Women of the Year
Woman-of-the-Year and Champions of Justice Awards
1984 Anita Johnson Mackey Work Life
Lenora Ford McDowall Home and Community Life
Mary E. Walsh Church Life
1985 Eleanor Brady Hetke Home and Community Life
Rosa Lee Jones Church Life
Kathleen Keen Zolber Work and Professional Life
1986 Rosa Taylor Banks Work and Professional Life
Del Delker Church Life
Irene Felice Osborne Home and Community Life
1987 Alcyon Logan Fleck Home and Community Life
Joyce Wilson Hopp Work and Professional Life
Carmen Lopez de Morales Church Life
1988 Barbara J. Blackston Outstanding Achievement
Anita Cavagnaro Ford Home and Community
Judy Harris Lovett Church Life
Blythe Owen Work and Professional Life
1990 "Nancy" Nongnuch Bassham Church Life, FED
Mercedes Pereda de Bernal Professional Life, SAD
Virginia Osgood Clark Church Life, TED
Virginia Rittenhouse Fagal Professional Life, NAD
Ruthita Fike Professional Life, NAD
Twyla Reimche Gimbel Professional Life, EAD
Chessie Walker Harris Home Life, NAD
Rowena Rick Professional Life, FED
Iris Stahl Schantz Professional Life, TED
Arlene Taylor Church Life, NAD
1991 Hazel Budd Burns Church Life
Mary White Henderson Home and Family
Lonna Tachenko Milburn Outstanding Achievement
Lilya Vinglas Wagner Work and Professional
1992 B. Lyn Behrens Professional Life
Ramona Perez Greek Outstanding Achievement
Wilma Jones Hepker Community Life
Elline Looper Holland Home Life
Catherine B. "Kit" Watts Church Life
1993 Nyla Juhl [Imler] Community Life
Nancy Eastman Marter Church Life
Sheree Parris Nudd Professional Life
Cheryl Nystrom Stowers Family Life
Lorna Clevenger Tobler Outstanding Achievement
1994 Gayle McCoy Clark Family Life
Madelynn Jones Haldeman Church Life
Frances "Penny" Gustafson Miller Professional Life
Carol Doe Porter Community Life
Karen Scott Outstanding Achievement
Penny Shell Pastor/Chaplain
1995 Linda L. Ammons Professional Life
Ellen Bresee Church Life
Janet Oteng Fordjour Family Life
Anita Requeñez Moses Community Life
Virginia-Gene Shankel Rittenhouse Outstanding Achievement
Hyveth Bent Williams Church Life
1996 Hertha Ehlers Lifetime Achievement
Patricia Breedlove Habada Lifetime Achievement
Erna Steinmann Krüger Lifetime Achievement
Leona Glidden Running Lifetime Achievement
Ottilie Frank Stafford Lifetime Achievement
Helen Ward Thompson [Zolber] Lifetime Achievement
1997 Adly Castrejon de Campos Church Life
“Elsie” Check-Yan Leung Chan Youth Life
Mable Anderson Dunbar Family Life
Gertrude Green Lifetime Achievement
Margaret "Peg" Hempe Spiritual Leadership
Shirley Ann Munroe Professional Life
Helen Tarasenko Sprengel [Lutz] Lifetime Achievement
Laura Carlson Sundin Community Life
1998 Maxine Blome Community Life
Dorothy Minchin Comm Lifetime Achievement
Charlotte Patterson Hamlin President’s Award
Kay Humpal Kuzma Family Life
Kathryn Haycock Proffitt Outstanding Achievement
Lang "Aileen" Van Spiritual Life
Brenda Blackmon Wood Professional Life
1999 Jocelyn Fay Church Life
Thesba Yeaton Johnston Lifetime Achievement
Arlene West McFarland Community Life
Carolina Castillo Rose Professional Life
Beulah F. Stevens Spiritual Life
Phyllis M. Ware Outstanding Achievement
Elisabeth Appleton Wear Family Life
2000 Elaine Estes Drury Family Life
Karen Christoffel Flowers Church Life
Effie Jean Potts Ketting Lifetime Achievement
Rebekah Wang Cheng [Scriven] Outstanding Achievement
Dorothy Ellen Valcarcel Community Life
Penny Estes Wheeler Professional Life
Miriam Brown Wood Lifetime Achievement
2001 Joan McCallister Bova Church Life
T. Grace Emori Outstanding Achievement
Gwendolyn Winston Foster Community Life
Donna Lugenbeal Habenicht Family Life
Betty Hogan Howard Lifetime Achievement
Gladys Jeremiah Spiritual Life
Merlene Ann Ogden Professional Life
Minnie Iverson Wood Lifetime Achievement
2002 Marla Osborne Anderson Outstanding Achievement
C. Joan Coggin Lifetime Achievement
Cari M. Dominguez Outstanding Achievement
Donna Rubano Galluzzo Professional Life
Annetta M. Gibson Professional Life
Verla Michel Kwiram Church Life
JoAline Gruzensky Olson Community Life
Felicia LeVere Phillips Spiritual Leadership
Margit Linnea Süring Lifetime Achievement
