CARDA Lifetime Achievement Award:
This annual award also recognizes a member or members who exemplify what it means to be an outstanding CARDA member and who has also made significant contributions to CARDA’s success over an extended period of time (typically longer than 20 years).
Kathy has been a member of CARDA since 2009, certifying dogs in a variety of disciplines including trailing and human remains detection. She has been on over 165 deployments including 2018 Camp Fire. In addition to being an HRD and trailing evaluator, Kathy is the VP Admin Chair, overseeing approval of all tests and other certifications that go to our records. We wouldn’t function as an organization without her incredible contributions.
Thank you, Kathy – we are so grateful for all you do.
CARDA Board of Directors
SAR Experience
2009 – Present 165 Search deployments
2009 – Present El Dorado Search and Rescue
• 2009: EDSAR Academy
• 2009 – 2013: Ground Team Searcher
• 2010 – 2012: Technical Ropes
• 2013 – Present: Canine Team Handler
• 2012: Assistant Canine Training Officer
• 2013, 2020: Canine Training Officer
• 2014 – 2019, 2022, 2023: Canine Team Lead
2009 – Present California Rescue Dog Association
• 2013 – 2022: Mission Ready in Trailing
• 2015 – Present CARDA Type 1 Trailing Evaluator
• 2017 – Present: Mission Ready in HRD
• 2018 – Present CARDA HRD Evaluator (have administered 24 HRD tests)
• 2016 – Present: CARDA VP Admin
2019 – Present: CARDA VP Admin, Chair
Job entails overseeing approval of all tests and all that goes through vpadmin