Golden trophy featuring UWM panther mascot for Length of Service Awards ceremony on February 10, 2026

Congratulations to all Length of Service Awardees!

UWM’s Length of Service recognition program is on Tuesday, February 10, 2026, in the UWM Student Union Wisconsin Room (2nd floor).

During the program, we will recognize and honor employees reaching work milestones in 2025 and 2026. See below for a complete listing of this year’s ceremony honorees.

Help Us Plan

Are you being honored and plan to attend? Use this awardee-only link to RSVP by January 30.

Non-awardees planning to attend, kindly RSVP by February 5.

2025-2026 Honorees

5 Years
  • Scott Albrecht
  • Lisa Alzalde
  • Marion Archer
  • Natachia Attewell
  • Jake Azinger
  • Kent Bailey
  • Kelly Ball
  • Xuefeng Bao
  • Rachel Barbon
  • Ashley Barlow
  • Adrienne Birkholz
  • Ai Bo
  • Julie Bock
  • Caitlin Bowman
  • Kevin Brandt
  • Georgia Brown
  • Brian Bubnich
  • Yaidi Cancel Martinez
  • Esther Chan
  • Sheng Chang
  • Elina Chekan
  • Cheng Chen
  • Clayton Cloutier
  • Ashley Conrad
  • Therese Crary
  • Paul Crosby
  • Shaun Doyne
  • William Dussault
  • Heather Ehnert
  • Stefano Fabiano
  • Michael Farrell
  • Colleen Ference-Burke
  • Colin Flanner
  • Carrie Fleider
  • Jennifer Francis
  • Lindsay Frost
  • Kristin Gaura
  • Annalese Gerber
  • Michael Gibisser
  • Elizabeth Gillen
  • Amanda Grober
  • Barbara Haase
  • Ke’Andra Hagans
  • Catherine Hansen
  • Rachel Hegland
  • Jane Hereth
  • Julia Hernandez
  • Ricardo Hernandez
  • Jerry Herr
  • David Hulbert
  • Adam Hundt
  • Bernestine Jeffers
  • Heidi Jeter
  • Melanie Johnson
  • Nick Johnson
  • Jeffrey Jordan
  • Michaela Kaiser
  • Amanda Kendall
  • Eric Kerwin
  • Mingyu Kim
  • Catherine Kirchman
  • Christine Klingbiel
  • Milena Krstic
  • Kristin Lampe
  • Glynn Lane
  • Wan-Chen Lee
  • Andrew Levesque
  • Zachary Lunak
  • Sam Malave Roldan
  • Anthony Marinetti
  • Adrienne Markiewicz
  • Laura Martinez Geijo Roman
  • Marcelo Martinez
  • Jill McClary-Gutierrez
  • Amanda Mentjes
  • Steven Michael
  • Jeremy Miner
  • Koa Moldenhauer
  • Ben Mompier
  • Shavonn Montgomery-Brown
  • Nick Moroder
  • Anjana Mudambi
  • Hannah Murphy
  • Beca Mussatti
  • Valeria Navarro Villegas
  • Joseph O’Halloran
  • Robert Packard
  • Debbie Pagel
  • William Penn
  • Alayna Pernell
  • Constance Phillips
  • Jeremy Plunkett
  • Mischa Premeau
  • Michael Puiszis
  • Rachel Rautmann
  • Jessica Reese
  • Mackenzie Ringle
  • Adrian Robar
  • Gary Ross
  • Nathan Ruehle
  • Analise Sandoval
  • Efrain Sandoval
  • Renee Scampini
  • Melissa Scanlan
  • Jill Schanon Macek
  • Anna Scheiber
  • Anna Schmidt
  • Stephanie Schrader
  • Giorgo Sertsios Belmar
  • Allisa Sikes
  • Jessica Slocum
  • Kristy Sprung
  • Laura Squire
  • Keimei Sugiyama
  • Adeeb Taujoo
  • Aliah Taylor
  • Sam Tennis
  • Melissa Tesch
