2023
Sherri S. Wilder, Retired Area Counsel, SBSE, IRS Chief Counsel
2022
Paula M. Junghans, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
2021
The Honorable Juan F. Vasquez, United States Tax Court
2020
Larry Campagna, Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry, P.C., Houston, TX
2019
Bryan C. Skarlatos, Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP, New York, NY
2018
Avram Salkin, Hochman, Salkin, Toscher & Perez, PC, Beverly Hills, CA
2017
Miles D. Friedman, (former) Associate Area Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Laguna Niguel
2016
Frank Agostino, Agostino & Associates, Hackensack, NJ
2015
Karen L. Hawkins, Former Director, IRS Office of Professional Responsibility, Washington, D.C.
2014
Steve Sims, Taxpayers’ Rights Advocate, Franchise Tax Board, Rancho Cordova, CA
2013
Elliott Kajan (deceased), Kajan Mather & Barish
2012
Ted Meyer, Examination Territory Manager Los Angeles, Area 7, Small Business/ Self- Employed Division Internal Revenue Service
2011
Jerry Feffer, formerly of Williams & Connolly, LLP, Washington, DC
2010
William Taggart, Law Offices of William E. Taggart Jr., Professional Corporation, Oakland, CA
2009
Martin A. Schainbaum, Law offices of Martin A. Schainbaum, San Francisco, CA
2008
Sidney Machtinger, Greenberg Glusker, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Mary Ann Cohen, Judge, United States Tax Court, Washington D.C.
2006
Cono Namorato, Caplin & Drysdale Chartered, Washington D.C., formerly Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
2005
Stephen J. Swift, Judge, United States Tax Court, Washington, D.C.
2004
Irene Scott Carroll, Special Litigation Assistant, IRS Counsel, Small Business/ Self Employed Division, Area8, Los Angeles, CA
2003
B. John Williams, Jr., Skadden, Washington, D.C.- former Judge, United States Tax Court and Former Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service
2002
Gene Silverman (deceased), formerly with DeCastro, West, Chodorow, Mendler, Glickfeld & Nass, founder of the UCLA Extension Annual Tax Controversy Institute in 1984.