Past Recipients
Among the recipients have been philanthropist E. O. Robinson, Courier-Journal publisher Barry Bingham, future Nobel laureate William N. Lipscomb Jr., Vice President of the United States Alben W. Barkley - as well as those whose service was almost anonymous. The latter include Patrick Smith, who in retirement built homes for the poor on three continents; Earl Ogata, who devoted years to serving Lexington’s poor, alcoholic, and homeless, led Spanish and Japanese churches, and provides a home to international students through the International Fellowship Program; Elizabeth Rebmann, who, while on active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with the Kentucky National Guard, worked tirelessly to improve the lives of people there; and Joshua Nadzam, who volunteered extensively with the Catholic Action Center, the Kentucky Refugee Ministry, Ronald McDonald House, God’s Pantry, the Hope Center, and headed the campus “Soles for Souls” shoe drive. These individuals gave their time and energy to improve the lives of others.
2022 - 2000
2021: Marilyn Daniel, Citizen; Michelle Kuiper; Ranym Nenneh
2020: Yvette Hourigan, Citizen; Kaitlyn Frick; Joseph Walden
2019: Ashraf Fhamy, citizen; Nadia Benali, Citizen; Dealla Samadi; Beau Revlett
2018: Emily Jones, Citizen; Madison Conroy; Esias Bedingar
2017: Cagney Coomer Felton, Citizen; Kaylee Hicks; Kyle Hancock
2016: Tanya Torp, Citizen; Caroline Engle; Jason Schubert
2015: Linda Gorton, Citizen; Grace Trimble; Max Godby
2014: Debra Hensley, Citizen; Katie Skarvan; Drew Ritzel
2013: Jennifer W. Mynear, Citizen; Patrick B. Johnson; Andrea J. Kohlman
2012: Earl T. Ogata, Citizen; Elizabeth A. Rebmann; Joshua M. Nadzam
2011: Deborah Goonan, Citizen; Anna Lisa Hays
2010: Patrick Hogan Smith, Citizen; Rebecca Elizabeth Linares
2009: Patricia Freeman, Citizen; Corinne Keel; Aun Munis
2008: William R. Grimes, Citizen; Megan K. Tolley; Joseph David Ritchie
2007: Linda A Harvey, Citizen; Tara Bonistall; Christopher George Garnett
2006: Mahabeen Rafiuddin, Citizen; Monica Lee Hobson; Daniel Stephen Turner
2005: Judy Harrison, Citizen; Megan Sonya Thomas; Brandon Edward Leo Fenley
2004: Virginia Marsh Bell, Citizen; Amelia C. Brown; Albert Kalim
2003: Curtis William Absher, Citizen; Jonathan Dewaal Green; Andrea Joy Murray
2002: Don Ball, Citizen; Amanda Holloway; Jay Varellas
2001: Patrick P. DeLuca, Citizen; Kristina Marie Talbert-Slagle; Clayton Thomas Dunn
2000: Doris Fooks Rosenbaum, Citizen; Kasey Shannon Buckles; George Randall Lawson