  • Jennifer Tobin
  • Pamela Treisman
  • Jane Trofka
  • Cathie Turk
  • Andy Turner
  • Brant Ungerer
  • Katie Vanbommel
  • Isabella Virrueta
  • Christal Wagner
  • Timothy Wahl
  • Bridgett Watkins
  • Derek Webb
  • William Weber
  • Sarah Weidner
  • Linda Wesp
  • Christine Wiley
  • Stephanie Wilke
  • Michael Winans
  • Greg Winters
  • Melinda Wucherer
  • Musa Yahaya
  • John Yang
  • Marc Young
  • Emily Zahasky
  • Karate Zubek
10 Years
  • Jacob Abdulrahman
  • Erin Adamczyk
  • Sidney Aldridge
  • Bryan Anderson
  • Susana Antunes
  • Patricia Baker
  • Natalie Benavides
  • Anna Bierce
  • Andrew Brandt
  • Kathleen Breuer
  • Amanda Brickner
  • Melissa Brown
  • Benjamin Buesing
  • Avery Burke
  • Kyle Bursaw
  • Keith Carpenter
  • Jie Chen
  • Dillon Christensen
  • Jamie Cimpl-Wiemer
  • Susan Cohen
  • Patricia Collins Gordon
  • Rachel Compton
  • Ana Conant
  • Michael Condon
  • Ericka Copeland-Malone
  • Lisa Cottingham
  • Antonio Cruz
  • David Delgado
  • Daniel Deluca
  • Angela D’Fantis
  • Keith Dookeran
  • Jaemi Dudley
  • Justin Dupont
  • Regina Ellingson
  • Amanda Elliott
  • Bryant Ellis
  • Julie Ellis
  • Clare Faurote
  • Josh Fleming
  • Jody Forbeck
  • Michael Ford
  • Bessie Francis
  • Gene Gallistel
  • Ali Gattoni
  • Kristine Gaynor
  • Tamicah Gelting
  • Carla Greve
  • Kelly Grulkowski
  • Jacob Hanson
  • Melody Harries
  • Bronwyn Hazelwood
  • Lynn Helmke
  • Kimberly Hernandez
  • Allen Holle
  • Karl Holten
  • Sandra Horse
  • Stephen Hou
  • Ying Hu
  • John Huck
  • Adam Husslein
  • Cazandra Ivy
  • Colleen Janczewski
  • Peter Jankowski
  • Kyle Jansson
  • Elizabeth Jastrab
  • Aundria Johnson
  • David Jordan
  • Aj Jungbluth
  • Jennifer Kahn-Pettigrew
  • Timothy Kalmer
  • Charles Kang
  • Michael Keller
  • Randy Kenney
  • Allie Kilmer
  • Carol Klingbeil
  • Amanda Klug
  • Kira Koenig
  • Rebecca Konkel
  • Rachel Kubczak
  • Nurgul Kusak
  • Brian Lang
  • J Lang
  • James Levick
  • Alyson Lippman
  • Eric Lohman
  • Michael Madouse
  • Howie Magner
  • Agust Magnusson
  • Vicki Mallas
  • Livy Malle
  • Aaron Mandell
  • Michael Markiewicz
  • Jillian Marx-Wenig
  • James Matz
  • Karolina May-Chu
  • Ana McHenry
  • Amber McKinney
  • Jesse McLean
  • Joshua Mersky
  • Ariel Milton-Kern
  • Stacey Mirviss-Jossart
  • Barry Mitchell
  • Pamela Moraska
  • Ana Myers
  • Tiffany Nation
  • Amanda Neal
  • Ryan Newton
  • Angelique Nieskes
  • Audrey Nowakowski
  • Stacey Nye
  • Elise Oberheu
  • Timothy O’Brien
  • Hyunkyoung Oh
  • Amy Olen
  • Brennan O’Lena
  • Jim Olson
  • Tim Opgenorth
  • Joel Orwig
  • Jasmine Overton
  • Rachel Owens
  • John Ozanich
  • Barb Pauloski
  • Sarah Peek
  • Christie Peters
  • Christopher Peters
  • Kari Pink
  • Ionel Popa
  • Joy Powers
  • Jennifer Preder
  • Xiao Qin
  • Deyang Qu
  • Aragorn Quinn
  • Habib Rahman
  • Tracy Rank-Christman
