Previous Maura Women Helping Women Award and Young Leader Award Recipients 

  • 1978 Adelfa Callejo*

  • 1978 Vivian A. Castleberry*

  • 1978 Betty Graham*

  • 1978 Adlene Harrison

  • 1978 Judge Sarah T. Hughes*

  • 1978 The Honorable Eddie Bernice Johnson

  • 1978 Maura McNiel*

  • 1979 Emmie Baine*

  • 1979 Gerry Beer*

  • 1979 Johnnie Marie Grimes*

  • 1979 Lucy Patterson*

  • 1979 Louise H. Raggio*

  • 1979 Hermine D. Tobolowsky*

  • 1979 Virginia B. Whitehill

  • 1980 Beverly A. Gandy

  • 1980 Chester Maxwell

  • 1980 Martina Navratilova

  • 1980 Dr. Ellenore Ott

  • 1980 Dianne Pingree

  • 1980 Barbara B. Reagan*

  • 1980 Judge Joan R. Winn Tarpley

  • 1980 Barbara Woodard*

  • 1981 Judge Theo L. Bedard*

  • 1981 Dr. Carolyn Galerstein*

  • 1981 Florence Lewis*

  • 1981 Shirley Miller

  • 1981 Gail B. Smith

  • 1981 Charlotte W. Taft

  • 1982 Suzanne Ahn, M.D.*

  • 1982 Susan Caudill

  • 1982 Margaret Estes*

  • 1982 Madeline Mandell

  • 1982 Rev. Dr. Mary Louise Rowand*

  • 1982 Charlotte Stewart

  • 1983 Myrtle Bulkley*

  • 1983 Donna Clack

  • 1983 Mary Esther Gaulden, M.D.*

  • 1983 Sally Sharp Jacobson

  • 1983 Marjorie W. Schuchat

  • 1984 Sonya Bemporad*

  • 1984 Theresa Canales-Jud

  • 1984 Harryette B. Ehrhardt

  • 1984 Patricia Greenwald

  • 1984 Carol Madison*

  • 1985 Ella Bailey*

  • 1985 Betty Jo Hay*

  • 1985 Joy S. Mankoff

  • 1985 Beverly Brooks Miller

  • 1985 Tegwin Pulley

  • 1985 Dan Weiser*

  • 1986 Nancy Goodman Brinker

  • 1986 Catalina E. Garcia, M.D.

  • 1986 Irene T. Ramirez

  • 1986 Eleanor Tufts, Ph.D.*

  • 1986 Barbara L. Watkins

  • 1987 Reverend Ruth T. Barnhouse, M.D.*

  • 1987 Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D.

  • 1987 The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison

  • 1987 Barbara James

  • 1987 Sandra C. Tinkham

  • 1988 Monica Yates Fried

  • 1988 Gertrude Miller*

  • 1988 Mary Evans Sias, Ph.D.

  • 1988 Annette Strauss*

  • 1988 Nellie Taffalla

  • 1989 Gloria de la Cruz*

  • 1989 Sharon S. King

  • 1989 Mamie McKnight, Ph. D.*

  • 1989 Caren H. Prothro

  • 1990 Dolores Barzune

  • 1990 Barbara S. Cambridge, Ph. D.

  • 1990 Dorothy Masterson

  • 1990 Lori Palmer

  • 1990 Barbara L. Sinak

  • 1991 Barbara Cottrell

  • 1991 Brenda L. Jackson

  • 1991 Patricia B. Meadows

  • 1991 Regina T. Montoya

  • 1991 Ruth P. Morgan, Ph.D.

  • 1991 Julie Scott Reed*

  • 1992 Susybelle L. Gosslee

  • 1992 Suzanne F. Greenman

  • 1992 Allen Mondell

  • 1992 Cynthia Salzman Mondell

  • 1992 Diane Pitts

  • 1992 Frances Rizo

  • 1992 DeMetris Sampson

  • 1993 Laura V. Estrada

  • 1993 Lyda H. Hill

  • 1993 Camille Keith

  • 1993 Mavis Knight

  • 1993 Barbara E. Rosenberg

  • 1994 Rita A. Cox

  • 1994 Pearl Garza Fracchia

  • 1994 The Honorable Helen Giddings

  • 1994 Scherry F. Johnson, Ed. D.

