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Past Education Hall of Fame Inductees

2024 Inductees

  • Dianne Lafferty - Community Outreach
  • Patricia Davison - Early Childhood Education
  • Heath Israel – Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12 (JK-12) Education
  • David Murphy - Leadership in Education
  • Denise McDonald – Minister’s Choice

2023 Inductees

  • Charlene Liske - Community Outreach
  • Lima Baroryee - Early Childhood Education (nominated posthumously)
  • Alan Karasiuk – Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12 (JK-12) Education
  • Colleen Eckert - Leadership in Education
  • Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning – Post-Secondary Education and Minister’s Choice

2022 Inductees 

  • Adrien Amirault, Yellowknife – Minister’s Choice Award
  • Deborah Reid, Hay River
  • Josée Clermont, Yellowknife
  • Eugène Roach, Yellowknife

2021 Inductees

  • Frank Galway, Inuvik – Minister’s Choice Award
  • Pauline Tardiff (Gordon), Aklavik/Fort Smith
  • Ed Lippert, Yellowknife
  • Neil Penney, Dettah

2020 Inductees

  • Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Education Hall of Fame nomination period and induction ceremony was cancelled.

2019 Inductees

  • Sheila Cook, Hay River
  • Eileen Erasmus, Yellowknife
  • Michelle Brown, Fort Smith
  • Brenda Johnson, Yellowknife
  • Gayle Strikes With A Gun, Yellowknife
  • Claudia Parker, Yellowknife
  • Steve Nicoll, Fort Simpson
  • Sheila Kindred, Fort Smith

2018 Inductees

  • Bella Kay, Inuvik
  • Chris Gilmour, Inuvik
  • Brian Jaffray, Fort Simpson
  • Lois Lafferty, Fort Smith
  • Jean-Marie Mariez, Yellowknife
  • Gerard Landry, Yellowknife
  • Rosa Mantla, Behchokǫ̀

2017 Inductees

  • Allan McDonald
  • Annie Felix
  • Chuck Lirette
  • Dave Roebuck
  • Denise Bowen
  • Merril Dean
  • Shane Brewster
  • Teresa Jaffray

2016 Inductees 

  • Sarah Jerome, Beaufort Delta 
  • Valerie Gendron, Dehcho 
  • Vivian Pellissey, Sahtu 
  • Jane Dragon, South Slave
  • Jim Martin, Tłįchǫ
  • Rita Mueller, North Slave 
  • Muriel Tolley - Minister’s Choice Award

2015 Inductees

  • Lea Lamoureux - Attendance initiatives in schools
  • Ted Blondin - Student learning by an Elder
  • Doris Camsell - Traditional learning, language and culture in schools
  • Dean MacInnis - Safe and caring environments for students
  • Reanna Erasmus - Early childhood program support and inclusive education
  • Bruce Green - Innovative approaches to teaching and learning
  • Marja Van Nieuwenhuyzen - Excellence in teaching and supporting numeracy
  • Carole Bachand - Excellence in teaching and supporting literacy
  • Michel Louis Rabesca - Minister’s Choice Award

2014 Inductees

  • Lorna Storr, Beaufort Delta 
  • Martina Norwegian, Dehcho 
  • Liz Baile, North Slave 
  • Celine Marlowe, South Slave 
  • George Cleary, Sahtu 
  • Valerie Nevile Carter - Minister's Choice Award

2013 Inductees

  • Andy Norwegian, Dehcho 
  • Beverly Masuzumi, Sahtu
  • Bill Gilday, North Slave
  • Janie Jones, Beaufort Delta
  • Jill Taylor, South Slave
  • Mary Adele Flunkie, Tłįchǫ
  • Anne-Mieke Cameron - Minister's Choice Award

2012 Inductees

  • Betty Barnaby, Sahtu
  • Chris Baron, Tłįchǫ
  • Angela James, North Slave
  • Helen Kitekudlak, Beaufort Delta
  • Kevin Antoniak, South Slave
  • Margaret Thom, Dehcho
  • Dr. Curtis Brown - Minister's Choice Award

2011 Inductees

  • Dorothy Beaulieu, South Slave
  • Ed Jeske, North Slave
  • Ethel Blondin-Andrew, Sahtu
  • Joanne Tetlichi, Beaufort Delta
  • Lucy Lafferty, Tłįchǫ
  • Margaret Field, Dehcho
  • Garth Brasseur - Minister's Choice Award

2010 Inductees

  • Elizabeth Mackenzie, Behchoko
  • John Miltenberger, Fort Smith
  • Jerry Ruben, Fort Smith
  • Michael Botermans, Behchoko
  • Toni Harker Auge, Yellowknife
  • Miki O'Kane, Inuvik
  • Chuck Tolley, Yellowknife
  • Irma Miron, Hay River
  • Sylvia Boyer, Hay River
  • Brent Kaulback, Fort Smith
  • Alice Cambridge, Hay River
  • Anne Enge, Yellowknife
  • Cliff King, Inuvik
  • John Carroll, Hay River
  • Margo McLeod, Aklavik