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Dan Tongen (Central Region)
My name is Dan Tongen, I’m from MN and 1 of the original members of the 
Four Points Retriever Club.   I would like to thank the Invitational committee along with NAHRA for asking me to be 1 of the judges for this years event.  I have been involved with several Invitationals and know 1st hand how much work goes into these events .  I have been a member of NAHRA for a long time, I really enjoy the program and the way it tests your dog to be an all around retriever. I have 3 other labs that I have it will run in the NAHRA program, when we aren’t running events I can be found hunting in MN, North Dakota or Canada . I really enjoy waterfowl hunting, and the hunting I do a well rounded retriever is essential. I want to wish good luck to each of you. All of you have worked hard to be here and it doesn’t happen overnight, there is a lot of time and hard work that goes into it. 
Jim Hundemer (East Region)

I was introduced to North American Hunting Retriever Association in 2005 at a field test held on a turkey farm in Virginia. I went away from that event with the realization that NAHRA and the people who were NAHRA made for a very different experience than I had running AKC hunt tests. Put more simply, NAHRA just had a different “vibe” and matched my goal of having a versatile and well-trained hunting dog. Over the years since then I have qualified two GMHRs, one HR and am  working with a little firebrand named B with hopes of some day earning an MHR with her. At some point in those years I began judging and was very proud when my 50 point patch arrived in the mail. What I value most are the many great people I’ve met over the years, the judges I’ve run under who taught me things I didn’t know I needed to know, the folks who were always there to lend a hand or offer a suggestion.

Tom Johnston (East Region)

I was honored to judge the 2011 NAHRA Invitational in Iowa. To be asked a second time to judge for
my home club is humbling and a true honor. As many know, my involvement in NAHRA was largely
accidental but came to define much of my adult life. NAHRA has led my wife (Karen) and I to many
places and the formation of many lifelong friendships. While I no longer travel as much as we once
did, I have recently become reengage thanks to a crazy thing called Ping. I would like to thank
Invitational Committee for this opportunity and looking forward to working with my co-judges (again) to help make the 2026 NAHRA Invitational Field Test worthy of the dogs that have entered.