And the winners are:
- Chef of the Year P. Richard Brumm (photo below), CEC, executive sous chef, La Gorce Country Club, Miami Beach, Fla.
- Pastry Chef of the Year Heather Hurlbert (photo below), executive pastry chef, Cherokee Town & Country Club, Atlanta
- Chef Educator of the Year David Weir (photo below), CEC, CCE, associate professor at Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, Fla.
- Hermann G. Rusch Chef's Achievement Award Wolfgang Bierer (photo below), CMPC, CEC, CCE, AAC, retired, Hilton Head Island, S.C.
- Chef Professionalism Award Edmund Chinners (photo below), CEC, CCA, operations manager, Sodexo, Columbia, S.C.
- Student Chef of the Year Andrew Addleman II (photo below), sous chef, Chowders Seafood/River Rocks, Rockledge, Fla.
- Baron H. Galand Culinary Knowledge Bowl ACF Greater Miami Chapter Epicurean Club, Johnson & Wales University-Miami, North Miami, Fla.: Alissa Ebel; Catherine Gonzalez, CC; Victoria Gonzalez; Rebecca Lerman; and Marisa Roussell. The team is coached by Alan Lazar, CCE
- Student Team Regional Championship ACF Western North Carolina Culinary Association; Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, Asheville, N.C.: Michael Aanonsen, Shannon Ginn, Steven Goff, Anna McClintock and Travis McCloud. The team was coached by Charles deVries, CEPC
- Joseph Amendola Outstanding Member Award Geoffrey Blount, CEPC, executive pastry chef, Bakery Bistro Initiative at Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, N.C.
- Chapter of the Year ACF Midlands Chapter, Columbia, S.C.
- Chapter Achievement Award ACF Midlands Chapter; ACF Middle Tennessee Chapter, Nashville Tenn.; ACF Tampa Bay Culinary Association, Tampa, Fla.
- ACF President's Medallions Edmund Chinners; Winslow Goodier, CEC, ACC, executive chef, Hermitage Technical Center, Richmond, Va.; John Kacala, CEC, AAC, executive chef/culinary consultant, Sysco Foodservice, Columbia, S.C.; Audrey Lennon, posthumously, president/executive chef, The Sauceress Inc., Orlando, Fla.; Herman Packer, CEC, CCE, AAC, executive chef-instructur, Bishop State Community College, Mobile, Ala.; J. Kevin Walker, CMC, AAC, executive chef, Cherokee Town & Country Club, Atlanta
- American Academy of Chefs Chair's Scholarship Russ Thayer, pastry chef, River Hills Country Club, Lake Wylie, S.C., and student, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, N.C.