  • Fred Reid
  • Joseph Retzer
  • Sara Riordan
  • Abraham Robles
  • Catherine Rossi
  • Wendy Rowe
  • Anique Ruiz
  • Timothy Ryan
  • Jonathan Saffold
  • Christopher Sampon
  • Sarah Schaefer
  • Jason Schmitt
  • Jamie Schueler
  • John Schumacher
  • Carmen Sebeny
  • Jean Skelton Opitz
  • Darren Smith
  • Hilary Snow
  • Sabrina Socolick
  • Amanda Soika
  • Kenyetta Stanford
  • Joseph Steinbring
  • Rachel Stern
  • Jacqueline Stuhmiller
  • Yongjin Sung
  • Vicki Swaney
  • Laura Swenson
  • Ronald Tagye
  • Akkeneel Talsma
  • Sarah Terry
  • Adonis Torrence
  • Ben Trager
  • Andrew Van Sistine
  • Chris Waddell
  • Bree Wagner
  • Michael Ware
  • Shevaun Watson
  • Bobbie Jo Weber
  • Alison Wiencek
  • Glenn Williams
  • Reginald Wilson
  • Ronald Wiza
  • Mohamed Yahiaoui
  • Robert Zembinski
  • Adam Zembrosky
  • Kaija Zusevics
15 Years
  • Lawrence Abbott
  • Barton Adrian
  • Dawn Aguilera
  • Nicole Aiello
  • Deanna Alba
  • Filipe Alberto
  • Tony Ally
  • Lisa Alzalde
  • Eric Anderson
  • Joseph Ashley
  • Maggie Bartlett
  • Mary Baylor
  • Joel Berkowitz
  • Jessica Berlin Krivsky
  • Veena Brown
  • Mary Bruno
  • Tate Bunker
  • Emir Cakaroz
  • Renee Calkins
  • Xiaoxia Cao
  • Philip Chang
  • Woo Jin Chang
  • Young Cho
  • Christopher Cook
  • Bradley Depons
  • David Divalerio
  • Jen Doll
  • Rada Drazovic
  • Andrew Dummann
  • Erik Ebarp
  • Dawn Erb
  • Christine Evans
  • Marcus B Filippello
  • Brian Fischer
  • Nicholas Fleisher
  • Troye Fox
  • Becky Freer
  • David Frick
  • Karyn Frick
  • Craig Goldsmith
  • Jennifer Gutzman
  • Matthew Halloran
  • Deborah Hannula
  • Jeffrey Hawkins
  • Joan Hayes
  • John Heilmann
  • Renee Hesselbach
  • Sabine Heuer
  • Blanca Huapaya
  • Karen Huenink
  • Maggie Kaczmarek
  • Sean Kafer
  • Amy Kalkbrenner
  • David Kaplan
  • James Kasmerchak
  • Rohit Kate
  • Tina Keller
  • Joe Kelsey
  • Steven Keltner
  • Patrick Kessenich
  • Amy Kirby
  • Scott Kleba
  • Randy Kohl
  • Katrina Kozar Free
  • Kaan Kuzu
  • Kyongboon Kwon
  • Quincy Lagrant
  • Michael Laiosa
  • Itziar Lazkano
  • Eric Leaf
  • Curra Leflore
  • Krista Lisdahl
  • Bryce Lord
  • Jerad Lumina
  • Joe Maddalena
  • William Malcuit
  • John Manning
  • Matt Matisko
  • Heather Maus
  • Adam Mercer
  • Clemence Mihalcea
  • Todd Miller
  • John Minz
  • Ann Mitchell Moore
  • Dragoslav Momcilovic
  • Rosemarie Morales
  • Stuart Moulthrop
  • Meghan Murphy-Lee
  • Daniel Neuwirth
  • Emmanuel Ngui
  • Dana Northrup
  • Amanda Obermeyer
  • Nicholas Orlando
  • Nicole Oswald
  • Wilkistar Otieno
  • Peggy Otwell
  • Patrick Paczesny
  • Karen Palmersheim
  • Hanyong Park
  • Chelsea Pedler
  • Wilhelm Peekhaus
  • Jay Peine
  • Sarah Perkins
  • Richard Popp
  • Christopher Quinn
  • Selvakumar Ramakrishnan
  • LaTonya Ramsey
  • Mary Reblin
  • Tanika Reesnes
  • Katie Rose
  • Marvell Ruppel
