MSPAA Trooper of the Year 2025

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Trooper First Class Mark Mowbray

2025 MSPAA Trooper of Year, Trooper First Class Mark Mowbray. Photo
2025 MSPAA Trooper of Year, Trooper First Class Mark Mowbray.

MSPAA Awards Luncheon 2026

Honoring the 2025 Trooper of the Year & 2025 Civilian of the Year
June 4, 2026 @ 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Cafe Mezzanotte
760 Ritchie Highway, Severna Park, MD 21146

MSPAA Trooper of the Year 2025 - TFC Mark Mowbray with TOY Committee, headed by Chairman, Ret. Lt. Terry Katz. Photo credit - Amy Hager
MSPAA Trooper of the Year 2025 - TFC Mark Mowbray with TOY Committee, headed by Chairman, Ret. Lt. Terry Katz. Photo credit - Amy Hager

The Maryland State Police Alumni Association is proud to announce their selection of the 2025 Trooper of the Year. This award has been a tradition with the organization for over sixty-five years. We are honored to recognize the hard work that all our nominees did over the past year as they each combat crime on our streets and highways. Our troopers are great. Our nominee pool consisted of heroic events, life-saving measures, high traffic and criminal enforcement, and continued dedication to the community and its citizens.

2025 MSPAA Trooper of Year, Trooper First Class Mark Mowbray.

In recognition of your steadfast dedication to duty and your initiative in enforcing Maryland traffic and criminal laws — with a particular emphasis on warrant services — as well as your additional activities, you are awarded the MSPAA Trooper of the Year 2025.


Assigned to the Easton Barrack, TFC Mowbray exceeded all others on the Eastern Shore with 1,774 total traffic stops and 78 total criminal arrests, 44 of which were for outstanding warrants. During 2025, TFC Mowbray investigated more than 100 criminal matters.


Notable achievements include locating a missing person after a 10-year hiatus, making a burglary arrest based on an ECIS Bulletin, and conducting a hit-and-run investigation that resulted in a DUI charge and the recovery of a handgun.


In addition, TFC Mowbray remains highly active in the MSP Honor Guard and assists with events for the Concerns of Police Survivors (COPS), the Maryland State Police Alumni Association, the MSP Eastern Region Explorers Post, and coordinates MSP Easton Barrack’s involvement in the Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics.

In 1961, the Alumni Association selected it’s first “Trooper of the Year”. Then and now each new Trooper of the Year is chosen from a field of outstanding Troopers that have been recommended by their commanders. The MSPAA Trooper of the Year is selected by the Alumni’s Trooper of the Year Committee, which is made up of a cross section of retired troopers. The award for the preceding year is always made in May of the following year.

Previous MSPAA Troopers of the Year

*Denotes Troopers that were also selected for the Department’s Trooper of the Year.

YearName
2025TFC Mark Mowbray
2024TFC Jack Hadley
2023Tpr Ethan Sigman
2022S/Tpr Kelly Jaskiewicz
2021TFC Gabriella Gagliardi
2020TFC Evan Ruggles
2019S/Tpr Christopher R. Toey
2018TFC Charles M. Tittle
2017TFC John B. Wildman
2016Tpr Charles M. Tittle
2015TFC Randolph S. Marshall
2014M/Tpr Frank Fornoff
2013S/Tpr Merlin Myers
2012TFC Christopher R. Toey
2011TFC Ryan A. McNeely
2010TFC Robert G. Iman
2009TFC Jerry S. Warner
2008TFC Anthony D. Dudek
2007TFC Jason L. Stevens
2006TFC Daniel S. Everett
2005TFC Colin R. Sweitzer
2004TFC Christopher M. Conner
2003TFC Richard E. Carroll III
2002TFC Kevin M. Moriarity
2001* TFC Robert J. Stryjewski Jr.
2000TFC Richard T. Bachtel
1999TFC J.B. Robinson
1998TFC Thomas Lubinski
1997TFC Christopher Hannon
1996TFC Ronald Coccodrilli
1995* TFC Ronald W. Cullison Jr.
1994TFC Ronald Yaniga
1993TFC Richard J. Schelfe
1992TFC Michael D. Kretzer
1991TFC Robert V. Calo
1990TFC Carl D. Miller
1989TFC Steven L. McCarty
1988TFC James S. Emerick
1987TFC David C. Reichenbaugh
1986TFC William E. Smith
1985TFC Homer R. Rich
1984TFC Wendell R. Cover
1983TFC Chester M. Miller
1982TFC Terry W. Custer
1981TFC William M. Glime
1980TFC Albert L. Liebno
1979TFC Harry J. Spicer
1978TFC Theodore D. Wolf
1977TFC Gerald P. Taylor
1976TFC William E. Vogel
1975TFC Robert A. Ventura
1974TFC James F. Mayo
1973TFC David W. Michael
1972TFC George H. Davis
1971TFC John W. Reburn
1970TFC Robert E. Middleton
1969TFC John W. Shelly
1969TFC John O. Himmelman
1969TFC Emerson M. Hoopes
1968TFC Patrick J. Bucher
1967No Award
1966TFC Bernard Chabot
1965TFC Alan G. Coonradt
1964TFC Harold Phillips
1963TFC Samuel O. Tharpe
1962TFC Top E. Barnes
1961TFC Robert J. Weisenmiller

Last Modified: 20260611-1825