Academy for Women of Achievement

If life's highest calling is to serve others...
...then special honor is due those whose service to others inspires others to serve.

That is why each year the YWCA and its Academy for Women of Achievement honor those whose leadership serves and inspires others to succeed. Each year, on the night of the AWA ceremony, we pay special tribute to extraordinary leadership in the Nashville area and the continuing legacy of those who have improved our community by inspiring countless individuals' lives.

The Academy for Women of Achievement also recognizes a Middle Tennessee company or organization that has demonstrated a commitment to assist the entry, career advancement and/or working conditions for women employees. The Corporate Honoree has programs or policies in place that have removed barriers which delay or diminish women's opportunities with measurable results noted.

Proceeds from the Academy for Women of Achievement ceremony fund the programs of the YWCA.

AWA Honorees 1992-2011

1992 Cecelia Nabrit Adkins* Dorothy L. Brown* Sandra Ford Fulton Susan W. Gray* Anne Holt Suevelyn W. (Sue) Peters Mary Jane Werthan*	1993 Martha R. Ingram Elaine McReynolds Lucille Nabors Wilma Rudolph* Mildred Stahlman Molly Todd* Martha Warfield* Shirley A. Zeitlin	1994 Annette S. Eskind Harriet H. Foley Pauline L. Gore* Louise B. Katzman Marguerite W. Kondracke Leatrice B. McKissack
1995 M. Inez Gibbs Crutchfield Jane Eskind Betty C. Nixon Martha R. Ragland* Peggy Weil Steine* Leah Rose Werthan*	1996 Margaret L. Behm Deborah A. McDermott Frances Preston* Jamye Coleman Williams	1997 Honey B. Alexander Andrea Conte Kitty M. Emery Ruth E. Johnson Margaret H. Maddox*
1998 Stephanie Bailey Carole Standford Bucy Janet Jernigan Arshi Nasseh Sarah Hamilton Sell	1999 Lady Bird Donna Hilley* Florence S. Kidd Gayle E. Ray Susan Simons Susan M. Spickard	2000 Judith O. Barker Barbara G. Chazen May Dean Eberling Jo D. Federspiel Nancy A. Ransom Joyce Espy Searcy
2001 Deborah Y. Faulkner Deborah C. German Delorse Lewis Margaret Ann Robinson Elise L. Steiner* Rebecca Mary Stevens	2002 Felicia Figlarz Anchor Susan Allen Huggins M. Mercedes Lytle Patricia Ann Pierce Nancy A. Saturn*	2003 Deborah A. Cole Roxane B. Spitzer Jo Walker-Meador Jerry B. Williams Eleanor L. Willis Alice A. Zimmerman
2004 Betty M. Brown* Ellen E. Lehman Michelle B. Marrs* Carol L. McCoy Sally R. Smallwood	2005 Gertrude S. Caldwell Carol Etherington Brenda Gilmore Nancy Peterson Hearn	2006 Beth Callaway Alexander Mary Carson Clement Heloise Werthan Kuhn D. Billye Sanders Deborah Taylor Tate Yvonne Culbreath Wood
2007 Mary Lee G. Bartlett Donna R. Cheek Agenia W. Clark Amy M. Joyner Christine M. McCarthy Valerie Montgomery-Rice	2008 Frances K. Hardcastle Aileen Katcher Susie McClure Bishop Vashti McKenzie Barbara J. Moss Claire W. Tucker Debbie Turner	2009 Sallie W. Bailey Diane Neighbors Jean C. Nelson Donna D. Nicely Deborah E. Story Julie Williams
2010 Sigourney Cheek* Cornelia A. Clark Beth Seigenthaler Courtney Barbara N. Haynes Susan Short Jones Christine Karbowiak Vanek Sue Fort White	2011 Beth Fortune Patricia I. Hart Mary Lee Mathews Manier Linda Eskind Rebrovick Sharon K. Roberson Janis Sontany Katy Varney	2012 Kathy Cloninger Laurie Gold Eskind Stacey A. Garrett Renata Soto Mary Schlater Stumb Julie Wilson Walker

*deceased

AWA Corporate Award Recipients 1992-2010

1992 Kraft CPAs, PLLC Esstman, Patton & Harrell, Nations Bank of Tennessee	1993 IBM of Tennessee Office of the Mayor, Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County	1994 Corporate Child Care Management Services
1995 First American Corporation	1996 Saint Thomas Hospital	1997 J.C. Bradford & Company
1998 First Union National Bank of Tennessee	1999 BellSouth	2000 SunTrust
2001 Genesco	2002 Comdata	2003 Verizon Wireless
2004 Vanderbilt University	2005 Deloitte	2006 Dell, Inc.
2007 Allstate Insurance -- Southern Region	2008 Saint Thomas Health Services	2009 Nashville Electric Service
2010 Waller Lansden Dorth & Davis LLP	2011 Meharry Medical College	2012 Skanska