2022 Outstanding Examiner of the Year

Barbara Hord

Motor Vehicle Customer Service Representative III

Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles

Barbara Hord has been with the Alaska Division of Motor vehicles for over 20 years. She began her career working as an administrative assistant for the Directors Office, then spent many years as a road examiner and eventually moved up to the Commercial Compliance department. Her love for CDL road examinations inspired her to be the compliance expert she is today. She has spent countless hours researching commercial federal regulations to ensure the Alaska third party testers are compliant. Barbara has conducted CDL examiner training, where she has prepared examiners for success in administering CDL skills road tests. There are times where we have needed her to drop all that she is doing to travel, and she does so with no hesitation. The care she has for ensuring commercial driver’s licenses are issued correctly is exponential. In addition, she does daily audits of CDL issuance, she is in constant communication with our third-party testers and assists them with examination questions, reviewing the routes provided, and is always available to help enter test scores into CSTIMS. As our division expert, Barbara has provided trainings to help everyone understand entry level driver training (ELDT) and CSTIMS, patiently training all new employees and keeping a daily eye out for errors so she can work one on one with staff for correction. She also onboards any new third-party testers who register with the state and she conducts examiner audits overtly and covertly across the state. She identifies fraudulent testing when she sees it and follows through to ensure appropriate action is taken so there are no lapses in integrity for Alaska’s CDL program. As an example of her dedication to CDL skills testing, during and for a limited time after the Covid-19 pandemic, she was the sole examiner for the entire state of Alaska. She conducted a minimum of 70 CDL road skills tests in various communities within the state traveling to the most remote areas of the state to ensure that all Alaskans received their skills test.

2022 Examiners of the Year

Past Outstanding Examiners of the Year

2021: Jason Hennessy, Iowa
2020: Patricia Nelson, Wisconsin
2019: John Mathieu, Florida
2018: Earl Bunnell, New Hampshire
2017: Chasity Perry, Kentucky
2016: Janet Hood, Wyoming
2015: Curtis Berryhill, Florida
2014: Renee Devine (awarded posthumously), Iowa
2013: Deborah Gilley, Kentucky