Southeast Chapter Awards

Nominee Criteria:

• Current active member of the Southeast Chapter of the WOCN® Society – (Member of the WOCN Society with SEC selected as your Chapter)
• Engaged in clinical practice of wound, ostomy, continence, or foot care nursing
• Certified by the WOCNCB® in one of the following: wound, ostomy, continence and/or foot care
• Endorsed by one or more peers for recognition status
• Current board members are not eligible for this award

All information potentially identifying the nominee will be redacted for an impartial blind vote by the Southeast Chapter board of directors.

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Nominee Criteria:

• Current active member of the Southeast Chapter of the WOCN Society – (Member of the WOCN Society with SEC selected as your Chapter)
• Engaged in clinical practice of wound, ostomy, continence, or foot care nursing for less than 2 years
• Certified by the WOCNCB® in one of the following: wound, ostomy, continence and/or foot care
• Endorsed by one or more peers for recognition status
• Current board members are not eligible for this award

All information potentially identifying the nominee will be redacted for an impartial blind vote by the Southeast Chapter Board of Directors.

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Nominee is chosen by the host state committee. Information to be sent to Cathy Womack (manager@serwocn.org), the Chapter Manager, by deadline listed above.

Since WOCNext is collaborating with the Southeast Chapter for 2025, the State Recognition Award will not be given in 2025. This award will resume in 2026 for South Carolina.

Sydney Conrad, BSN, RN, CWOCN
2024 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Lauren Mixson, BSN, RN, CWON
2023 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Kathie Fuller, BS, RN, CWOCN
2022 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Cynthia Timms
2021 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Nancy Scott
2020 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

David Crumbley, MSN, RN, CWCN
2019 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Kimberly Benton, BSN, RN, CWOCN
2018 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Trudy Huey, MSN, RN, CWOCN
2017 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Joanna Burgess, BSN, RN, CWOCN
2016 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Jamie Parker, MSN, RN, CWOCN, CFCN
2015 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Vicky Bryan
2014 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Angela Richardson
2013 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Marie Gehling, MSN, RN, CWOCN, NP-C
2012 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Regina Holmes
2011 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Carolyn M. Parker
2010 WOC Nurse of the Year Award

Julie Donovan Simmons, BSN, RN, CWON
2024 Rookie of the Year Award

Kristen Cowperthwait, BSN, RN, CWOCN
2023 Rookie of the Year Award

Elsie Murray, BSN, RN, CWOCN
2022 Rookie of the Year Award

Mochelle Gehring
2021 Rookie of the Year Award

Hannah Cleveland
2020 Rookie of the Year Award

Sarah Gibson, BSN, RN, CWOCN
2019 Rookie of the Year Award

Jason Pratt, BSN, RN, CWOCN
2018 Rookie of the Year Award

Katie Smith, BSN, RN, CWOCN, CFCN
2017 Rookie of the Year Award

Amanda Eltz, BSN, RN, CWOCN
2016 Rookie of the Year Award

Maria Kotula, BSN, RN, CWON
2015 Rookie of the Year Award

Julie Ross
2013 Rookie of the Year Award

Ramona Reed-Chism, BSN, RN, COCN, CCCN, CFCN
2012 Rookie of the Year Award

Angela Dye
2011 Rookie of the Year Award

Alice Lowery
2010 Rookie of the Year Award

Cordelia Lucas-Sherrod, MSN, RN, CWON
2023 North Carolina State Recognition Award

Cynthia P. Hill, MSN, RN, CWON
2022 Alabama State Recognition Award

Kathryn Dere
2021 Florida State Recognition Award

Lucinda “Cindy” A. Bufford, BSN, RN, CWOCN
2019 Georgia State Recognition Award

Katherine F. Jeter, EdD, MA, BS
2018 South Carolina State Recognition Award

Martha Davidson, MN, BSN, RN, CWOCN
2017 Tennessee State Recognition Award

Brenda Rutland, BSN, RN, CWON
2016 North Carolina State Recognition Award

Charlene Demers, BSN, RN, CWOCN
2015 Florida State Recognition Award

Deborah Thedford-Zimmerman
2014 Alabama State Recognition Award

Phyllis Bonham
2013 South Carolina State Recognition Award

Dorothy Doughty, MN, RN, FNP, CWOCN, FAAN
2012 South Carolina State Recognition Award