Stockwell first joined Armstrong in 1972, and held sales assignments in the Atlanta, Baltimore and Boston district offices. He returned to the company's Lancaster, Pa. headquarters in 1977. From 1988 to 1994, he served as field sales manager and general manager of Residential Products for the Armstrong flooring business. He was named president of Corporate Retail Accounts in 1995, and assumed his senior vice president position in June 2001.
J. Steven Renkert, a 42-year veteran of the tile industry, has been named the 2002 Tile Person of the Year by the Tile Council of America (TCA). Each year, TCA recognizes a person who has been instrumental in increasing the consumption of ceramic tile.