2016 inductees

For more than four decades, Dr. Marie Annette Brown has been a true leader in the nursing profession and the Nurse Practitioner movement. She is an educator, a clinical practitioner, a researcher, an author, an advisor, a mentor, and a speaker.

Dr. Renee Hoeksel has spent her nursing career as an inspiring nurse educator and relentless advocate for patients. Her contributions to nursing in the fields of geriatrics, evidence-based practice, and education are hallmarks of her long career.

Bonnie Sandahl Todd is a pioneering pediatric nurse practitioner whose extensive career spans impactful service in clinical care, advocacy, and leadership roles, significantly shaping healthcare policies and practices, particularly for children with special needs and disabilities, in the state of Washington and nationally.