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 1992-2010

1992 Cecelia Nabrit Adkins* Dorothy L. Brown, M.D.* Sandra Ford Fulton Susan W. Gray* Anne Holt Suevelyn W. Peters Mary Jane Lowenheim Werthan*	1993 Martha R. Ingram Elaine A. McReynolds Lucille C. Nabors Wilma Rudolph* Mildred T. Stahlman, M.D. Molly Todd* Martha H. Warfield* Shirley A. Zeitlin	1994 Annette Schaffer Eskind Harriet H. Foley Pauline Lafon Gore* Louise Brooks Katzman Leatrice B. McKissack Marguerite W. Sallee Krondracke
1995 M. Inez Crutchfield Jane G. Eskind Betty Chiles Nixon Martha Ragsdale Ragland* Peggy Weil Steine* Leah Rose Werthan*	1996 Margaret Louise Behm Deborah Ann McDermott Frances Williams Preston Jamye Coleman Williams	1997 Honey Alexander Andrea Conte Kitty Moon Emery Ruth E. Johnson Margaret H. Maddox*
1998 Stephanie B. Coursey Bailey, M.D. Carole Standford Bucy Janet Geier Jernigan Arshi Dokht Nasseh, Ph.D. Sarah Hamilton Wood Sell, M.D.	1999 Lady Bird Donna Hilley Florence Steele Kidd Gayle Ray Susan W. Simons Sue Spickard	2000 Barbara G. Chazen May Dean Eberling Jo D. Federspiel Judith O. Liff Barker Nancy A. Ransom Joyce Espy Searcy
2001 Deborah Faulkner Deborah C. German, M.D. Delorse A. Lewis Margaret Ann Robinson Elise L. Steiner Rebecca Mary Stevens	2002 Felicia Figlarz Anchor Susan Allen Huggins M. Mercedes Lytle Patricia Ann Pierce Nancy Adelson Saturn*	2003 Deborah A. Cole Jo Walker Meador Roxane B. Spitzer Jerry Banks Williams Eleanor Lawson Willis Alice A. Zimmerman
2004 Betty Brown Ellen Lehman Michelle Marrs* Carol McCoy Sally Smallwood	2005 Gertrude Caldwell Carol Etherington Brenda Gilmore Nancy Hearn	2006 Beth Callaway Alexander Mary Carson Clement Heloise Werthan Kuhn D. Billye Sanders Deborah Taylor Tate Yvonne Culbreath Wood
2007 Mary Lee Bartlett Donna Cheek Agenia Clark Amy Joyner Christine McCarthy Valerie Montgomery-Rice, M.D.	2008 Fran Hardcastle Aileen Katcher Susie May Newsom McClure Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie Barbara Moss Claire Tucker Debbie Turner	2009 Sallie Bailey Diane Neighbors, Ph.D. Jeanie Nelson Donna Nicely Deborah Story Julie Williams, Ph.D.

2010
Cornelia A. Clark
Elizabeth Seigenthaler Courtney
Barbara Haynes
Susan Short Jones
Christine Karbowiak
Sue Fort White
Sigourney Cheek*

* 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