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April 22, 2004
Little Rock --
The Arkansas Department of Health is proud to announce that Shirley Ezelle, Leader of the Laboratory Service Unit, will receive the Kurt M. Dubowski Award by the International Association for Chemical Testing on April 28, 2004. The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the area of chemical testing in relation to workplace or transportation safety.
Persons nominated must, through a minimum of twenty years of active service in the field of alcohol/drugs and workplace or transportation safety, have contributed to that field to a degree that their achievements have been recognized nationally or internationally. A minimum of ten years of active and productive involvement as a member of the International Association for Chemical Testing must be shown. Career contributions will have been in one of the following areas: (1) alcohol/drug education; (2) legal matters, including prosecution, defense, adjudication, or research of alcohol/drug -related cases; (3) human factors -the involvement in scientific research and studies of alcohol/drugs and the medical/physiological/psychological aspects of alcohol/drugs and workplace or transportation safety; (4) technology-toxicological procedures involving alcohol/drugs and development and evaluation of techniques; and (5) action programs -- law enforcement, legislation, public information, intervention efforts, and other factors related to alcohol/drugs and workplace or transportation safety.
Ezelle is a native of southeast Arkansas, growing up in Dumas, AR. She attended college at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1970, with a major in chemistry and minor in biology. She attended graduate school at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Before coming to the ADH in 1976 she taught high school sciences for six years and worked as an analyst at the Pine Bluff Arsenal. She began her career with the Health Department in 1976 as a chemist with the Office
of Alcohol Testing after qualifying through merit examination. She later supervised the lab and was promoted to the director’s position in 1997. She has been a certified Law Enforcement Training Instructor since 1976 and has also been involved in research and evaluation of methodology, instrumentation and physiology. She has served on the Executive boards of the National Safety Council’s Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs and the International Association for Chemical Testing. In IACT she has served in every office. She has presented papers at Conferences, testified as an expert witness in alcohol testing, toxicology, and related fields on numerous occasions before municipal, circuit, and federal courts and the Arkansas Legislature, presented at numerous legal seminars and serves as a faculty member for the Administrative Office of the Courts.
Ezelle has been a dedicated and productive member of the National Safety Council’s Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs for many years and in February of this year was elected Committee Chair, the second woman to ever serve as Chair.
Ezelle has earned the respect of all those she has dealt with during her career. She is known for her integrity and excellence throughout Arkansas state government as well as the legal and law enforcement communities. In 2001 she accepted the role of Leader of the Laboratory Services Unit, which is composed of all Public Health Laboratories and the Office of Alcohol Testing. Her objective service to all the citizens of Arkansas has been exemplary. In February 2004 she was presented the MADD Blue Knight Community Service Award by Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and State Police Director Don Melton.
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