1999 - 1980
1999 Joy E. Hembree, Citizen Melanie Bell Cruz Henry J. Curtis, Jr.
1998 Brenda S. Oldfield, Citizen Katherine Leigh Chiles (Katy) Jeffrey Kyle Sheppard
1997 Alfred Crabb, Jr., Citizen Laura J. Keith William David Johnson
1996 Larry Bell, Citizen Damonica Gail Huff Roger McCain Brown
1995 Jean Cravens, Citizen Paul Douglas Sullivan Mary Jane Regester
1994 Lucille Little, Citizen Wesley Butler Jean Jackson
1993 Garland M. Bastin, Citizen Susan Kim Dupree David Wilton Pace
1992 Frances Ruth Shively, Citizen Melinda Sue Lovett Eric Douglas Coleman
1991 Robert Gordon “Dean” Matheson, Citizen Cheri Lynn Orme Daryle L. Cobb
1990 David Michael Richey, Citizen Kathryn Anne Beach Patton Ray Hart
1989 Gloe L. Bertram, Citizen Angela Mills Motley Jon Lamos
1988 Richard E. Cooper, Citizen Julie Chemberlin Quick Charles Anthony Jones
1987 Gloria Walton Singletary, Citizen Laura Jan Lovelace John Paul Menkhaus
1986 Thomas P. Bell, Citizen (Awarded posthumously) Jo Ann Rayburn Palmer Benjamin Lyle Clifford
1985 Abby L. Marlatt, Citizen Cynthia Gertrude Wilburn Walter Allen Shewmaker
1984 Bernard Mason Johnson, Citizen Jennifer Ann Dorsey James Glen Gray
1983 William F. Wagner, Citizen Rebecca Alice Ewalt Robert Joseph Mangas
1982 Don W. Byars, II, Citizen Judy Marie Madigan Mark Leo Vonderheide
1981 Rose Mary Codell Brooks, Citizen Patricia Whitford Ashley Willis Ward
1980 Fannie Herman Miller, Citizen Kyle Robert Macy Martha Anne Stout Butler
1979 - 1960
1979 Ellis Ford Hartford, Citizen Cheryl Lynn Trotter Steven Dale Thomas
1978 Martin M. White, Citizen Shirleen Kay Sutton Jackie Lamont Givens
1977 Marion Brooke Sprague, Citizen Georgia Louise Brock Stephen Terhune Tamme
1976 Hunter M. Adams, Citizen Lois Jean Stocking William Judson Shaw
1975 Mrs. Genevieve Allen Murray, Citizen Bette Jane Dollase Joseph H. Kinnarney
1974 Alberta Coleman, Citizen Tracy Ann Bruce Kris W. Kimel
1973 Elizabeth Neil Kirwan, Citizen Cynthia Anne Gouzie Richard Elliot Day
1972 Smith D. Broadbent, Jr., Citizen Helen Anne Jones Damon R. Talley
1971 Barkley Moore, Citizen Belle Finley Bassett Stephen Lloyd Tichenor
1970 Miss Lula Hale, Citizen Martha Ellen Harney Don Graeter
1969 Joy Bale, Citizen Michael Farmer Taft McKinstry
1968 Samuel VanderMeer, Citizen Nancy Fitch Bryant William Nichols Eigel, III
1967 Thomson Ripley Bryany, Citizen Johnnie Kielene Cross (Miss) Clyde Lewis Kirtley
1966 Mrs. Sarah B. Holmes, Citizen Sarah Anderson List Willis K. Bright, Jr.
1965 Mrs. Herman Lee Donovan, Citizen Sandra Kay Brock Keith Hagan
1964 Robson Duncan McIntyre, Citizen Glynda Sue Stephens Larry Lovell
1963 R.R. Dawson, Citizen Ann Gorson Evans (Mrs. John Joseph Greely, III) David William Graham
1962 Dr. Rufus B. Atwood, Citizen Myra Leigh Tobin Constantine William (Deno) Curris
1961 Prof. John Sherman Horine, Citizen Joyce Ann Malcomb Leroy Seaton McMullan
1960 Harriett Drury Van Meter, Citizen Sidney Davis Crouch (Miss) Robert Wadlington White
1959 - 1940
