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NASAA Awards

Outstanding Service Award
Blue Sky Cube Linda Cena, Michigan
Matt Kitzi, Missouri
A. Heath Abshure Marc Minor, New York
Jim Mumford, Iowa
Arkansas Vincent Russo, Georgia
Daniel Tanaka, New Mexico
Steven D. Irwin Tanya Weber, Mississippi
Pennsylvania

The Blue Sky Cube, NASAAs highest honor, recognizes Distinguished Service Award
career achievement and distinguished contributions Jake van der Laan, New Brunswick
to securities regulation. It is named for Blue Sky Law,
the umbrella term for state laws throughout the United
States that regulate the offering and sale of securities. Lifetime Achievement Award
Kansas enacted the first Blue Sky Law in 1911 to Robert Lam, Pennsylvania
protect investors from speculative schemes that, in the
words of a judge of the period, had no more substance
than so many feet of blue sky.

NASAA President Heath Abshure (right) presents the Blue Sky Former NASAA President David Massey (left) presents the
Cube to Pennsylvania Banking and Securities Commissioner Lifetime Achievement Award to retired Pennsylvania Securities
Steven Irwin at NASAA s annual conference in Salt Lake City. Commissioner Robert Lam.

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