Past Honorees

2008
Mrs. Laura Bush
Barbara Harrison

2007
Kathleen Matthews
Chris Matthews

2006
George F. Will
The Honorable Sargent Shriver
Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver

2005
Dr. Dorothy I. Height

2004
Sharon Percy Rockefeller

2003
Brian Lamb

2002
Bill Monroe

2001
Wilhelmina Holladay

2000
Paul Duke
Laughlin Phillips

1999
Carl T. Rowan
Willard Scott

1998
Dr. James Billington
Helen Thomas

1997
Letitia Baldridge
Eddie Gallaher
William J. Raspberry

1996
Herb Block
Mrs. Jefferson Patterson
The Honorable Walter Washington, Jr.

1995
Elizabeth Campbell
Austin Kiplinger
Mark Russell

1994
Patrick Hayes
Marianne Means
The Honorable Edmund S. Muskie
Dr. Marjorie H. Parker

Founders Circle

Ms. Mary Arden Batch
Mrs. Frederick H. Bowis
Mrs. Thomas Brown
Mrs. Ruth H. Buchanan
Mrs. J. Edward Day
Ms. Grace Escudero
Mr. Donald R. Larrabee
Mrs. Hayden LeRoy*
Mrs. Thurgood Marshall
Ms. Gerald W. Petitt
Mrs. Joseph Pietrus
Mrs. David E. Varner*
Mrs. Helen P. Wright*
Mrs. John W. Yago, Jr.