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Previous Recipients

• 2007
• David A. Faber, Chief Judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
• Kim WeaverAstrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and adjunct associate professor at John Hopkins University

• 2006
  • Dwight B. Billings, Professor of Sociology, University of Kentucky
  • Peter J. Kalis, Partner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP
  • Cheryl Ware, Children's Author
  • James P. Zacny, Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago
  • John E. Ferling, Author and Historian, Professor Emeritus at the University of West Georgia
• 2005
  • Richard M. Adams, Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, United Bankshares, Inc. and United Bank
  • A. L. Emch, Chief Executive Officer, Jackson Kelly PLLC
  • Bonnie L. Yegidis, Provost, Florida Gulf Coast University
  • Jon L. Jordan, Federal Air Surgeon (retired), Federal Aviation Administration
• 2004
  • Maggie Anderson, Professor of English and Director of the Wick Poetry Program, Kent State University
  • Mary Ellen Mazey, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Wright State University
  • Thomas E. Potter, Attorney and Partner of Jackson Kelly
  • Larry V. Starcher, West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Justice
  • G. William Whitehurst, Kaufman Lecturer in Public Affairs, Old Dominion University
• 2003
  • William D. Barnhart, Program Director, Internal Medicine, Weiss Memorial Hospital of the University of Chicago Hospitals
  • James R. Gabriel, Co-Founder and President Gabriel Brothers, Inc. and Rugged Wearhouse, Inc.
  • Jay A. Garner, Executive Vice President and Chief Economic Development Officer, Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• 2002
  • John A. Cardea, Professor and Chair of Orthopedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Laura L. Carstensen, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
  • Harlan R. Janes, Retired Vice President, ACNielsen
  • Thomas A. Lyson, Professor of Rural Sociology, Cornell University
  • David D. Meisel, Distinguished Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Geneseo
  • Mark Royden Winchell, Professor of English, Clemson University
• 2001
  • William R. Haden, President, West Virginia Wesleyan College
  • Jennie C. Hunter-Cevera, President, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute
  • Eugene P. Salvati, Surgeon, Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center
  • Cecil H. Underwood, Governor of West Virginia
• 2000
  • Edwin F. Flowers, Judge and University Administrator
  • Addison M. Fischer Owner, Fischer International Systems Corporation
  • Margaret Clay Hambrick, Regional Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons
  • Steven C. Hayes, Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada
  • M. Blane Michael, Federal Judge
• 1999
  • Irene McKinney, West Virginia Poet Laureate
  • Alan D. Poling, Professor of Psychology, Western Michigan University
  • Rebecca C. Cain, President, National League of Women Voters