Awards & Recognitions

Past Winners of our “Women of Excellence” Awards

  • 2024 – Puja Craddock, MD and Mary Fortune (receiving the first Mary Diane Fortune Award)
  • 2023 – Mary Ann Kirby and Teresa Renkenberger
  • 2022 – La’Verne Edney, JD and Anna Asher, MD
  • 2019 – Robin Robinson and Candie Simmons
  • 2018 – Nancy  Carpenter and Susan Murphy
  • 2017 – Beverly Hogan, PhD and Jane-Claire Williams, MD
  • 2016 – Bessie Speed and Vonda Reeves-Darby, MD
  • 2015 – Shannon Warnock and Maggie Wade
  • 2014 – First Lady of Mississippi, Deborah Bryant
  • 2013 – Lucy Mazzaferro
  • 2012 – Sister Dorothea Sondegrath
  • 2011 – Indira K. Veerisetty, MD
  • 2010 – Becky Fowler Brister
  • 2009 – Patty Peck Christie
  • 2008 – Martha Saunders,PhD
  • 2007 – Ruth Fredericks, MD