The Arkansas REALTORS® Association’s Distinguished Service Award is not given every year and is given under strict criteria. It is given under the premise that the award seeks the person.
Among these requirements are that the recipient may not have served as President of the Arkansas REALTORS® Association or been named REALTOR®-of-the-Year. The recipient must have attained the age of 60 or have at least 25 years of service in the ARA and local Board leadership and that the recipient has been recognized as an extraordinary leader.
The following is a list of previous Distinguished Service Award winners since the Awards inception in the year 2000.
- Year 2000
- Warren Theis, Hot Springs
- Ernest Westfall, Fort Smith
- Jeannie Williams, North Little Rock
- Year 2001
- J. C. Dyer, Nashville
- James R. Ford, Russellville
- Year 2002
- Lucille Pate, North Little Rock
- Year 2003
- Letain DeVore, Searcy
- Year 2005
- Greg Buchanan, El Dorado
- Marcelline Giroir, Little Rock
- Tim Grooms, Attorney at Law, Little Rock (Special Friend)
- Year 2006
- Larry Lau, Fort Smith
- Year 2010
- Bill Ladd*, Russellville
- Year 2013
- Deanna Dial, Rogers
- Year 2015
- Ken Gill, Little Rock
- Burt Henderson, Morrilton
- Year 2016
- Chuck Fawcett, Fort Smith
- Year 2018
- Sarah Sealy, Texarkana
- Wally Loveless, Little Rock