15th Annual AKC/Eukanuba National Championship 2015 Judging Panel

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332 – February, 2015

 

The 2015 event will showcase the top national and international dogs and will also include popular attractions such as the Best Bred-by-Exhibitor competition, Best Veteran in Show, the AKC National Owner-Handled Series Finals and AKC Meet the Breeds®. The show will once again take place alongside the AKC Agility Invitational, AKC Obedience Classic, and junior events in each sport.

 

The Brevard Kennel Club, the Central Florida Kennel Club and the Space Coast Kennel Club of Palm Bay shows will precede the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship at the same site on Dec. 8-10, 2015 and a day of specialty and group shows will be held Dec. 11, 2015.

 

 

Best In show

 

Heading the panel as Best in Show judge for the 2015 AKC/Eukanuba National Championship is Mr. Robert Stein of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Mr. Edd E. Bivin of Ft. Worth, Texas will judge Best Bred-by-Exhibitor in Show.

Mr. Robert Stein, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, became interested in showing in 1955, when he acquired his first Afghan Hound. A year later, after he acquired his foundation bitch, he founded his Charaj Kennels. Mr. Stein has had an excellent breeding and showing career, marked with many champions, and specialty and group winners, as well as having the top-producing Afghan Hound bitch in the country in 1970. In addition to Afghans, Mr. Stein owned and bred Salukis and has owned Chinese Cresteds and Affenpinschers.

Mr. Stein judges all breeds. He began judging in 1965 (in his mid-20s), and 2015 marks 50 years of judging. Assignments have brought Mr. Stein to almost every state in the Union, and to Canada, Mexico, Israel, Japan, Finland, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand, and many other countries. Career highlights include the Hound and Working groups at Westminster, Hound and Working groups at the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship show, as well as breed judging several times at Westminster and at AKC/Eukanuba. He has judged the Afghan Hound Club of America National Specialty four times, The Saluki Club of America National Specialty, and the World Dog Show.

Mr. Stein is an honorary member of the Dayton Kennel Club, and is a member of the Cary Kennel Club and the Saluki Club of America.

He has been president, show chairman, and treasurer of the Afghan Hound Club of Southwestern Ohio; has served Dayton Kennel Club as president, show chairman, and AKC Delegate; and has served on the board of directors of the Afghan Hound Club of America and is now a Lifetime Member.

Mr. Stein is a retired architect and real estate developer, and an emeritus member of the American Institute of Architects. He resides in North Carolina with his wife Helen, Tiki Sue (Affenpinscher), and two champion Afghan Hounds.

Mr. Edd E. Bivin, of Fort Worth, Texas, acquired his first purebred dog at age 12. This Pomeranian bitch introduced him to the sport of dogs and became the foundation of a breeding program that led to breeding and exhibiting top-winning Pomeranians.

From this base Mr. Bivin was to first judge toy dogs at match shows at age 15. He was approved to judge Pomeranians at U.S. championship point shows in 1961. Mr. Bivin is presently approved to judge all sporting breeds, all working breeds, all terrier breeds, all toy breeds, all non-sporting breeds and several herding and hound breeds. He and his wife, Irene, enjoyed breeding and exhibiting of Doberman Pinschers and Dachshunds during her lifetime.

“It has been my privilege to judge many all-breed and specialty shows in the United States and abroad,” Mr. Bivin says, “among those being many of the internationally famous ones, including Best in Show at Westminster, 1999. A great joy has been the judging of many national specialty shows of various breeds in the groups for which I am approved.”

­­­Mr. Bivin judged Best in Show at the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship in 2013, and the Sporting Group at last year’s event.

 

Group Judges

• SPORTING – Mr. Elliott B. Weiss – Middletown, DE

• HOUND – Mr. Eugene Blake – Tulsa, OK

• WORKING – Mr. William P. Shelton – Pomona, CA

• TERRIER – Mr. Bruce R. Schwartz – Los Angeles, CA

• TOY – Mr. Chuck Winslow – Monrovia, MD

• NON-SPORTING – Mrs. Peggy J. Hauck – Oviedo, FL

• HERDING – Mr. Thomas W. Coen – Great Barrington, MA

• Best Miscellaneous & Misc. Classes –

Mr. Desmond J. Murphy – Monroe, NY

 

 

­­BBE Group Judges

• SPORTING – Mr. Thomas Bradley, III – Watertown, NY

• HOUND – Ms. Mary Dukes – Marshville, NC

• WORKING – Mrs. Nancy C. Russell – Walsenburg, CO

• TERRIER – Dr. Jerry Klein – Chicago, IL

• TOY – Mrs. Charlotte P. Patterson – Destin, FL

• NON-SPORTING – Mr. Johnny R. Shoemaker – Las Vegas, NV

• HERDING – Mr. James J. Mitchell – Wilmington, DE

• BEST JUNIOR – Ms. Mari-Beth O’Neill – Carey, NC

 