  • 1994 Barbara J. Middleton

  • 1995 Gloria Campos Brown

  • 1995 Elizabeth Cowles*

  • 1995 Lois G. Finkelman

  • 1995 Ella Goode Johnson

  • 1995 Ruby Morris*

  • 1996 Gale Duff-Bloom

  • 1996 Sally M. Knox, M.D.

  • 1996 Ann E. Margolin

  • 1996 Kathleen To

  • 1997 Kay W. Cole*

  • 1997 Dr. Mona Hersh-Cochran

  • 1997 Rosanne M. Ortega

  • 1997 Cynthia Reavis

  • 1997 Susan Stahl*

  • 1998 Susan Abrahamson*

  • 1998 Julie G. Lowenberg

  • 1998 Sandra D. Malone

  • 1998 Ann Minnis*

  • 1998 Thalia C. Oliphant

  • 1999 Phyllis Fishman Bernstein

  • 1999 Cora Cardona

  • 1999 Barbara F. Materka

  • 1999 Vicki Price-Smith

  • 1999 Bernice J. Washington

  • 2000 Sylvia L. Benson

  • 2000 Brent Berryman

  • 2000 Cathy Bonner

  • 2000 Gail A. Griswold

  • 2000 Rev. Dr. Sheron C. Patterson

  • 2000 Becky R. Sykes

  • 2001 Brenda F. Brand

  • 2001 David Farmer

  • 2001 Cecilia McKay

  • 2001 Marion G. Sobol

  • 2001 Linda Walker-Bender

  • 2002 Elaine B. Agather

  • 2002 Sharlene Block*

  • 2002 Dianne Curry

  • 2002 Victoria Downing

  • 2002 Cynthia A. Gonzalez

  • 2002 Lekha Singh

  • 2002 Martha R. Tiller

  • 2003 Lyn Berman

  • 2003 The Honorable Kathryn W. Hall

  • 2003 Elizabeth F. (Liza) Lee

  • 2003 Suzanne Marshall

  • 2003 Anita N. Martinez

  • 2003 Thalia F. Matherson, Ed. D.

  • 2004 Julie Spicer England

  • 2004 Nancy Ann Hunt

  • 2004 Margaret H. Jordan

  • 2004 Wendy A. Lopez

  • 2004 Ellen Terry

  • 2004 Linda Thomas*

  • 2005 Michele Bobadilla

  • 2005 Linda P. Custard

  • 2005 Kathy LaTour

  • 2005 Karen Shuford

  • 2005 Ruth Thomas

  • 2006 Norma L. Beasley*

  • 2006 The Honorable Angie Chen Button, CPA, CFP

  • 2006 Lisa Hembry

  • 2006 Gene and Jerry Jones

  • 2006 Jan E. Langbein

  • 2007 Cindy D. Ankele

  • 2007 Cecilia G. Boone

  • 2007 Carol C. Donovan, PC

  • 2007 Ebby A. Halliday*

  • 2007 Cynthia B. Nunn

  • 2007 Alice L. Rodriguez

  • 2007 Vicky Teherani

  • 2008 Naomi D. Aberly

  • 2008 Lottye S. Brodsky, Ph.D.

  • 2008 Hattie Hill

  • 2008 Patricia A. Porter

  • 2009 Shaunna F. Black

  • 2009 Former First Lady Laura Bush

  • 2009 Patricia Peiser

  • 2009 Betty S. Regard

  • 2009 Roslyn Dawson Thompson

  • 2009 Nina Vaca

  • 2010 Rebel B. Calhoun

  • 2010 Effie Dennison

  • 2010 Paige H. Flink

  • 2010 Anita Marcos

  • 2011 Wanda R. Brice

  • 2011 Phyllis Farragut

  • 2011 Delia Jasso

  • 2011 Cathy Wilkins Moffitt

  • 2011 Jan Pruitt*

  • 2011 Patricia A. Vaughan

  • 2011 Alinda H. Wikert

  • 2013 Clare Buie Chaney, Ph.D.

