Achievement Award Winners

The National Achievement Award is the highest honor presented by the National Rivers Hall of Fame to those people who are making significant contributions to America's waterways. The National Rivers Hall of Fame with members in 36 states is the only national museum telling the stories of the people of America's rivers. The National Rivers Hall of Fame is a part of the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium located on the banks of the Mississippi River in Dubuque, Iowa.

• National Rivers Hall of Fame Advisory Board
• C.Berdon Lawrence
• Rodney P. Burwell
• Col. Milton P. Barschdorf, USA-Ret
• Vernon Behrhorst
• Donald Bollinger
• Captain William Bowell
• Jesse Brent
• Betty Bryant
• Captain Scott Chotin
• Captain Ralph Clark
• John E. Connelly
• E.G. (Eddie) Conrad
• Harry N. Cook
• Senator John C. Culver
• Albert J. Dawson
• Bailey T. DeBardeleben
• Neil Diehl
• Marjory Stoneman Douglas
• Wilbur Edgerton Dow, Jr.
• Ralph DuPae
• Peter Fanchi, Jr.
• Ruth Ferris
• King Fisher
• Bernard Goldstein
• Noble Gordon
• Robert L. Gray
• George C. Grugett
• Jesse B. Gunstream Jr.
• Robert A. (Bobby) Guthans
• John Hartford
• Michael C. Hagan
• Gary LaGrange
• Captain Clarke C. (Doc) Hawley
• J.W. (Jake) Hershey
• William James Hudson
• Captain Jesse P. Hughes
• William J. Hull
• Charles T. Jones
• Joseph Merrick Jones, Jr.
• Captains Robert and Ruth Kehl
• Catherine Reynolds King
• J. Edwin Kyle, Jr.
• Charlie Lehman
• Captain William H. Leyhe
• Charles Douglas McGinnis
• F.A. "Bud" Mechling
• Sheldon Morgan
• Lt. General John W. (Jack) Morris
• Dr. William J. Petersen
• Captain Edgar Allen Poe
• Herman Theodore Pott
• Chad Pregracke
• B.E.M. (Ben) Skerrett, III
• C.W. Stoll
• Captain John Streckfus and Family
• James V. Swift
• H.K. Thatcher
• James E. Walden
• Captain Fred Way, Jr.
• General Walter K. Wilson
• David A. Wright
• Captain Donald T. Wright and the Waterways Journal
• William "Norb" Whitlock
• Ken Wheeler