Slideshow: 2015 Gold and Silver Shovel Award Recipients

Slideshow2015 Gold & Silver Shovel Award Recipients

Figure 1: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley poses with the Gold Shovel award.
Figure 2: Tennessee’s Gold Shovel award is raised by Governor Bill Haslam.
Figure 3: Empire State Development Commissioner Howard Zemsky holds New York’s Silver Shovel award.
Figure 4: Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (left) and Interim Kansas Commerce Secretary Michael Copeland pose with the state’s Silver Shovel award.
Figure 5: Kentucky’s Governor Steve Beshear puts his state’s Silver Shovel award to good use.
Figure 6: Georgia Governor Nathan Deal holds the state’s Gold Shovel award.
Figure 7: Jonas Peterson,CEO of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance;Governor Brian Sandoval; GOED Director Steve Hill; and Assemblywoman Irene Bustamante-Adams shown with Nevada’s first-ever Gold Shovel award.
Figure 8: Wisconsin’s Silver Shovel award is held by Governor Scott Walker.
Figure 9: Bobby Jindal,Governor of Louisiana,displays the state’s Silver Shovel.
Figure 10: Utah Governor Gary Herbert with the Silver Shovel award his state received this year.
Figure 11: Phil Bryant,Governor of Mississippi, holds his state’s Silver Shovel award.