"Lily" Hok Neo Wong Family Life
F Lyn Mallery Champion of Justice
2003 Josephine Griffin Benton Lifetime Achievement
Patricia Jo Gustin Outstanding Achievement
Norwida Marshall Professional Life
Alberta Bernhard Mazat Family Life
Beatrice Short Neall Spiritual Leadership
Rose Niesen Otis Church Life
Kathlyn Waldrip Severance Community Life
Irma Bachmann Vyhmeister Lifetime Achievement
Mae Crocker Watson Youth Life
Warren Banfield Champion of Justice
Lawrence T Geraty Champion of Justice
2004 Georgia Knight Carter Church Life
Lynette M. Carrington Cox Spiritual Leadership
Patricia Clark Foster Distinguished Service
Jasmine Fernando Jacob Outstanding Achievement
Andrea Luxton Professional Life
Marilyn Kueffner Savedra Lifetime Achievement
Rhonda Whitney Community Life
2005 Jeanette "Ginn" Hartley Fourie Spiritual Leadership
Esther Díaz de Guerrero Church Life
Helen Margaret Hall Outstanding Achievement
Alice Achieng Owuocha Ouma Community Life
Ardis Dick Stenbakken Distinguished Service
Siriporn Tantipoonwinai Professional Life
Charles T Bradford Champion of Justice
2006 Phetsile Kholekile Dlamini-Nkomo Distinguished Service
Eugenia Lopez-Sustache Giordano Professional Life
Aune Ainsalo Greggas Church Life
Paula Appley Leen Lifetime Achievement
Merikay McLeod Outstanding Achievement
Zhu Ai Zhen Spiritual Leadership
Zhu Qing Yan "Linda" Community Service
Arthur Rudy Torres Champion of Justice
2007 Joy-Marie Ford Butler Outstanding Church Leadership
Karen Hanson Kotoske Philanthropic Excellence
Rigmor Mari-Anne Nyberg Humanitarian Excellence
Qin Zheng Yi "Zhang Zhu" Outstanding Achievement
Nancy Weber Vyhmeister Professional Distinction
Dorothy Eaton Watts Entrepreneurial Church Leadership
Jan Paulsen Champion of Justice
2008 Mary Ang’awa Distinguished Service
Sally Shadel Hasselbrack Outstanding Achievement
Cheryl Roberts Saunders Professional Life
Gabriele Stangl Community Life
2009 Audray Moorhouse Johnson Outstanding Church Leadership
Mary Whipple Outstanding Achievement
2010 Ella Louise Smith Simmons Outstanding Church Leadership
Don Roth Champion of Justice
2011 Myrna Costa Casado Professional Life
Bonnie Wharton Dwyer Outstanding Achievement
2012 Cynthia J. Prime Outstanding Achievement
2013 Christine P. Crosby Lifetime Achievement
Judith Lloyd Storfjell Outstanding Achievement
2014 Frederica Harris Community Life
Sandra Roberts Spiritual Leadership
2016 Carolyn Slepnikoff Lacy Distinguished Service
Iris Landa Community Life
Adeny Schmidt Professional Life
Fritz Guy Champion of Justice
Randal Wisbey Champion of Justice
2018 Durdica Garvanovic Porobija Youth Life
2019 Carole Ferch-Johnson Outstanding Achievement
Linda Mendez Youth Life
Chris Oberg Spiritual Leadership
Corene Stennis Community Life
Dan Jackson Champion of Justice
2020 Dynnette Elaine Hart Community Life
Nyslie Guerrier Community Life
Juana Dina Salas Montoya Spiritual Leadership
Hilde Thorkildsen Huru Spiritual Leadership
Ginger Hanks Harwood Outstanding Achievement
Ricardo Graham Champion of Justice
Dave Weigley Champion of Justice
2021 Dianne Sike-Paotonu Scholarship
Helen Hopp Marshak Leadership and Administration
Phyllis Ware Lee Leadership and Administration
Charles Sandefur Champion of Justice
Henry J Fordam III Champion of Justice
2022 Sylvia Klinger Outstanding Achievement
Nandi Fleming Church Life
Carmela Monk Crawford Outstanding Achievement
Margaret Solomon Professional Life
Verna Alva Lifetime of Service
Judy Lello Community Service
Randy Roberts Champion of Justice
2023 Drene Somasundram Scholarship and Church Leadership
Maria Silvia Neri Castrejon Church Leadership
Norma Nashed Humanitarian Leadership
Olive Hemmings Scholarship and Spiritual Leadership
William G Johnsson Champion of Justice
Loren Seibold Champion of Justice
2024 Elizabeth Talbot Spiritual Leadership and Media Ministry
Silvia Scholtus Scholarship and church leadership
Vi Zapara Philanthropic Leadership
Rene Drumm Scholarship and Church Leadership
Victor Marley Champion of Justice
2025 Anathasie Nda Church Leadership
Wanda Phipatanakul Leadership in Medicine
Patricia Cople Leadership in Science
Darius Jankiewicz Champion of Justice