 

 

Breed Assignments

 

• SPORTING GROUP:

 

BREED ASSIGNMENTS:

Dr. Dana Ann Smith Massey – Spaniels (Boykin), Pointers, Retrievers (Nova Scotia Duck Tolling), Retrievers (Chesapeake), Retrievers (Curly-Coated), Retrievers (Flat-Coated)

Mrs. Joan V. Savage – Brittanys, Pointers (German Shorthaired), Pointers (German Wirehaired), Setters (English),

Setters (Gordon), Wirehaired Pointing Griffons

Ms. Pluis Davern – Retrievers (Golden), Weimaraners

Mr. Mr. Carl Gene Liepmann – Lagotti Romagnoli,

Retrievers (Labrador)

Mrs. Anne Savory Bolus – Setters (Irish),

Setters (Irish Red and White), Spaniels (Sussex)

Mr. David W. Flanagan – Spaniels (American Water), Spaniels (Cocker – ASCOB), Spaniels (Clumber),

Spaniels (Cocker – Black), Spaniels (Cocker – Parti Color), Spaniels (English Cocker), Spaniels (Field),

Spaniels (Irish Water), Spaniels (Welsh Springer)

Mrs. Mareth K. Kipp – Spaniels (English Springer),

Spinoni Italiani, Vizslas, Wirehaired Vizslas

 

 

• HOUND GROUP:

 

BREED ASSIGNMENTS:

Dr. Jerry Klein – Afghan Hounds, Salukis

Mr. William R. Russell – American English Coonhounds,

Basset Hounds, Black and Tan Coonhounds, Bloodhounds, Bluetick Coonhounds, Foxhounds (American), Foxhounds (English), Harriers, Plott Hounds, Redbone Coonhounds,

Treeing Walker Coonhounds

Mrs. Valerie Hamilton – Basenjis, Rhodesian Ridgebacks, Scottish Deerhounds, Whippets

Mr. Thomas S. Powers – Beagles (Both Varieties),

Irish Wolfhounds, Petit Basset Griffon Vendéens

Mr. Alan L. Odom – Borzoi, Cirnechi dell’etna, Ibizan Hounds, Norwegian Elkhounds, Otterhounds, Pharaoh Hounds,

Portuguese Podengo Pequenos

Mrs. Monica Canestrini – Dachshunds (All Varieties)

Mr. Geir Flyckt-Pedersen – Greyhounds

 

 

• WORKING GROUP:

 

BREED ASSIGNMENTS:

Mrs. Monica Canestrini – Akitas, Alaskan Malamutes

Mr. Alberto Berrios – Anatolian Shepherd Dogs,

Black Russian Terriers, Boxers, Chinooks, German Pinschers, Great Pyrenees, Komondorok, Kuvaszok, Leonbergers,

Neapolitan Mastiffs, Saint Bernards, Tibetan Mastiffs

Ms. Helene Nietsch – Bernese Mountain Dogs, Bullmastiffs, Giant Schnauzers, Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs,

Siberian Huskies

Ms. Betty Regina Leininger – Boerboels,

Portuguese Water Dogs, Rottweilers

Dr. Dana Ann Smith Massey – Cane Corsi,

Dogues de Bordeaux, Great Danes, Mastiffs

Dr. Anthony D. DiNardo – Doberman Pinschers, Samoyeds, Standard Schnauzers

Ms. Janina K. Laurin – Newfoundlands

 

 

• TERRIER GROUP:

 

BREED ASSIGNMENTS:

Mrs. Mareth K. Kipp – Airedale Terriers, Kerry Blue Terriers

Mrs. Charlotte P. Patterson – American Staffordshire Terriers, Border Terriers, Cairn Terriers, Scottish Terriers,

Sealyham Terriers, Skye Terriers, Welsh Terriers

Mr. Geir Flyckt-Pedersen – Australian Terriers,

Norfolk Terriers, Norwich Terriers, Parson Russell Terriers, Staffordshire Bull Terriers, Manchester Terriers (Standard)

Mr. Gary M. Vlachos – Bedlington Terriers, Fox Terriers (Wire), Irish Terriers, Miniature Schnauzers,

