Category: Lifetime Achievement Award
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2025 Honoree – Johnny Stevens
For more than half a century, Johnny Stevens has specialized in developing vacant land and acquiring vacant or underutilized industrial properties to restore, update, subdivide, lease and operate. Over his career, he has developed or redeveloped about 7 million square feet of warehouse and industrial space throughout the U.S. and currently owns and operates in…
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2024 Honoree – Craig Burns
Craig Burns – 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
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2023 Honoree – Max Cole
Max Cole is the 2023 recipient of the Kansas CCIM Chapter and WSU Center for Real Estate Lifetime Achievement Award. Max is a Wichita native celebrated for his unconventional approach to real estate. A trailblazer since the late 1960’s, Max’s strategic foresight led him to profit from land condemned for highway expansion, funding ventures like…
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2022 Honorees – Willard Garvey and the Garvey Family
2022 – Willard Garvey
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2021 Honoree – Dr. Stan Longhofer
Stanley D. Longhofer – 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
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2019 Honoree – Paul Jackson
Paul Jackson – 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
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2018 Honoree – Steven J. Martens
2018 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient – Steven J. Martens
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2017 Honoree – George Laham
George Laham is the recipient of the 2017 WSU Center for Real Estate and Kansas CCIM Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award. After graduating from the University of Kansas in 1986, George Laham came back to Wichita and started his real estate career in the commercial division of JP Weigand and Sons. George was involved in retail…
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2016 Honoree – Phil Ruffin
Phil Ruffin is the recipient of the 2016 WSU Center for Real Estate and Kansas CCIM Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award. Born in Texas and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Ruffin accepted his first job during his high school years as an unpaid employee working for his father at Spur Market, a Wichita grocery store. Ruffin eventually quit…
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2015 Honoree – Darrell Leason
Darrell Leason is the recipient of the 2015 WSU Center for Real Estate and Kansas CCIM Chapter Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Leason’s real estate career began in 1958 when he began working as a commercial salesperson for Colby Sandlian, a friend from high school and fellow Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient. Mr. Leason worked for Sandlian…