The 2024 Lifetime Achievement Awards
Congratulations to our honorees from the 16th Annual Lifetime Achievement Award Luncheon, held February 28, 2024!
Sharon Streater was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award. She was introduced by the Rev. Dr. Bernice Powell Jackson. Carlton Ward Jr. received the Sydney and Thalia Potter Civic Leadership Award. He was introduced by Molly James, CEO, Metropolitan Ministries Foundation.
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipients
2006 Senator Helen Gordon Davis
2007 Congressman Sam Gibbons
2008 Governor Robert “Bob” Martinez
2009 The Honorable Betty Castor
2010 The Honorable Jan Kaminis Platt
2011 The Honorable Dottie Berge MacKinnon
2012 The Honorable Frederick B. Karl
2013 The Honorable T. Terrell Sessums
2014 The Honorable Donald Castor
2015 The Honorable Mary Figg
2016 Doris Weatherford
2017 The Honorable Arthenia L. Joyner
2018 Geraldine McKinnon Twine
2019 The Honorable Fran Davin
2020 Liana Fernandez Fox, PhD
2024 Sharon Streater
Sydney & Thalia Potter
Civic Leadership Honorees
2008 Sydney & Thalia Potter
2009 Roger P. Stewart
2010 Alan “Mr. River” Wright
2011 Delia P. Sanchez
2012 Dana L. Shires, M.D.
2013 Matilda Garcia
2014 Evangeline Best
2015 Jan Tomlinson Smith
2016 Dr. Rick Garrity
2017 Holly Greening
2018 Joe Guidry
2019 Jane & Garry Gibbons
2020 Dena Gross Leavengood
2024 Carlton Ward Jr.