Awardees

2025 – Dr. Victor Waters

2024 – Dr. Karen Hardin

2023 – Mr. Marvin Perry

2022 – Ms. Paula Cullison

2021 – Ms. Sharon Cini

2020 – Ms. Kim Covington

2019 – Dr. Neal Lester

2018 – Mr. Don Logan

2017 – Rev. Dr. Warren H. Stewart, Sr.

2016 – Dean Shirley L. Mays

2015 – Ms. Christine French

2014 – Dr. Rufus Glasper

2013 – Mrs. Gerda Weissmann Klein

2012 – Mr. David & Mrs. Joan Lincoln

2011 – no awardee

2010 – Mr. Calvin C. Goode for Cloves Campbell Sr.

2009 – Mrs. Terri Donovan Mansfield

2008 – Mrs. Lucille Bridges

2007 – Mr. Gennaro Buonocore

2006 – Dr. Kelly Bender

2005 – Mrs. Lorraine Weiss Frank

2004 – Rabbi Emeritus Albert Plotkin

2003 – Rev. Dr. Raymond G. Manker

2002 – Dr. L. Wilson Kilgore & Miss Laurie D. Wray

2001 – Mr. Jonathan Marshall

2000 – Mr. John Wintersteen

1999 – award not established

1998 – award not established