List of Distinguished Alumni
The Distinguished Alumni Award has been conferred by the College of Nursing since 1978.
- 2025 Susan Corbridge, PhD ’09
- 2024 Barbara McFarlin, PhD ’05, MS ’84, BSN ’74
- 2023 Yoko Shimpuku, PhD ’10
- 2022 Sue Penckofer, PhD ’93, MS ’82, BSN ’79
- 2021 Tonda Hughes, PhD ’89
- 2020 Brian M. Stahulak, BSN ’97
- 2019 Mariann Piano, PhD ’88, MS ’84
- 2018 Paul Kuehnert, DNP ’12, MS ’91
- 2017 Lisa Hopp, PhD ’92, MS ’88
- 2016 Mary A. Nies, PhD ’88
- 2015 Ruth M. Kleinpell, PhD ’91, MS ’88, BSN ’86
- 2014 Kathleen C. Buckwalter, PhD ’80
- 2013 Lynne T. Braun, PhD ’90, BSN ’78
- 2012 Janet L. Engstrom, PhD ’85, MS ’81
- 2011 Janet Larson, PhD ’85
- 2010 Dorothy M. Pringle, PhD ’82
- 2009 Karla Witt Nacion, PhD ’88, MS ’87
- 2008 Chrissie P. Kaponda, PhD ’96
- 2007 Carol E. Ferrans, PhD ’85, MS ’82
- 2006 Sabina Dambrauskas, MS ’76, BSN ’68
- 2005 Paula Meier, BSN ’71
- 2004 Sheila Dinotshe T’lou. PhD ’90
- 2003 Naeema Al-Gasseer, PhD ’90, MS ’87
- 2002 Katherine Camacho Carr, MS ’74
- 2001 Deborah McGuire, PhD ’87, MS ’81
- 2000 Phyllis Beck Kritek, PhD ’80, MS ’71
- 1999 Janice Mitchell Phillips, PhD ’93
- 1998 Janet Deatrick
- 1997 Marguerite Dixon
- 1996 Sharon Anderson
- 1995 Karen Allen, PhD ’92
- 1994 Elissa Brown
- 1993 Sally West Brooks
- 1992 Olga Church
- 1991 Mary Haack
- 1990 Lorna Mill Barrell
- 1988 Karen Kirchoff
- 1987 Barbara Logan
- 1986 Judith Chodil
- 1985 Edward Halloran
- 1984 Rita Froelich
- 1983 Jacquelyn H. Flaskerud
- 1982 Diane Adler
- 1981 Tita Corpuz
- 1980 Irene Alyn
- 1979 Lucille Davis
- 1978 Helen Grace, MS ’65