  • 2013 Melendy Lovett

  • 2013 Beverly Tobian

  • 2014 Debbie Dudley Branson

  • 2014 Lauren Embrey

  • 2014 Helen Holman

  • 2014 Retta Miller

  • 2014 Gauthami Vemula

  • 2015 Kim Askew

  • 2015 Julie Mamolen Bleicher

  • 2015 Liz Cedillo-Pereira

  • 2015 Valerie Freeman

  • 2015 Major General Mary Saunders, USAF, Retired

  • 2016 Diana C. Dutton

  • 2016 Rabbi Nancy Kasten

  • 2016 Vicki Meek

  • 2016 Katie Pedigo

  • 2016 Billie Byrant Schultz

  • 2017 Hind El Saadi El Jarrah, Ph.D.

  • 2017 Madeline McClure, LCSW

  • 2017 The Honorable Judge Tonya Parker

  • 2017 Lupe Valdez

  • 2018 Arcilia C. Acosta

  • 2018 Jocelyn D. Kidd, DDS

  • 2018 Cynthia Mickens Ross

  • 2018 Gail Turner

  • 2019 Dee Dee Bates

  • 2019 Sally Dunning

  • 2019 Ana I. Hernandez

  • 2019 Ashlee Kleinert

  • 2019 Nicole G. Small

  • 2020 Dana Blankenship

  • 2020 Tracey Doi

  • 2020 Beverly Hill

  • 2020 Kathleen LaValle

  • 2020 Jennifer Stimpson

  • 2021 Trisha Cunningham

  • 2021 Jin-Ya Huang

  • 2021 Rani Puranik

  • 2021 Judy Treviño

  • 2021 Cheryl Polote Williamson

  • 2021 Diana Mao

  • 2021 Kim Roxie

  • 2022 Patricia Rodriguez Christian

  • 2022 Arlene Ford

  • 2022 Patricia Jasso

  • 2022 Lynn McBee

  • 2022 Thana Simmons

  • 2022 Stacy Johnson

  • 2022 Sharareh Kermanshachi

  • 2023 Froswá Booker-Drew, Ph.D.

  • 2023 Aimee Boone Cunningham

  • 2023 Madeline Burillo-Hopkins, Ed.D

  • 2023 Mary Pat Higgins

  • 2023 Jill Louis

  • 2023 Bee Nance

  • 2023 Ann Sheu

Previous Special Recognition Award Recipients

  • 2003 Attitudes & Attire

  • 1997 Dallas Chapter - The LINKS

  • 1996 Dallas Women's Foundation

  • 1989 Explore, Inc.

  • 1979, 1988 The Family Place

  • 2000 Junior League of Dallas

  • 1980 KBOX

  • 1993 League of Women Voters of Dallas

  • 1992 Media Projects, Inc.

  • 1998 National Council of Jewish Women

  • 2002 North Texas United Nations Conference on Women

  • 2001 SMU DeGolyer Library

  • 1990 SMU Women's Symposium

  • 1996 Texas Instruments, Inc.

  • 1987 Texas Woman's News

  • 2002 Women's Issues Network

  • 1984 Women's Southwest Federal Credit Union

  • 1995 YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas

Previous Young Leader Award Recipients

  • 2013 Veronica Torres

  • 2014 Myiesha Taylor, M.D.

  • 2014 Brittany Merrill Underwood

  • 2015 Marissa E. Horne

  • 2015 Christa Sanford

  • 2016 Brittany K. Byrd

  • 2016 Lacy L. Durham, Esq.

  • 2017 Cynthia Nwaubani, CPA

  • 2018 Vanessa Bouché, Ph.D.

  • 2018 Brooke López

  • 2019 Dr. Hae Sung Han

  • 2019 Ana I. Rodriguez

  • 2020 Karla Garcia