TMHRA Professional Awards Gallery

2020

Rising Star Award Recipient
Michelle Evans, City of Lancaster

HR Strategic Department of the Year
City of Lancaster

Human Resources Management Professional of the Year
Sandra Cuellar-Wilson, City of Mont Belvieu

Innovation in Municipal Human Resources Management
City of DeSoto, Paid Parental Leave Program

TMHRA Memorial Award
Kathleen Shields, City of DeSoto

Rising Star Award Recipient

Michelle Evans, City of Lancaster

Recognizes a new member who shows exceptional promise of leadership and contribution to the association and profession. Recipients should be in the first five years of their career in public sector human resources management and can include those who have moved into public service mid-career.

HR Strategic Department of the Year

City of Lancaster

The HR Strategic Department of the Year award is a new award category that recognizes the outstanding contributions that an HR team has made in the past 18 months to their City and the employees they serve. The Strategic HR Department of the Year award acknowledges the efforts made to enhance and further the mission, vision and values of the organization and its culture while aligning strategic HR practices and programs.

Human Resources Management Professional of the Year

Sandra Cuellar-Wilson, City of Mont Belvieu

Recognizes the human resources professional who has made significant contributions to the field of municipal human resources management in the past 18 months.

Innovation in Municipal Human Resources Management

City of DeSoto, Paid Parental Leave Program

Recognizes the local government that has developed innovative programs and services to solve municipal human resources management problems and create opportunities for its community to reach its full potential. This award is aimed at programs that have been created or modified in the past 18 months.

TMHRA Memorial Award

Kathleen Shields, City of DeSoto

This award is in memory of and acknowledges previous TMHRA members who were dedicated to the continuous pursuit of practical and applicable knowledge in the field of Human Resources as well as their active encouragement and mentorship of others within their profession. This award is intended to recognize the human resources professional(s) who embody these observed attributes. The recipient must be an Active, Affiliate, Cooperating, or Emeritus member of TMHRA. The recipient(s) of this award will receive a scholarship to attend the subsequent year’s TMHRA Annual Conference in the form of the waiver of the conference registration fee.