  • Angie Sadowsky
  • Nicole Schanen
  • Steven Schintgen
  • Molly Schreiber
  • Dave Schuckit
  • Megan Shea
  • Mandy Sheriff
  • Aamir Siddiqi
  • Brooke Slavens
  • Thomas Sly-Lundasi
  • Erik Solita
  • Jeffrey Sommers
  • Shirley Sondej
  • Maryann Sonsalla
  • Trisha Springstead
  • Laura Stark
  • Jen Steinheiser
  • Angel Stoddard
  • Richard Suminski
  • Kurt Svoboda
  • Kristen Swanson
  • Andy Thimmesch
  • Julie Thomas
  • Vipavee Thongpriwan
  • Pei-Yun Tsai
  • Dorrie Van Kerkvoorde
  • Jorge Vargas Matarrita
  • Pamela Villanueva
  • Mark Wahl
  • Karl Wallick
  • Shane Walsh
  • Inga Wang
  • Lance Weinhardt
  • Thea Wells
  • Mary Wilde
  • Brian Williams
  • David Witzling
  • Karen Wolfert
  • Zengwang Xu
  • Hyejin Yoon
  • Amy Zippel
20 Years
  • John Alioto
  • Corbett Anderson
  • Rob Bodart
  • Christine Boehm
  • Kristen Bornstein
  • Suzanne Boyd
  • Kristie Brooke
  • Julie Brown
  • Ellen Buggy
  • Liam Callanan
  • Freddy Cao
  • Jian Chen
  • Noelle Chesley
  • Arcetta Clay Jones
  • Pamela Sue Conine
  • Carrie Cramer
  • Jean Creighton
  • Dawn Czarnecki
  • Jennifer Doering
  • Elizabeth Drame
  • Jennifer Dworschack-Kinter
  • Cesar Ferreira
  • Gloria Freschl
  • Nick Frinzi
  • Juan Garcia
  • Kirstin Goetz
  • Sharon Gosz
  • Rebecca Grassl
  • Eric Gresnick
  • Jennifer Hack
  • Daniel Hackbarth
  • Kirk Harris
  • Jennifer Heinert
  • Angela Hessel
  • Linda Horbinski
  • Christopher Hruska
  • Wendy Huddleston
  • Cedric Humphrey
  • Robin Jens
  • Tanya Joosten
  • Katherine Katchever
  • Neal Korfhage
  • Nikolai Kouklin
  • Sergey Kravtsov
  • Joseph Krivitz
  • Nicolas Lampert
  • Christi Larson
  • Thomas Lebel
  • Qian Liao
  • Charlie Licht
  • Liza Longhini
  • Sara Luelloff
  • Anna Mansson McGinty
  • Robert Marini
  • Donna McGee
  • Lindsay McHenry
  • Edward Melchior
  • Marcellus Merritt
  • Randolf Metzger
  • Deona Mickens
  • Kelli Miller
  • Nora Miller
  • Stephanie Minster
  • Victoria Moerchen
  • Courtney O’Connell
  • Marianna Orlova
  • Hamid Ouali
  • Nicole Palasz
  • Jeanne Parsons
  • Sarah Patch
  • Ann Piatt
  • Kayla Premeau
  • Jason Puskar
  • Tracey Radloff
  • Renee Reckelberg
  • Brian Reimer
  • Andrew Reis
  • Kristin Roosevelt
  • Stacy Ryan
  • Debbie Schmidt
  • Mike Schmit
  • Michelle Schoenecker
  • Kathryn Scholz
  • Gina Seegers Szablewski
  • Arijit Sen
  • Robert Sherman
  • Valeriy Sibilkov
  • Lori Sieckert
  • Daniel Siercks
  • Lisa Silverman
  • Alan Singer
  • Cameron Stearns
  • Jeff Stencel
  • Zack Steuerwald
  • Alexandra Torinus
  • Renato Umali
  • Kate Valerius
  • Chia Vang
  • Stephen Wetzel
  • Molly Wierzbicki
  • Lenore Wilkas
  • Shangping Xu
  • Magaly Zeise
  • Jian Zhao
  • Christopher Zills
25 Years
  • Elena Abend
  • Daniel Agterberg
  • Pam Akers
  • Anita Alkhas
  • Grace Ambrose
  • Ingrid Applbaum
  • Kalman Applbaum
  • Stephen Augustine