Soft-Coated Wheaten Terriers

Mr. Dana P. Cline- Bull Terriers (Both Varieties),

Miniature Bull Terriers

Mrs. Barbara Dempsey Alderman – Cesky Terriers,

Dandie Dinmont Terriers, Lakeland Terriers, Rat Terriers,

Russell Terriers, West Highland White Terriers

Mr. Chad Howard – Fox Terriers (Smooth)

Mr. Thomas S. Powers -Glen of Imaal Terriers­­

 

 

• TOY GROUP:

 

BREED ASSIGNMENTS:

Mr. William R. Russell – Affenpinschers, Brussels Griffon,

Maltese

Mr. Dana P. Cline – Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, Poodles (Toy)

Mrs. Barbara Dempsey Alderman – Chihuahuas (Both Varieties), Chinese Cresteds

Mr. Chad Howard – English Toy Spaniels (King Charles & Ruby), English Toy Spaniels (Blenheim & Prince Charles), Japanese Chin, Toy Fox Terriers

Ms. Betty Regina Leininger – Havanese, Silky Terriers

Mr. Craig Grein – Miniature Pinschers, Pugs, Shih Tzu

Mrs. Anne Savory Bolus – Papillons

Mrs. Rosalind Kramer – Italian Greyhounds, Pekingese, Pomeranians, Yorkshire Terriers

Dr. Jerry Klein – Manchester Terriers (Toy)

 

 

• NON-SPORTING GROUP:

 

BREED ASSIGNMENTS:

Dr. Robert A. Indeglia – American Eskimo Dogs,

French Bulldogs, Keeshonden

Dr. Anthony D. DiNardo – Bichons Frises, Cotons de Tulear, Norwegian Lundehunds, Schipperkes, Shiba Inu, Tibetan Spaniels

Mr. Chad Howard – Boston Terriers

Mrs. Charlotte P. Patterson – Bulldogs

Mrs. Susan St. John Brown – Chinese Shar-Pei, Dalmatians, Finnish Spitz, Löwchen, Tibetan Terriers, Xoloitzcuintli

Mrs. Barbara Dempsey Alderman – Chow Chows

Mr. Craig Grein – Lhasa Apsos

Mr. Dana P. Cline – Poodles (Miniature), Poodles (Standard)

 

 

• HERDING GROUP:

 

BREED ASSIGNMENTS:

Mr. William P. Shelton – Miniature American Shepherds, Bergamascos, Berger Picards, Spanish Water Dogs

Mr. Carl Gene Liepmann – Australian Cattle Dogs,

Belgian Malinois, Belgian Sheepdogs, Norwegian Buhunds, Old English Sheepdogs, Polish Lowland Sheepdogs, Pulik

Mr. Alan L. Odom – Australian Shepherds, Pembroke Welsh Corgis, Shetland Sheepdogs

Mrs. Peggy J. Hauck – Bearded Collies, Bouviers des Flandres, Briards, Cardigan Welsh Corgis, Collies (Rough),

Collies (Smooth)

Mrs. Monica Canestrini – Beaucerons, Canaan Dogs,

Entlebucher Mountain Dogs, Finnish Lapphunds,

Pyrenean Shepherds, Swedish Vallhunds

Ms. Janina K. Laurin – Belgian Tervuren, Border Collies,

German Shepherd Dogs, Icelandic Sheepdogs

 

 

 

Junior PRELIMINARIES

 

Dr. Adam King – Fort Collins, CO

 

Mrs. Christine Englesman – Glen Ellyn, IL

 

 

VETERAN Group Judges

 

Colonel Joe B. Purkhiser of San Antonio, TX will judge Best Veteran in Show

• SPORTING – Ms. Pluis Davern – Royal Oaks, CA

• HOUND – Ms. Helen Stein – Chapel Hill, NC

• WORKING – Mr. Carl Gene Liepmann – Flushing, MI

• TERRIER – Mrs. Rosalind Kramer – Leesburg, VA

• TOY – Mr. James J. Mitchell – Wilmington, DE

• NON-SPORTING – Mr. Allen Odom – Denver, C0

• HERDING – Mr. Dana P. Cline – Rockford, IL

 

The 2015 AKC/Eukanuba National Championship

will mark the 15th event in AKC’s premier showcase for dogs, which is presented with Eukanuba.

 

*Panel subject to final approval.

 

 

December 12 & 13, 2015

Orlando, FL

 

The Brevard Kennel Club, the Central Florida Kennel Club and the Space Coast Kennel Club of Palm Bay shows will precede the

AKC/Eukanuba National Championship at the same site on Dec. 8-10, 2015 and a day of specialty and group shows will be held Dec. 11, 2015.

 

 

For more details visit akc.org or eukanuba.com

 

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