Past Award Recipients

2021

AWARD OF MERIT

Amy Popovich, Virginia

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Keri Urguhart, Michigan

2019

LEGACY AWARD

Kathleen Gremel, California (posthumously) 

AWARD OF MERIT

Linda Worman, Pennsylvania

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Georgia Nursing Leadership Coalition

2018

LEGACY AWARD  (No awardee)

AWARD OF MERIT

Kristin A. Bennett, Delaware

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Midwest Public Health Training Center

2017

LEGACY AWARD

Susan B. Hassmiller, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  

AWARD OF MERIT

Hermia Parks, California

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

ASTHO, Mary Ann Cooney

2016

LEGACY AWARD (Inaugural)

Maude E. Callen (posthumously)

AWARD OF MERIT

Amy Wilson, New Mexico

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Cindy Zolnierek, Texas Nurses Association 

2015

AWARD OF MERIT

Kaye Bender, Virginia PHAB

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Suzanne Miyamoto, The Nursing Community

2014

AWARD OF MERIT

Susan Swider, Illinois

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

2013

AWARD OF MERIT

Judy Gibson, CDC

2012

AWARD OF MERIT

Shirley Orr, Kansas

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Scott Becker, Association of Public Health Laboratories

2011

AWARD OF MERIT

Sharon Moffatt, ASTHO

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Sharon Stanley, Chief Nurse, American Red Cross

2010

AWARD OF MERIT

Kitty Mahoney, Massachusetts

2009

AWARD OF MERIT

Bobbie Berkowitz, Washington State

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Pat Drehobl, CDC

2008

AWARD OF MERIT

Karen O’Brien, Colorado

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Mary Pat Couig, Chief Nurse, USPHS

2007

AWARD OF MERIT

Glenda Kelly, Missouri

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Rita Munley Gallagher, ANA

2006

AWARD OF MERIT

Lillian Mood, South Carolina 

2005

AWARD OF MERIT

Nancy Davis, Alaska

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

George Hardy, ASTHO

AWARD OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Patsy McCall, Tennessee

2004

AWARD OF MERIT

Sharon Moffatt, VT and Joy Reed, NC

AWARD OF RECOGNITION

Kristine Gebbie, Columbia University

1999

AWARD OF MERIT

Carole Jakeway, Georgia