  • Razia Azen
  • Matt Baran
  • Robert Beck
  • Shelly Bednar
  • Tom Bjornstad
  • Vicki Bott
  • Kate Brondino
  • Jonathan Broskowski
  • Shirley Burks
  • Barry Cameron
  • Michael Carvan
  • Vincent Ciatti
  • Celeste Clark
  • David Clark
  • Debashis Dasgupta
  • Susan Davies
  • Christina DeSpears
  • Lisa Disalvo
  • Aaron Dobbs
  • Scott Drewianka
  • Louisa Eastman
  • Jennifer Elsner-Miller
  • Rosemarie Feiza-Lenz
  • Lori Fitzenberger
  • Joseph Franecki
  • Sandra Grayson
  • James Harris
  • Cynthia Hayes
  • Dawn Hennes
  • Cleangelia Huewitt
  • Kevin Jahnke
  • Brandon James
  • Quincy Jones
  • Travis Jones
  • Jennifer Jordan
  • John Jordan
  • Jill Jurena
  • Sharon Kaempfer
  • Stefan Kartman
  • Brett Ketter
  • Andrew Kincaid
  • Bonnie Klein-Tasman
  • James Klingbiel
  • Jennifer Klumpp
  • Richard Koehler
  • Svetlana Korolev
  • Larissa Lampkins Cobb
  • Vincent Larson
  • Tawney Latona
  • Istvan Lauko
  • Vivian Lei
  • Cora Lewis
  • Jin Li
  • Shelley Lund
  • Christopher Lyons
  • Thomas Malaby
  • Tricia Maldonado
  • Laurie Marks
  • Michael Masalewicz
  • Joan Mayr
  • Robert McCaw
  • Raeleen McMillion
  • Louis Molina
  • Antu Murshid
  • Jennifer Nemke
  • Rebecca Neumann
  • Michelle Nobbe
  • Kevin O’Connor
  • Boris Okun
  • Sarah Osborne
  • Sara Pagliaroni
  • Sara Benesh
  • Cassandra Phillips
  • Juli Pickering
  • Gabriella Pinter
  • Michael Proell
  • Adeeb Rahman
  • Johnny Rasavong
  • Joel Rast
  • Chad Rathsack
  • Nancy Rice
  • Jayson Rock
  • Joette Rockow
  • Jonathan Sabez
  • Carla Sagert
  • Kathleen Schilling
  • Benjamin Schneider
  • Romila Singh
  • Atish Sinha
  • Robert Sorenson
  • Maria Estrella Sotomayor
  • Mark Srite
  • Susan Stalewski
  • Goran Stanojevic
  • Rajeswari Swaminathan
  • Brian Switala
  • Kyle Talbott
  • Marc Tasman
  • Kristin Terwelp
  • Bozena Tieszen
  • Hani Titi
  • Shulammite Umeseaka
  • Robin Van Harpen
  • Gloria Wabanimkee
  • Ying Wang
  • Stephanie Warner
  • Tanganyika Weathers
  • Michael Weinert
  • Wendy Welsh
  • Stephen Wester
  • Lisa Williams
  • Lixun Zhang
30 Years
  • Marion Angeloff Angeloff
  • Bettina Arnold
  • Diana Borders
  • Uk Heo
  • Tammy Howard
  • Ellen Jacob
  • Rita Luswata-Muwonge
  • Annie Melchior
  • Timothy Noonan
  • Heather Owen
  • Kalyani Rai
  • Tammy Stroschein-Taylor
  • Jennifer Weinzierl
  • Stephen White
  • Lori Woodburn
  • Andrea Zweifel
35 Years
  • Dean Allen
  • Paul Brodwin
  • Martha Carlin
  • Eric Dietenberger
  • Bonnie Gonnering
  • Leila Graham
  • Deann Huinker
  • Jeffrey Karron
  • Kevin Miller
  • James Peoples
  • Deloise Snow
  • Bruno Wolff
40 Years
  • James Baxter
  • Debbie Downer
  • John Heywood
  • Kathleen Koch
  • Larry Linvik
  • Elise Nicks
  • Chris Parks
  • Pradeep Rohatgi
  • Hamid Seifoddini
45 Years
  • Ryoichi Amano
  • Mohsen Bahmani-Oskooee
  • Maribeth Sacho

