Each year our Branch presents an award to a woman whose work in any field — volunteer or professional — has demonstrated creativity, initiative, and outstanding achievement. Shown below are many of these wonderful women.
| 2024 Laura Wittenberg 2023 Denise Burian 2022 Stacia Cragholm 2020 Jan Cushman 2019 Gail Chesler 2018 Maryellen Judson 2017 Mary Ann McLeod 2016 Burckhalter School Volunteers 2015 Pat Lopker 2014 Sandy Fox-Sohner 2013 Maria Bonilla 2012 Mary Helene Tietz * 2011 Jan Coe * 2010 Mary Stephens Smith 2009 Joyanne Elkinton-Walker 2008 Maryann Zivic 2007 Cayo Marschner 2006 Mary Leigh Miller 2005 Valarie Burgess 2004 Barbara Harbuck* 2003 Charm Tatum * 2002 Jewel Smith * 2001 Judy Helder 2000 Pat Kessler 1999 Marna Eyring and Jean Somerset 1998 Alice Nashashibi 1997 Carol Messinger 1996 K. de Groot 1995 Victoria Courtney, Ph.D. 1994 Emily Visher, Ph.D.* 1993 Margaret Ashbrook * and Frances Leibold * 1992 Fay Schoenberger 1991 Helen Louise Ittner* |
1990 Susie Heilig * 1989 Gloria Weston* 1988 Betty Young * 1987 Jean Ricci 1986 Marcia Fochler 1985 Rosemary van der Laan * 1984 Janet Mooers 1983 Peggy Cabaniss 1982 Peggy Mihm 1981 Mary Louise Smith * 1980 Bobbie Dodson 1979 Alice Johnson* 1978 Katharina Rethy Ph.D*.& Gayle Uilkema * 1977 Dorothy D’Ambrogia 1976 Victoria Felton, Ph.D. 1975 Margaret DePriester * 1974 Dorothy Helmick 1973 Diana Herold 1972 Muriel James, Ed.D 1971 Carolyn Stokes * 1970 Elizabeth Karplus* and Kay Peterson * 1969 Yoshije Togasaki, M.D., M.Ph. 1968 Carol Leland * and Ruth Anderson * 1967 Chris Adams* and Marion Garthwaite 1966 Joyanne Elkinton 1965 Mary Merrill* 1964 Bobbie Dodson 1963 Ruth Anderson* 1962 Florence Garay* 1961 Marge Bartle* 1960 Jean Maleer* 1959 Margorie Bush* 1958 Helen Gilmore* 1957 Frances Leibold* 1956 Lillian Ruppenthal |
* Deceased