Congratulations to our own Jean Dieden, DVM! AKC Lifetime Achievement Award Nominee, she has won in the Performance Event Category. Details below:
AKC ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF THE 2013 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
New York, NY — The American Kennel Club® (AKC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 AKC® Lifetime Achievement Awards: Patricia Craige Trotter (Conformation), Sharon Redmer (Companion Events) and Jean Dieden, DVM (Performance). The three recipients will receive engraved Revere bowls on Friday, December 14, 2012 at the AKC Delegates luncheon held in conjunction with the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship in Orlando, Florida. A sterling silver Tiffany and Co. bowl, engraved with the names of all recipients past and present, is on permanent display at AKC headquarters in New York City.
Performance: Jean Dieden, DVM of Clinton, Washington Jean has been involved in AKC Performance events with her Hathor Farm Wirehaired Dachshunds since 1992. They have earned 12 Field Championships (11 of them Dual) and over 50 “Absolute Winner” awards, including three national specialty trial wins. She has been competing at dog shows, obedience trials and tracking tests for forty years.
She has had three dogs ranked in the DCA annual “Top 20” awards and one (TC M’I Spy of Hathor Farm SW VCD1 RN OA AXJ NAP OJP OF JE) with over 1000 points is among the top 10 lifetime point earners.
Jean has served on the DCA’s Trial Advisory Committee/Performance Events Committee for ten years, the last seven serving as chairman. This committee has been responsible for several successful AKC rule and procedural change proposals also adopted by the other hound events.
Dr. Dieden started in AKC Earthdog at its inception. Her dogs have earned over 300 qualifying scores, including 160 Master tests. She has held over eighty tests at her home, Hathor Farm on Whidbey Island. A founding officer of the Puget Sound Earthdog Club and longtime president of the Cascade Dachshund Club she is credited for gaining CDC’s licensing status for Dachshund Field Trials and Earthdog Tests.
Dr. Dieden has enjoyed being a field trial judge for 12 years and an Earthdog judge for 16 years, enjoying judging throughout the country, including eleven classes at DCA national events.
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