Honoree – Harvey Ruvin- EDGE Masquerade Ball 2008

Harvey Ruvin is a graduate Industrial Engineer (University of Florida 1959). He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Miami Law School, 1962. Mr. Ruvin lives in Miami Beach with his wife, Risa. He has two sons, an adult son Eric and Zachary, a teenager. He is an avid exercise, fitness and health devotee, having been ranked as high as 16th in the nation by the American Racquetball Association.

His public career continues to be hallmarked by environmental advocacy and technological expertise.

Through over thirty years of community involvement, Harvey Ruvin, has performed a leadership role within scores of civic, cultural, environmental and charitable organizations. He has been the recipient of numerous awards ranging from the 1987 Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce “MAN OF THE YEAR AWARD” to the coveted Tropical Audubon Society Conservation Award in 1981 and in 1985 (the only person ever to have been named twice). He has received environmental service awards from the Sierra Club as well as from the Environmental and Industry Association.

In 1981 he was singled out by the then President of the National Association of Counties as Outstanding County Official in the Nation. In 1989, Harvey Ruvin was named “COUNTY LEADER OF THE YEAR” by AMERICAN CITY AND COUNTY MAGAZINE.

The prestigious Washington-based Public Technology Institute named him as “2002 Public Technologist of the Year” in America, citing his efforts to employ emerging technologies to reengineer government processes, eliminating paper, achieving savings and efficiencies.

Winner of the COMPUTERWORLD Magazine’s “2004 Medal of Achievement” for utilizing technology to achieve massive savings and enhancing the public’s accessibility to records.
Winner of the much coveted “2004 Public Administrator of the Year” awarded by the South Florida Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration.

To Harvey, his greatest honor came when “Naples”, a rescued West Indian manatee gave birth to a male calf and the Seaquarium named the newborn “Harvey” in recognition of the Commissioner’s work on behalf of the endangered species (Sept. 1990).

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