angeles may nominate a candidate.

2024 - Stephen Kagawa
2023 - Daralee Barbera
2022 - Gilbert Mares
2021 - Lynne Rosenberg
2020 - William J. Foudy
2019 - Grant D. Fraser, CLU, ChFC
2018 - Martin Greenberg
2017 - Monte Merken, DFP, HIP, LPRT, LUTCF
2016 - Don Harrington, CLU, ChFC, CFP
2015 - Kelly Kidwell, CFP, CLU, ChFC
2014 - Larry R. Lee, CLU, ChFC
2013 - Tom Michel
2012 - Kimberly Michel
2011 - Carl E. Dickerson
2010 - David V. Dellinger
2009 - Larry Lambert, CLU, CFP®
2008 - Gerald Kouzmanoff, CLU, ChFC
2007 - John A. Davidson, LUTCF, FSS
2006 - Gordon T. Colburn, RHU
2005 - Michael E. Curry, CLU, CEBS
2004 - Richard H. Linsday, ChFC, AEP, CLU
2003 - Emile J. Bayle, CLU, ChFC
2002 - W. Harold Petersen, RHU
2001 - Dave Davis, CLU, ChFC
1999 - Michael M. Flynn, CLU
1998 - Arthur D. Kraus, CLU, ChFC, CFP
1997 - Albert T. Horton, CLU, ChFC
1996 - William W. Davies, CLU, ChFC
1995 - Alan C. Davidson, CLU, ChFC
1994 - Louis J. Cassani, CLU
1993 - John J. Jack Carroll III, CLU
1992 - G. Sydney Barton, CLU
1991 - Willisten Bradway, CLU
1990 - Alfred Hastings, CLU, ChFC
1989 - Peter W. Mullin, CLU
1988 - Mel Hebert, CLU, ChFC, CFP
1987 - Betty Tellefsen, CAE
1986 - H. M. Wammack, Jr., CLU
1985 - Don H. Mehlig, CLU, ChFC
1984 - Robert B. Hanseen, CLU
1983 - Robert S. Albritton, CLU
1982 - Walter B. Gerken, CLU
1981 - William N. Klove, CLU
1980 - Earl Clark, CLU
1979 - Frank Nathan, CLU
1978 - Howard E. Nevonen, CLU
1977 - Grace Chow
1976 - Fred A. Schnell, CLU
1975 - J. Gordon Gourley, CLU
1974 - Robert L. Woods, CLU
1969 - George N. Quigley, CLU
1968 - Bruce Bare, Sr., CLU
1967 - V. John Krehebiel, CLU
1966 - Harold S. Parsons
1965 - Fred A. McMaster, CLU
1964 - Rolland R. Hayes, Jr.
1963 - John M. Russon, CLU
1962 - Robert A. Brown, Sr.
1961 - Ron Stever, CLU
1960 - Gerald W. Page, CLU
1959 - Russell L. Hoghe, CLU
1958 - Lloyd Lafot, CLU
1957 - Charles E. Bent
1956 - Walter G. Gastril
1955 - John W. Yates
1954 - John R. Mage, CLU
1953 - Joseph C. Charlevile
1952 - Charles E. Cleeton, CLU
1951 - Kellogg Van Winkle, CLU
1950 - Roy Ray Roberts
1949 - Clark F. Bell

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