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
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.
*Denotes Troopers that were also selected for the Department’s Trooper of the Year.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 2025 | TFC Mark Mowbray |
| 2024 | TFC Jack Hadley |
| 2023 | Tpr Ethan Sigman |
| 2022 | S/Tpr Kelly Jaskiewicz |
| 2021 | TFC Gabriella Gagliardi |
| 2020 | TFC Evan Ruggles |
| 2019 | S/Tpr Christopher R. Toey |
| 2018 | TFC Charles M. Tittle |
| 2017 | TFC John B. Wildman |
| 2016 | Tpr Charles M. Tittle |
| 2015 | TFC Randolph S. Marshall |
| 2014 | M/Tpr Frank Fornoff |
| 2013 | S/Tpr Merlin Myers |
| 2012 | TFC Christopher R. Toey |
| 2011 | TFC Ryan A. McNeely |
| 2010 | TFC Robert G. Iman |
| 2009 | TFC Jerry S. Warner |
| 2008 | TFC Anthony D. Dudek |
| 2007 | TFC Jason L. Stevens |
| 2006 | TFC Daniel S. Everett |
| 2005 | TFC Colin R. Sweitzer |
| 2004 | TFC Christopher M. Conner |
| 2003 | TFC Richard E. Carroll III |
| 2002 | TFC Kevin M. Moriarity |
| 2001 | * TFC Robert J. Stryjewski Jr. |
| 2000 | TFC Richard T. Bachtel |
| 1999 | TFC J.B. Robinson |
| 1998 | TFC Thomas Lubinski |
| 1997 | TFC Christopher Hannon |
| 1996 | TFC Ronald Coccodrilli |
| 1995 | * TFC Ronald W. Cullison Jr. |
| 1994 | TFC Ronald Yaniga |
| 1993 | TFC Richard J. Schelfe |
| 1992 | TFC Michael D. Kretzer |
| 1991 | TFC Robert V. Calo |
| 1990 | TFC Carl D. Miller |
| 1989 | TFC Steven L. McCarty |
| 1988 | TFC James S. Emerick |
| 1987 | TFC David C. Reichenbaugh |
| 1986 | TFC William E. Smith |
| 1985 | TFC Homer R. Rich |
| 1984 | TFC Wendell R. Cover |
| 1983 | TFC Chester M. Miller |
| 1982 | TFC Terry W. Custer |
| 1981 | TFC William M. Glime |
| 1980 | TFC Albert L. Liebno |
| 1979 | TFC Harry J. Spicer |
| 1978 | TFC Theodore D. Wolf |
| 1977 | TFC Gerald P. Taylor |
| 1976 | TFC William E. Vogel |
| 1975 | TFC Robert A. Ventura |
| 1974 | TFC James F. Mayo |
| 1973 | TFC David W. Michael |
| 1972 | TFC George H. Davis |
| 1971 | TFC John W. Reburn |
| 1970 | TFC Robert E. Middleton |
| 1969 | TFC John W. Shelly |
| 1969 | TFC John O. Himmelman |
| 1969 | TFC Emerson M. Hoopes |
| 1968 | TFC Patrick J. Bucher |
| 1967 | No Award |
| 1966 | TFC Bernard Chabot |
| 1965 | TFC Alan G. Coonradt |
| 1964 | TFC Harold Phillips |
| 1963 | TFC Samuel O. Tharpe |
| 1962 | TFC Top E. Barnes |
| 1961 | TFC Robert J. Weisenmiller |
Last Modified: 20260611-1825