INDIANA, Pa. — Michael Dean Berkheimer, a native of Roaring Spring, a 2006 history major graduate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Cook Honors College, was honored with the 2022 IUP Young Alumni Award.

This award was created to recognize recent IUP graduates identified as being outstanding in their professions. IUP has more than 145,000 alumni all over the globe.

IUP graduates of less than 15 years are eligible for this award. Recipients are selected by the deans of their colleges. When award recipients return to campus for the award ceremony, they are hosted by members of IUP Ambassadors, the student-alumni group and make presentations to IUP classes in their fields.

Berkheimer is a senior trial attorney for the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., where he litigates enforcement and compliance matters on behalf of the National Labor Relations Board before the U.S. Courts of Appeals and U.S. District Courts.

He has appeared before eight federal circuit courts and more than two dozen federal district courts.

He is also a judge advocate in the Joint Force Headquarters of the Maryland Army National Guard and has been a human intelligence collector in the 629 Military Intelligence Battalion.

He has been given the highest ranking of “outstanding” in yearly evaluations from 2009 through 2020 and was awarded early promotion to GS-14 based upon achieving outstanding rating in the first three yearly reviews.

He is a member of Izaak Walton League of America, Bethesda-Chevy Chase chapter, and the Seneca Creek chapter of Trout Unlimited.

Berkheimer, a summa cum laude graduate of IUP with an economics minor, was the first member of the IUP football team to be in the Robert E. Cook Honors College.

He was also a Provost Scholar, McNair Scholar and Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Scholar Athlete. He also was a contributor and editor of the IUP journal “The Endnote” and was selected for Mortar Board honor society.

In addition to his IUP degree, he earned a juris doctor degree from Penn State University in 2009 and an associate of applied science degree in intelligence studies from Cochise College.

He is the son of Dean Berk-heimer and Marsha Berkheimer and is a 2001 graduate of Central High School, Martinsburg.

He and his wife, Sandra, have three children.