Past Citizen Laureates

Year	Community Laureates	Academic Laureates
1977	The Honorable Samuel S. Stratton	Ivar Giaever, Ph.D.
1978	The Honorable Francis Bergan	William N. Fenton, Ph.D.
1979	Clarence Parker	Stuart Bondurant, M.D.
1980	The Most Reverend Howard Hubbard	Vincent Schaefer
1981	Lewis A. Swyer	John F. Dewey, Ph.D.
1982	Clifton C. Thorne, Ed.D.	James W. Corbett, Ph.D.
1983	Katherine S. Rozendaal	George M. Low
1984	Matthew Bender IV	John C. Gerber, Ph.D.
1985	Lee D. Lindstrom	Richard T. Beebe, M.D.
1986	Peter D. Kiernan	Joseph C. Palamountain, Jr., Ph.D.
1987	Morris Massry	Ralph D. Alley, M.D. Margaret M. Stewart, Ph.D.
1988	The Honorable Jacob H. Herzog	Reverend Thomas Phelan
1989	Victor J. Riley, Jr.	William Kennedy
1990	Elizabeth A. Sonneborn	Vincent O’Leary
1991	Alan V. Iselin	Bernard Pollara, M.D., Ph.D.
1992	Carl E. Touhey	Walter M. Gibson, Ph.D.
1994	Lewis Golub	Joseph J. Bulmer, Ph.D.
1995	J. Spencer Standish	Sara S. Chapman, Ph.D. Alain E. Kaloyeros, Ph.D.
1996	Charlotte S. Buchanan, Esq. Gary R. Allen ’70, Alumni Laureate	Louis C. Vaccaro, Ph.D. Douglas M. Windham, Ph.D.
1997	Honorable John E. Holt-Harris, Jr., Esq. The Picotte Family	Roland W. Schmitt, Ph.D.
1998	Daniel J. Hogarty, Jr.	Anthony P. Tartaglia, M.D.
1999	Kenneth T. and Thelma (Perkins ’48) Lally The Honorable Thomas M. Whalen III	David H. Porter, Ph.D.
2000	The Honorable Arthur J. Roth The Honorable Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr., Millennium Laureate	Shirley J. Jones, DSW
2001	The Honorable Joseph L. Bruno	David O. Carpenter, M.D.
2002	Alan Goldberg	Mary C. Kahl, Ph.D
2005	John C. Egan John E. Kelly III Morris “Marty” Silverman	Meredith A. Butler
2006	Richard C. Liebich R. Mark Sullivan	Frank J. Thompson, Ph.D.
2007	Neil and Jane Golub George M. Philip, Esq.	Paul A. Leonard, Ph.D. Leonard A. Slade, Ph.D.
2008	E. Stewart Jones, Jr. Esq. Edward P. Swyer	Helen R. Desfosses, Ph.D.
2009	The Honorable Hugh L. Carey, 30th Anniversary Laureate
2010	John J. Nigro	Sally Temple, Ph.D.
2011	Wallace W. Altes Robert M. Curley	John Balint, M.D.
2012	I. Norman and Micki Massry	Katharine Briar-Lawson, Ph.D.
2013	James J. Barba	Stephen M. Berk, Ph.D.
2014	Phoebe Powell Bender Daniel P. Nolan ’74	Fr. Kevin J. Mullen, O.F.M., Ph.D.
2015	William J. Cromie I. David Swawite	Vincent P. Verdile, M.D.
2016	Angelo Mazzone Walter L. Robb	Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
2017	Rev. Kenneth J. Doyle The Honorable Gerald D. Jennings ’76	Andrew J. Matonak, Ed.D.
2018	Richard Kotlow Peter M. and Barbara J. Pryor	Karen R. Hitchcock, Ph.D.
2019	David Alan Miller Harry & Anne Rosenfeld	Marlene Belfort, Ph.D.
2022	Chet & Karen Opalka Alice Green ’83 & Charles Touhey ’91	Alicia Ouellette, J.D.
2023	Robert Lazar, CPA MS ’77  Dr. James K. Reed	Roberta Bernstein, Ph.D.