SV Judge Ilona Fornal has been involved in the sport since 1982. She was appointed as an SV IGP judge in 2008. She has judged more than 100 competitions, which include several German national championships as well as WUSV qualification events in many countries. She was the obedience co-judge at the 2023 WUSV World Championship and will judge the obedience part at the 2025 WUSV World Championship.

Mrs Fornal has competed with several dogs at regional and national events in Germany. In 2003, she was part of the team representing Germany at the WUSV World Championship. Her dog, Watz vom alten Felsenkeller, placed 27th (97-92-87 = 276). Unoxx z Gargamellu is her current dog. Together, they were the runner up at the SV Regional championships (LG12) in 2022 and 2023. The team also participated at the 2022 SV Championship.

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Mrs Fornal is married and the mother of 3 children. Together with her husband, she breeds German Shepherds under the kennel name “vom Scloß Eberstein“. Several of their dogs have competed at LGA, Landes-FH, BSP, VDH-DM and FCI World Championships.

Mrs Heidi Theis is a licensed performance (2017) , show (2016) and breed surveyor (2017) under WUSV member, United Schutzhund Clubs of America (USCA). In 2018, she was  appointed as the USCA National Breed Warden and Chair of the USCA Breed Advisory Committee.

Mrs Theis is committed to preserving the working characteristics and temperament of the German Shepherd dog. She places a heavy emphasis on correctly balanced temperament, strong nerve, obedience talent, and natural working drives. Mrs Theis has been breeding for 35 years under the kennel name "vom Theishof".

She has trained and titled 7 dogs to SchH/IPO/IGP3 level -  6 of these were bred by her. Most of the females used in her breeding program are trained, titled to IGP3 level, shown, handled, breed surveyed by Mrs. Theis. Her Hemi vom Theishof achieved IPO3, IGP3, FHV, FH2 and IGP-FH. She has placed in the top-10 at several USCA regional IGP competitions. In total she has earned 59 SchH/IPO/IGP titles (including 18 SchH/IPO/IGP3 titles), several FH titles and numerous endurance titles. On the conformation side, she had earned 40 KKL1/KKL2/KKl/Ang titles and 72 breed ratings including highest Sieger Show rating of VA on VA-10 Ax Redox SchH3, KKL1a. She has competed at several USCA Sieger Shows and placed first at the UCSC Sieger show in 2009.