1959 Henry Fischer, Citizen Nancy Todd Foster (Mrs. John Anson) Richard Cornelius Roberts
1958 Marian Dupuy Williamson, Citizen Mary Holmes Kauffman (Mrs. David H. Vaughn) Samuel Roy Woodall, Jr.
1957 Statie Estelle Erikson, Citizen Barbara Jean Roberts (Mrs. Paul E. Schrading) Richard Leroy Lehman
1956 Walter Cole Jetton, Citizen Betty Jo Martin (Mrs. Charles E. Palmer, Jr.) Paul Ray Eggum (Dr.)
1955 Enna Jodephine Woerner, Citizen Ann Marie O’Roark (Mrs. J.F. McKirachan) Leslie White Morris, III
1954 Lewis Franklin Allen, Citizen Elaine Moore (Mrs. Raymond G. Turenne) Diogenes Allen (Rev.)
1953 Mary Belknap Gay, Citizen Ruth Ann Maggard (Mrs. Hugh Alan Storrow) Jess Lewis Gardner
1952 Dr. Alice Newcome Pickett, Citizen Ann Gleaves Carson (Mrs. Thomas H. Asbury) John Tilden Ballentine
1951 Thomas Poe Cooper, Citizen Janet Allen Anderson (Mrs. James C. Graff) James Richard Line
1950 Ezra L Gillis, Citizen Sara Mae Greene (Mrs. Rezin Caleb Howell) Eugene Ryburn Weakley
1949 Alben W. Barkley, Citizen Mary Sue McWhirter (Mrs. Harold Thurman) Charles Edward Whaley
1948 Paul Garrett Blazer, Citizen Helen Gibson Hutchcraft (Mrs. Franklin E. Moak) Harry Russell Conrad
1947 William Perry King, Citizen Sara Lee Trabue (Mrs. Frank Lacy, Jr.) Frank Selby Hurst
1946 Harry W. Schacter, Citizen Betty Lee Fleishman (Mrs. Sam Fein) Edward Albert Bary (Rev.)
1945 Joshua Burgess, Citizen Virginia Stuart Baskett (Mrs. D. Leach, Jr.) Scott Reed
1944 Alonzo Willard Fortune, Citizen Helen Louise Harrison James Henry Saunders (Dr.)
1943 William H. Courtney, Citizen Myrtle P. Binkley (Mrs. W.T. Land) Robert H. Hillenmeyer
1942 Harry Vernon McChesney, Citizen Elizabeth Garrard South (Mrs. Thomas E. Jones) Joe Atkerson Gayle
1941 Barry Bingham, Citizen Jean Marie McConnell (Mrs. Norman Chrisman, Jr.) William N. Lipcomb, Jr. (Dr.)
1940 No Citizen Jeanne Russell Barker (Mrs. Robert Alexander Nolan) Louis Tillman Iglehart
1939 - 1927
1939 S. Ballard Thurston, Citizen Ruth Johnson (Mrs. George H. Tinker) Arthur Plummer
1938 Frances Jewell McVey, Citizen Rae Lewis (Mrs. Guy F. Vansant, Jr.) Roger Brown (Harlan R. Brown, Jr.)
1937 No Citizen Dorothy Whalen (Mrs. Robert H. Grace) Ike Moore
1936 George Goodwin, Citizen France Kerr (Mrs. A.E. Barnes, Jr.) Elvis Stahr
1935 Mrs. Mary Breckinridge, Citizen Lucy Jean Anderson Henry McCowan
1934 Dr. Charles W. Welch, Citizen Jeane Spears Peak (Mrs. Earl R. Michel) Walter Hugger Steitler
1933 No Citizen Jany Dyer (Mrs. James Phillip Arnold) George Skinner
1932 Katherine Pettit, Citizen Elizabeth Poole (Mrs. St. George T. Arnold) Robert Allen Wise
1931 E.O. Robinson, Citizen Nancy Schrugham (Mrs. William L. Beck) Rex Allison
1930 Max Brunswich Nahm, Citizen Elizabeth Cramer (Mrs. Charles A. Schoene) John Benson
1929 Sam Wilson, Citizen Margaret Gooch (Mrs. Margaret G. Kiser) William Glanz
1928 Linda Neville, Citizen Charlsey Smith (Mrs. Donald B. Sutherland) Gayle Mohney
1927 Lewis Smith, Citizen Jeannette Metcalf John Rachel