Distinguished Service Award
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The Distinguished Service Award should be reserved for persons who have contributed importantly to Southern Illinois, to the nation, to the world, to the State, and/or to the University. No University employee shall be considered for a Distinguished Service Award in the year of his or her retirement; however, this does not preclude the consideration of an exceptionally qualified employee for an Award at a time either before or after the year of his retirement.
Nomination deadline for 2025 awards is Wednesday, October 16, 2024.
For nomination guidelines and contact information for the Distinguished Service Awards, please view the Nomination Guidelines and Deadlines.
Previous Recipients
| 2024 | Larry H. Dietz |
| 2024 | Paul E. Echols |
| 2023 | Tammera L. Holmes |
| 2023 | Gregory W. Webb |
| 2022 | Carolyn Taft Grosboll |
| 2022 | John S. Jackson III |
| 2022 | Thelma Mothershed-Wair |
| 2021 | Harold Bardo |
| 2021 | Terrence J. Roberts |
| 2021 | Edward Sing Wong |
| 2020 | Seymour L. Bryson, Ph.D. |
| 2020 | Carolyn F. Donow, Ph.D. |
| 2019 | The Blair Saluki Dogs |
| 2019 | Jim Blair |
| 2019 | Vicki Blair |
| 2019 | Richard Blaudow |
| 2018 | Bob G. Gower, Ph.D. |
| 2018 | Harvey Welch, Jr. |
| 2017 | Era Eugene (Gene) Callahan |
| 2017 | Gregory N. Cook |
| 2017 | Dorothy (Dede) Lingle Ittner |
| 2016 | F. Lynn Pheeters |
| 2016 | Charlotte West, Ph.D. |
| 2016 | Charles N. Wheeler, III |
| 2015 | Michael "Mike" Lawrence |
| 2015 | Marsha Ryan |
| 2014 | James L. Moody |
| 2014 | Charles E. Priester |
| 2013 | Ella M. Phillips Lacey |
| 2013 | Pamela K. Pfeffer |
| 2013 | Philip M. Pfeffer |
| 2012 | Larry D. Bailey |
| 2012 | Brocton D. Lockwood |
| 2011 | George William "Bill" Beck |
| 2011 | George Sheffer |
| 2009 | Barbara Lesar |
| 2008 | David L. Briscoe |
| 2005 | William A. Fenwick |
| 2005 | Marianne Webb |
| 2004 | Howard A. Peters III |
| 2002 | Jack W. Graham |
| 2001 | Paul Simon |
| 2000 | Charles H. Hindersman |
| 2000 | Judith Roales |
| 1999 | Marcia L. Bullard |
| 1999 | James W. Neckers |
| 1998 | Betty Lou Mitchell |
| 1998 | Robert K. Weiss |
| 1997 | Tom Blomquist |
| 1997 | Emma K. (Katy) Simonds |
| 1994 | Ivan A. Elliott, Jr. |
| 1993 | Lewis E. Hahn |
| 1993 | Marvin D. Kleinau |
| 1992 | Walter J. Wills |
| 1991 | Hiram H. Lesar |
| 1991 | Anne West Lindsay |
| 1985 | Willis Malone |
| 1985 | Virginia Marmaduke |
| 1981 | Dorothy Mayo Morris |
| 1980 | Henry J. Rehn |
| 1980 | Charles Tenney |
| 1979 | Marie Hinrichs |
| 1979 | Ralph E. McCoy |
| 1976 | John G. Gilbert |
| 1975 | Irvin M. Peithmann |
| 1974 | Hilda A. Stein |
| 1973 | Goffrey Henry Hughes |
| 1969 | Kenneth J. Gray, M.C. |
| 1967 | Ulysses S. Grant, General |
| 1964 | John W. Allen |
| 1962 | Ross Randolph |
| 1959 | Charles M. Thompson |
| 1958 | Joan Hunter |
| 1956 | Florence Fifer Bohrer |
| 1956 | Charles W. Clabaugh |
| 1956 | J. Lester Buford |
| 1954 | Andy Hall, M.D. |
| 1954 | Kent E. Keller |
| 1954 | Ella K. Mosely |
| 1953 | R.G. Crisenberry |
| 1953 | Robert W. Davis, Brigadier General |
| 1953 | O.W. Lyerla |
| 1953 | Paul Powell |