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.
| 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