Our Past Honorees
2022 Honorees
Irene Butter
Imam Abdullah Antepli
Jack Petocz
Zander Moricz
2021 Honorees
Rabbi Philip and Ruth Lazowski
Jessica Owyoung
Olivia Coley-Pearson
Julia Jassey and Isaac De Castro
2020 Honorees
Bellan Woodard
Gerda Weissmann Klein
Team Brownsville – Michael Benevides, Sergio Cordova, Melba Cordova, Andrea Rudnik, and David Lucio
2019 Honorees
Judge Thomas Buergenthal
Taylor Dumpson
Claire Sarnowski
Mia Yamamoto
2018 Honorees
Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson
Eva Moses Kor and Father Patrick Desbois
Maria Gabriela Pacheco
Susan Bro
Rais Bhuiyan
2017 Honorees
Chief Louis M. Dekmar
Gavin Grimm
Ann Jaffe
Tolu Olubunmi
2016 Honorees
Adrianne Haslet
Christine Leinonen
Lieutenant Mike Madden
Alana Simmons
2015 Honorees
Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper
General (Ret.) Mansour Abu Rashid
Ambassador Jakob Finci
2014 Honorees
Reat Griffin Underwood, Dr. William Lewis Corporon, Teresa Lamanno
Billy Mills
Jacqueline Murekatete
2013 Honorees
Representative John Lewis
Jose Antonio Vargas
Daniel Pearl
Judy and Dennis Shepard
2012 Honorees
Irene Fogel Weiss
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
Police Officer Moira Ann Smith
Amardeep Singh Kaleka
2011 Honorees
Paola Czyzewski
SGT Kimberly D. Munley
Mike Shillingburg and David Brown
Pat Kutteles
2010 Honorees
Violet Sutton-Lawson
Wei Chen
Balbir Singh Sodhi
Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan
2009 Honorees
Tom Self
Mindy Finkelstein
Joseph Ileto
Ilsa and Lisa Klinghoffer
2008 Honorees
Lillian Kimura
Judge Melissa Powers
Ronit Tubol
2007 Honorees
Liviu Librescu
Eugene Sayles
Bujar Veselaj
David Ritcheson
2006 Honorees
Vincent Chin
Simon Deng
Ruby Bridges
2005 Honorees
Tibor (“Ted”) Rubin
Paul Dadge
Jim Hood
Mohammed Odeh Al-Rehaief
2004 Honorees
David Gewirtzman and Jacqueline Murekatete
Rabbi Seth and Sherri Mandell
Detective Doug Comfort and Sergeant Dean Lay
David Smith and Sandra Roberts
2003 Honorees
Paul Wos
Johnny Micheal Spann
Dr. David Applebaum
Nicola Waddell
2002 Honorees
Staff Sergeant Andrew Ropel, U.S. Army
Marla Bennett
Chief Charles A. Moose
Lauren and Greg Manning
2001 Honorees
Officer George Howard
Lieutenant Colonel Paul T. Anderson
Lieutenant Commander David A. Tarantino
Lieutenant Thomas O’Hagen, Firefighters Paul Beyer, William Green, Thomas Holohan and William Johnson
Jeremy Glick
2000 Honorees
John Avera
Robert Langford
Donald Cannon and Tim Baughan
Eli Rosenbaum
1999 Honorees
Ephraim Wolfe
Megan Miller
Romaine Patterson
Chuenee Sampson
1998 Honorees
Sylvia Poggioli
Sydney Shanberg
Jerry Mitchell
Gordon Parks
1997 Honorees
Henna White and Jean Griffiths, founders of “Mothers to Mothers
Karen Mathews
Bill and Lindy Seltzer
Joseph Hartzler, Assistant U.S. Attorney and the Oklahoma City Prosecution Team
1996 Honorees
Aaron Flicker
Thang Nguyen
Tom Donegan
Reverand Terrance G. Mackey, Sr.
Gary Svee, editor of the Billings Gazette
1995 Honorees
Germaine Belline
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese Consul General
Monsignor Pierre-Marie Théas and Marie-Rose Gineste