The Michigan Municipal Executives has many awards open for nominations to recognize the creativity and dedication of MME members.
Award nomination forms, along with a description of the nomination process, are available on the Awards page of the MME website. Nominations must be received by 5:00 pm on Monday, Nov. 22.
This year, we will be honoring members with the following awards: 
- Innovation Award recognizes MME professionals who have developed innovative solutions to providing services to their community.
- Community Leadership Award recognizes MME professionals who have helped guide their community through a significant event that resulted in a favorable outcome.
- Mentoring Award recognizes the MME professional who has made significant contributions in the development of new talent and/or who has designed and implemented outstanding career development programs for local government employees.
- New Executive Achievement Award recognizes new municipal executives to the profession—anyone with 1-5 years of experience—how they came into the profession, challenges they successfully faced, and recent career accomplishments.
- Executive of the Year Award recognizes the MME professional who has made significant contributions to the field of local government management over the past 12 months
- Outstanding Assistant Award recognizes the deputy or assistant manager or administrator who has demonstrated outstanding performance, particularly with a special project or during a period of unique conditions and circumstances.
- DEI Leadership Award recognizes MME professionals that have led, implemented, and supported diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in their organizations and communities that have improved the lives and experience of people across the range of human differences, i.e. race, gender, age, sexual preference, nationality, ethnicity, etc.
- John M. Patriarche Distinguished Service Award is the highest honor the association bestows. It honors members of the Michigan Municipal Executives association who have been members of the association for a significant number of years. Those honored have worked consistently and effectively to foster representative democracy by enhancing the effectiveness of local elected officials through innovative programs, projects, and by consistency in providing excellence in character and professionalism. A nominee must have been a member of the MME or its predecessors for a significant number of years.
For additional questions, please contact Joseph Bippus at joe@threeriversmi.org.
We look forward to receiving your nominations.