Distinguished Award Recipients

Past award recipients include:

Distinguished Alumni Award

• Robert S. Reder (JD '78)
• Darren Robbins (JD '93)
• Stephanie Parker (JD '84)
• Charles W. Gerdts III (JD '78) (posthumously)
• Frank M. Garrison Jr. (BA '76, JD '79)
• Richard S. Aldrich (JD '75)
• Jackson W. Moore (JD '73)
• Carlton B. Tarkington (BA '59, JD '63)
• Mark F. Dalton (JD '75)
• Cecil D. Branstetter (JD '49)
• James Bennett Miller (JD '64)
• Thomas W. Beasley (JD '73)
• William P. Purcell III (JD '79)
• Wayne Hyatt (BA '65, JD '68)
• Aubrey B. Harwell, Jr. (BA '64, JD '67)
• Sen. Fred D. Thompson (JD '67)
• George H. Cate, Jr. (BA '49, LLB '51)
• Pauline LaFon Gore (LLB '36)
• James R. Sasser (BA '58, JD '61)
• Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr. (JD '60)
• Richard H. Sinkfield (JD '71)
• James H. Cheek (JD '67)
• Tone N. Grant (JD '69)
• Fred P. Graham (LLB '59)
• Douglas S. Henry (BA '49, JD '51)
• Hugh J. Morgan (LLB '56)
• James F. Neal (LLB '57)
• Lucius E. Burch, Jr. (BA '34, JD '36)

Distinguished Service Award

• The Hon. Cornelia "Connie" Clark (BA '71, JD '71)
• Janie Greenwood Harris (LLB '64)
• The Hon. Aleta Arthur Trauger (MAT '72, JD '76)
• Victor S. Johnson III (JD '74)
• Alyne Queener Massey (BA '48) (posthumously)
• Lee S. Cutcliff (BA '61, LLB '67)
• Rita Geier (JD '70) and George Barrett (JD '57)
• Curtis R. Welling (JD '75)
• The Hon. Martha Craig Daughtrey (BA '64, JD '68)
• Janet A. Neuharth (JD '82)
• Karl F. Dean (JD '81)
• The Flynn Family (Bill, Katherine, Tim, BA '99 & Tom, BA' 96, JD '99)
• The Hon. Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr. (BA '52, JD '54)
• Richard F. LaRoche (JD '70)
• Pauline Aranas
• Tom McCoy
• Joseph C. McCarty (JD '71)
• Chancellor Joe B. Wyatt
• Richard S. Aldrich, Jr. (JD '75)
• Kay Simmons
• David Partlett
• Don Welch (MA '75, Ph.D '76)
• Edward J. Hardin (JD '68)
• Wayne S. Hyatt (BA '65, JD '68)
• Robert W. Brundige, Jr. (JD '69)
• Henry I. Bushkin (LLB '66)
• Mary Moody Wade
• Garner Anthony (LLB '59)
• Stephen D. Potts (BA '52, LLB '54)
• John S. Beasley II (BA '52, JD '54)
• Paul Hartman
• Grace W. Sims (BA '19, LLB '21)
• William A. McDonnell (LLB '17)
• Samuel W. Bartholomew (JD '73)
• Edward C. Blank II (BA '59, JD '61)
• James H. Cheek III (JD '67)
• Charles C. Trabue, Jr. (BA '32, LLB '33)
• Granville S. Ridley (LLB '16) (posthumously)
• A.M. Prewitt (JD '16) (posthumously)
• Cecil Sims (JD '14) (posthumously)
• Joseph G. Cummings (BA '38, LLB '40) (posthumously)
• Carmack Cochran (LLB '27) (posthumously)
• Reber F. Boult (BA '27, JD '29)
• W. Glasgow Reynolds (BA '32, JD '35) (posthumously)
• K. Harlan Dodson, Jr. (BA '38, JD '40) (posthumously)
• Edwin O. Norris (JD '53)
• Charles D. Matthews (JD '64)
• Wilson Sims (JD '48)
• Joe H. Foy (BA '48, JD '50)
• The Hon. William J. Harbison (BA '47, JD '50)
• William M. Hames (JD '62)
• R. Grattan Brown, Jr. (BA '57, JD '59)
• Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr. (JD '60)
• Anna F. Hinds (JD '67)
• Charles H. Warfield (BA '47, LLB '49)
• Ward DeWitt, Jr. (BA '48, JD '51)
• J. Lindsay Builder, Jr. (BE '65, JD '70)
• Thomas N. Amonett (BA '65, JD '68)

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