The Lumber Person of the Year award is one of the highest honors given by one’s peers in the lumber and building material industry. It is awarded annually by Lumber Dealers of Connecticut.

2017	Ray Bergeron	Eastford Building Supply, Eastford, CT
2016	Evan MacDermott	Coastal Forest Products, Bedford, NH
2015	Tom Bartram	Ed Herrington, Inc., Lakeville, CT
2014	Larry Laureno	Sanford & Hawley, Inc. Unionville,CT
2013	Robert A. Kelly	Torno Lumber Westport, CT
2012	Edward Bushka	American Millwork & Lumber
2011	Sheldon Kahn	Interstate + Lakeland Lumber Greenwich,CT
2010	Richard Slevinsky	Miner’s Inc., Canton, CT
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 1985	JOSEPH C. YURSIK ROBERT SANFORD AILEEN O’HARA ADRIAN BAKER SCOTT CHACE DAVID CAMPBELL GREGORY BRANECKY DAVID MINER MIKE LAURENO JIM LYKE LOUIS H. PRICE JAMES SHANBROM FRED INDERMAUR J. PETER TRIPP CHARLES HEYMAN MIKE TURNURE ANDREW W. PERRY, II GREGORY SEELEY CHARLES R. HALE, JR. JOHN A. HOPKINS HARRY H. TAYLOR, JR. VERNE R. SPEAR GORDON T. SCHIELKE AL A. GINN, JR. JOHN CARUSO, SR.	Ridgefield Supply Co., Ridgefeild, CT Sanford & Hawley, Inc. Unionville,CT Northeast Builders Supply, Cornwall Bridge, CT Brockway-Smith Co., Canterbury, CT Chace Building Supply, Inc., Woodstock, CT Ring’s End, Inc., Darien, CT The Hatch & Bailey Co., Stamford, CT Miner’s Inc., Canton, CT Stevenson Lumber & Millwork, Inc., Suffield, CT Cleary Millwork, Rocky Hill, CT Ridgefield Supply Co., Ridgefield, CT West Haven Lumber Co., Inc., West Haven, CT Retired Regional Director NRLA, Tolland, CT The A.D. Tripp Co., Jewett City, CT Washington Supply Co., Inc., Washington Depot, CT Community Lumber & Hardware, Lakeville, CT Stonington Lumber Co., Inc., Stonington, CT E. Rabinowe & Company, Newington, CT The Tuxis Lumber Co., Madison, CT Eastford Building Supply, Inc., Eastford, CT H. H. Taylor & Son, Inc., New Milford, CT Spear Lumber Co., West Suffield, CT Southbury Building Supplies, Inc., Southbury, CT Cashway, Inc., Newington, CT Branford Building Supplies, Inc., Branford, CT