Spring form select box

[Casey Clayton]

I have a couple of select boxes in my spring form and when ever I submit it was returning a blank page, so I added some loggers and realized that it wasn't getting to my .save hibernate method to save it to the database so I started doing some debugging and realized that it isn't really grabbing anything from the select boxes instead it is filling the values as null and that isn't allowed in the DB what the issue could be?

Controller code

@RequestMapping(value = "/EmployeeNominationPage", method = RequestMethod.GET)
	public ModelAndView test() {
		ModelAndView mav = new ModelAndView();
		Employee user = new Employee();
		Location userLocation = new Location();
		userLocation.setLocationId(1);
		userLocation.setLocationName("Pierre");
		user.setLocation(userLocation);
		ArrayList<Employee> names = new ArrayList<Employee>();
		ArrayList<AwardTypeModel> models = new ArrayList<AwardTypeModel>();
		List<Employee> employees = employeeDao.findAll();
		List<AwardType> awardTypes = awardDao.getAwardTypes();
		Collections.sort(employees, Functions.lastNameOrder);
		for (Employee employee : employees) {
			if (employee.getLocation().getLocationId() == user.getLocation().getLocationId()) {
//				EmployeeModel model = new EmployeeModel(employee);
				names.add(employee);
			}
			
		}
		
		for (AwardType type : awardTypes){
			AwardTypeModel model = new AwardTypeModel(type);
			if(model.isActive()) {
			models.add(model);
			}
		}
		
		mav.addObject("names", names);
		mav.addObject("user", user);
		mav.addObject("awardTypes", models);
		mav.addObject("modelA", new AwardNominationModel());
		mav.setViewName("EmployeeNominationPage");
		return mav;
	}
	
	@RequestMapping(value="/addNomination", method = RequestMethod.POST)
	public String addNominationForm(@ModelAttribute ("modelA") AwardNominationModel model, BindingResult result){
		LOG.info("I am in the Employe Nomination Post");
		model.setCreated(new Date());
		model.setModified(new Date());
		model.setWinner(false);
		
		LOG.info("About to convert AwardNomination into database object");
		AwardNomination dbo = (AwardNomination) model.convertToDb();
		LOG.info("Converted AwardNomination about to save it to Database");
		awardNominationDao.save(dbo);
		LOG.info("AwardNomination saved to Database about to redirect to success");
		return "redirect:/success";
	}

JSP Page(Not the complete code just the relevant part)

<form:form commandName="modelA" method="post" action="/recognition/addNomination"> 
<font size="4px">Employee Name: </font>
<div class="form-group">

	<form:select path="nominee" class="form-control">
    <form:option value="NONE"> --SELECT--</form:option> 
    <c:forEach items="${names}" var="item">
		<form:option value="">
		<c:out value="${item.lastName}, ${item.firstName}" /> 
		</form:option>
   	</c:forEach>
   	</form:select>
	</div>
	 	<div class="form-group">
   	<font size="4px">Nominator:</font>
	
	<form:select path="nominator" class="form-control">
    <form:option value="NONE"> --SELECT--</form:option> 
    <c:forEach items="${names}" var="item">
		<form:option value="">
		<c:out value="${item.lastName}, ${item.firstName}" /> 
		</form:option>
   	</c:forEach>
	</form:select>
	</div>
	<br />
	<font size="4px">Award Type: </font>
	<div class="form-group">
	<form:select path="award" class="form-control">
	<form:option value="NONE"> --SELECT--</form:option>
	<c:forEach items="${awardTypes}" var="item">
		<form:option value="">
		<c:out value="${item.name}" />
		</form:option>
	</c:forEach>
	</form:select>