Employee Recognition at Men’s Basketball Game: Sunday, February 15 at 2 p.m., UWM Panthers vs UW-Green Bay Phoenix @ UWM Panther Arena.

Gold basketball with tickets behind

All UWM employees are invited as part of UWM Employee Appreciation Week. Length of Service awardees with 30, 35, 40 and 45 years of UWM service will be recognized during the halftime show!

All Length of Service awardees receive two complimentary tickets to the game.

Discounted game tickets are available to all UWM employees.

Awardees, claim your tickets.

UWM (non-awardee) employees, purchase your tickets.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Length of Service Award date?

A Length of Service Award date recognizes continuous UWM service in a creditable appointment.

The date is independent of years of service for retirement computations and State of Wisconsin seniority date.

The date reflects only UWM creditable service.

What constitutes creditable service or appointment? How is the Length of Service Award determined?

Creditable service/appointments include:

  • All Faculty appointments, regardless of appointment percentage.
  • All University Staff Permanent and Project appointments, regardless of appointment percentage.
  • All Ongoing Academic Staff Appointments, regardless of appointment percentage.
  • All Fixed-Term Academic Staff Appointments over 50% time.
  • All Limited Appointee appointments, regardless of appointment percentage.

In the case of interrupted service, the award dates will start over with the most recent appointment start date. An award date may be adjusted to include all creditable UWM service if requested by the employee through the HR Business Partner.

Approved leave of absence will not count against an employee’s date.

Ultimately, Length of Service dates are determined/calculated to err in favor of the employee.

Please contact Carolina Svendsen (carolina@uwm.edu) with any questions and accommodation requests. We look forward to seeing you there!

Event Details

Date
February 10, 2026

Time
9:45 a.m. Check-in and registration

10 a.m. Length of Service program start

11 a.m. Reception

Please consider bringing a food item for donation to support the UWM Food Center and Pantry. All donations will directly benefit UWM students and are greatly appreciated!

Location
UWM Union Wisconsin Room (2nd Floor)