{"id":5655,"date":"2016-05-15T19:54:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T14:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/?p=5655"},"modified":"2019-06-03T14:08:23","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:08:23","slug":"new-hampshires-tom-minkler-honored-with-woodworth-memorial-award-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/2016\/05\/15\/new-hampshires-tom-minkler-honored-with-woodworth-memorial-award-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire\u2019s Tom Minkler Honored with Woodworth Memorial Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The Independent Insurance Agents &amp; Brokers (IIABA or the Big \u201cI\u201d) has awarded <strong>Tom Minkler<\/strong>, CIC, with the <strong>Woodworth Memorial Award<\/strong>, the highest honor the association bestows on one of its members, during the annual Big \u201cI\u201d Legislative Conference. Minkler is president of the Clark-Mortenson Agency in Keene, New Hampshire, and <span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentagent.com\/News\/PressReleases\/Pages\/2013\/LD10032013_Minkler.aspx\">former Big \u201cI\u201d chairman<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">The Woodworth Memorial Award recognizes the meritorious and outstanding contributions of an independent agent or broker to the national association, to his or her Big \u201cI\u201d colleagues and to the insurance industry.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">\u201cThe Big \u2018I\u2019 is proud to present Tom Minkler with the Woodworth Memorial Award for his service to our industry and our association,\u201d said Randy Lanoix, Big \u201cI\u201d chairman and president of Lanoix Insurance Agency in Lutcher and Brusly, Louisiana. \u201cTom\u2019s dedication to the independent agency community and to his local community fully epitomizes the very principles of this prestigious award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">Minkler is a past chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New Hampshire (NHAIA), past New Hampshire director on the Big \u201cI\u201d Board of Directors and past president of the Massachusetts Association of Insurance Agents.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">&#8220;The state of New Hampshire insurance community can never repay Tom for his lifetime of hard work and dedication to the industry,&#8221; said Will Infantine, NHAIA chairman. &#8220;His unparalleled commitment in the state and on a national level has resulted in lasting innovation and set the foundation for the next generation of insurance professionals. The award is certainly representative of New Hampshire&#8217;s appreciation for his tireless service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">At the national association level, in addition to having served on the executive committee and rising to the rank of chairman, Minkler has championed the Consumer Agent Portal project since 2009 and is past chairman of the Big \u201cI\u201d Government Affairs Committee. He has also served on various other Big \u201cI\u201d committees including the Professional Liability Committee, the Agents Advocacy Fund, the IIAA Agency Administrative Services board of directors, and the Captive Study Committee. He is a frequent speaker for the insurance industry and has provided testimony before the U.S Congress on behalf of the Big \u201cI\u201d on a variety of topics. In 2007, Minkler received the highest IIABA Government Affairs award, <span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentagent.com\/News\/PressReleases\/Pages\/2008\/NA20080407090427.aspx\">the Sydney O. Smith National Legislative Award<\/a><\/span>, and in 2006, 2010 and 2012 he was recognized for his outstanding service to the insurance industry with an IIABA Chairman\u2019s Citation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\">Minkler is active in his community and has served on numerous boards for charitable organizations and civic groups including the Keene Community Kitchen and the Greater Keene Chamber of Commerce. He and his wife Heather reside in Keene, N.H. and have four grown children.<\/p>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> The Woodworth Award was established in 1925 in memory of C.H. Woodworth of Buffalo, New York, the second president of the association. It is awarded to the Big \u201cI\u201d member who best demonstrates outstanding service benefiting independent insurance agents and the entire insurance industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 The Independent Insurance Agents &amp; Brokers (IIABA or the Big \u201cI\u201d) has awarded Tom Minkler, CIC, with the Woodworth Memorial Award, the highest honor the association bestows on one of its members, during the annual Big \u201cI\u201d Legislative Conference. Minkler is president of the Clark-Mortenson Agency in Keene, New Hampshire, and former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,218,77],"tags":[112],"class_list":["post-5655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-203","category-may-15","category-past-issues","tag-in-the-associations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insurance-advocate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}