Honoring Exceptional Leaders
Every year, NCCJ honors local leaders with the Citation Award for their extraordinary efforts to combat bias, bigotry, and racism and create a more compassionate and respectful community for all of us – not just some of us.
Know someone who should be considered for the Citation Award? Please nominate them! We can’t honor someone who hasn’t been nominated. An NCCJ selection committee, including past honorees and board members, will convene in the spring to review all nominations and select this year’s honorees.
In 2023, we celebrated community leaders Mae Douglas and Dr. Patrick Harman
Mae Douglas Tribute Video
Dr. Patrick Harman Tribute Video
View tribute videos from previous years on our YouTube Channel.
Past Honorees
2022
Addy and Paul Jeffrey
Linda and Tom Sloan
2021
Betty Cone
Kitty and Earl Congdon
2020
Mary Humphrey Kendrick
Rev. Dr. Frank K. Thomas
2019
Judge Lawrence C. McSwain
Dr. Nido Qubein
2018
Joe M. Bryan, Jr.
Mary Lou Blakeney
2017
Dr. Thomas S. Haggai
Julie Peeples
2016
Sally and Bob Cone
Marsha and Jack Slane
2015
Margaret B. Arbuckle
Robert “Bob” J. Brown
2014
Tobee and Leonard Kaplan
2013
Sandra Daye Hughes
2012
Zaki Uddin Khalifa
Dr. Harold L. Martin, Sr.
2011
Dennis W. Quaintance
2010
Jim Melvin
James F. “Jim” Morgan
2009
Rabbi Fred Guttman
Rev. Dr. Mark R. Sills
2008
Dorothy “Dot” Kendall Kearns
2007
Claudette Burroughs-White
Bob Page
2006
Sally and Alan Cone
2005
Henry Isaacson
2004
Ralph Shelton
2003
Carole Bruce
2002
James S. Belk
2001
Dr. James E. Hull
2001
Dr. Otis E. Tillman
2000
H. Michael Weaver
1999
Shirley and Alex Spears
1998
Dr. George C. Simkins, Jr.
1997
Henry G. Carrison III
1996
Barbara and Herman Cone, Jr.
1995
Victor M. Nussbaum
1994
Joseph L. Berry
1993
Michael B. Fleming
1992
Cynthia E. Doyle
1992
Joanne K. Bluethenthal
1991
Henry and Shirley Frye
1990
McNeill and Louise Smith
1989
Lee Kinard
1988
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Smith
1987
Robert B. Jamieson
1987
Leah Louise B. Tannenbaum
1986
Arnold A. Schiffman
1985
Eugene A. Gordon
1984
Jane M. Armfield
1983
Rev. Otis L. Hairston, Sr.
1982
Dr. Joseph B. Mullin
1981
Sidney F. LeBauer, M. D.
1980
James S. Ferguson
1979
William D. Snider
1978
D. E. Hudgins
1977
Dr. John A. Redhead, Jr.
1976
Elreta Alexander-Ralston
1975
Charles W. Phillips
1974
Stanley Frank
1973
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Bryan, Sr.
1972
Albert S. Lineberry, Sr.
1971
L. Richardson Preyer
1970
Edward R. Zane, Jr.
1968
Ceasar Cone
1967
John R. Taylor
1965
Dr. Clyde Milner
1964
Herbert S. Falk
Past Dinner Chairs
2023
Leslie Dunne Ketner & Robert Ketner
2022
NCCJ Board of Directors
2021
Derek Ellington
2020
Denny Kelly & Lou Bouvier and Ann & Jim Morgan
2019
Donna and Bob Newton
2018
Duane & Madeleine Dassow and Vanessa Haygood & Vernon Stringer
2017
Bev and Odell Cleveland
2016
Ron and Victoria Milstein
2015
Mark and Ursula Dudley Oglesby
2014
Jayne and Don Cameron
2013
Al and Ginni Lineberry
2012
Emily and Ed Kitchen
2011
Carolynn and Tim Rice
2010
Shirley and Henry Frye
2009
Carole and Dick Bruce
2008
Eleanor and Steve Mosh
2007
Tamara and Jim Slaughter
2006
Terry and Rick Stone
2005
Pat and Pete Cross
2004
Frank and Nancy Brenner
2003
Dr. Aldona Wos
2002
Marc Isaacson and Jill Wilson
2001
Ralph K. Shelton
2000
Van and Jean King
1999
Kathy Manning & Randall Kaplan
1998
Linda & Tom Sloan
1997
Kay and Chip Hagan
1996
Sue Cole
1995
Tex Williams
1994
Shirley T. Frye
1993
Mr. & Mrs. Hayes D. Clement, Jr.
1992
Ann R. Lineweaver
1991
Alexander W. Spears, III
1990
Priscilla Patterson Taylor
1989
J. Douglas Galyon
1988
Anita C. Schenck
1987
H. Allen Andrew
1986
Barbara & Herman Cone, Jr.
1985
H. Michael Weaver
1984
Robert C. Eubanks, Jr.
1983
Richard I. Backer
1982
John R. Belfi
1981
Richard T. Howard
1980
Sam R. Sloan
1979
Paul W. Stephanz
1978
Charles A. Saldarini
1977
George E. Norman, Jr.
1976
Robert A. Kraay
1975
John B. Hatfield
1974
Charles Reid
1973
Stanley Frank
1972
Marion G. Follin
1971
Howard Holderness
1970
Nat P. Hayes
1968
Wilbur L. Carter, Jr.
1965
Albert Lineberry, John Hunnemann & Herbert Falk Jr., co chairs