President's Award

The ARIA President’s Award recognizes an individual’s distinguished, sustained, and significant service contributions to ARIA, service that otherwise might go unrecognized. This award was initiated in 1994 by then-President Dr. Harold Skipper of Georgia State University, and is given out each year by the current ARIA President.

2026 Recipient: Frank Tomasello

Past Winners

  • 2025 Martin Boyer
  • 2024 Anne Elizabeth Kleffner
  • 2023 Robert Hoyt
  • 2022 Joseph Qiu
  • 2021 Martin F. Grace
  • 2020 Lisa Posey
  • 2019 Keith Crocker
  • 2018 Patricia Born
  • 2017 Andreas Richter
  • 2016 Harris Schlesinger
  • 2015 Joan Schmit
  • 2014 J. David Cummins
  • 2013 Tony Biacchi
  • 2012 Georges Dionne
  • 2011 
  • 2010 Martin Grace
  • 2009 Mary Weiss
  • 2008 Debbie Babcock and Kathleen McCullough
  • 2007 Richard Derrig
  • 2006 Norma Nielson and Ryan Lee
  • 2005 W. Jean Kwon and Patrick Liedtke
  • 2004 Norman Baglini
  • 2003 Diana Lee
  • 2002 Richard MacMinn
  • 2001 Philip W. Stichter
  • 2000 
  • 1999 Karen Hamilton, Terrie Troxel and Amy Ellsworth
  • 1998 Bill Rabel
  • 1997 Richard Derrig
  • 1996 Jim Garven
  • 1995 Terrie Troxel
  • 1994 Anita Benedetti