IBR STAFF//September 26, 2025//
Annual IBR honors celebrate leaders and excellence in industries of law and finance
Retired Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Jim Jones gives a speech following his acceptance of the Lifetime Achievement Award at Idaho Business Review’s Leaders in Law and Excellence in Finance awards ceremony on Nov. 21, 2024. (FILE PHOTO: PRO IMAGE EVENT PHOTOGRAPHY)
IBR STAFF//September 26, 2025//
As the weather gets cooler, that can only mean one thing: Idaho Business Review is announcing its list of honorees for Excellence in Finance and Leaders in Law.
Though the awards event isn’t until mid-November, the publication reveals the recipients in September each year.
The 2025 winners of the Excellence in Finance and Leaders in Law awards have been chosen, celebrating careers that show outstanding performance in leadership, mentorship, community service and other areas.
Once again, Excellence in Finance covers banking, corporate investment, education and professional sectors, and Leaders in Law covers associates, educators, in-house counsel, partners, sole practitioners, unsung heroes and up-and-coming individuals in the legal field. A committee carefully considers all candidates who are nominated, and one honoree earned a lifetime achievement award.
For the first time since it began, Excellence in Finance will also honor a recipient with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Leaders in Law has done that for several years now.
17 individuals have been selected as 2025 Excellence in Finance recipients and 22 have been selected as Leaders in Law. Awardees hail from all over Idaho and are selected based on their successes and raising standards for their companies and the state.
An awards ceremony celebrating the winners from both Leaders in Law and Excellence in Finance will be held on Nov. 13 at 4:30 p.m. at Boise Centre East, allowing professionals from each industry a chance to network during a reception.
Click here for tickets.
Special publications highlighting the honorees will be included with the Nov. 21 issue of Idaho Business Review. Attendees of the award ceremony on Nov. 13 will receive advanced copies of the publications.
2025 Excellence in Finance Honorees
- Iris Anderson, Idaho National Laboratory
- Ryan Carlson, Hawkins
- Danica Davis, Presnell Gage, PLLC
- Paulette Hudson, Capital Matrix, Inc.
- Helen Johnson, Zions Bank
- David Klungle, Boise State University Department of Finance
- Tyler Kraupp, Good Co Mortgage
- Todd Lovell, Raymond James
- Summer McCracken, Columbia Bank
- MacArthur Minor, WestLink Ag Group
- Alan Mullins, Bank of Idaho a Division of Glacier Bank (Mountain West Bank)
- Marlene Myers, US Bank
- Tawnya Nyman, B.A. Harris LLC
- Jared Robinson, Good Co Mortgage
- Don Rognon, ICCU
- Danielle Ruhl (Soto), Jackson Jet Center
- Nathan Weinstein, Idaho Botanical Garden
Lifetime Achievement
Joel Hickman, Idaho Trust Bank
2025 Leaders in Law Honorees
Associate
- Kenny Shumard, Hawley Troxell
Educator
- Jessica Gunder, University of Idaho
- Leon Samuels, University of Idaho
- Christopher Yorgason, Yorgason Law Office
In-House Counsel
- Kimberly Evans-Ross, Idaho National Laboratory
- Rob Dickson, Hawkins
- Brett Hamm, Adler Industrial
- Robert Squire, D.L. Evans Bank
Partner
- Sean Beck, Advanced Legal Planning
- Penelope Gaffney, Gravis Law
- Philip Maier, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP
- Grant Patton, Patton & Buller
- Ben Ritchie, Hawley Troxell
- Norman Semanko, Parson Behle & Latimer Boise
Sole Practitioner
- Mary K Denton, Business Legal Consulting, PLLC
- Nicole Derden, Law Office of Nicole Derden
- Belén Meyers, Belén Meyers Law
- Rachel Murphy, Shaila Buckley Law
Unsung Heroes
- Katie Gerhard, Smith Horras, P.A.
- Kaylee Hill, Malek + Malek, PLLC
Up & Coming
- Cory Carone, Stoel Rives, LLP
- Michelle Williams, Hawley Troxell
Lifetime Achievement
Cathy Silak, Hawley Troxell
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