Doug Edmonds was born on February 19, 1940, and passed away on Thursday, September 12, 2019. A 33-year APCO member from the Illinois Chapter, he made significant contributions to the rollout of the National Joint TERT Initiative (NJTI-TERT) through his committee service from 2005 to 2009, and as a co-chair in 2008-2009.

In 2009, he received APCO’s Presidential award along with NJTI-TERT co-chair Brent Lee for their “tireless work furthering telecommunicator emergency response and deployment across the nation.”