Additional Notable Nominators |
Steve Allen |
Entertainer |
1990
|
Aris Anagnos |
President, Americans for Democratic Action |
1992
|
Nan Aron |
President, Alliance for Justice |
2000
|
Rabbi Leonard Beerman |
Activist/ Rabbi Emeritus Leo Baeck Temple |
2000
|
Ed Begley, Jr |
Actor/Activist |
1996
|
Griffin Bell |
Former U.S. Attorney General |
1992, 1994
|
Andrew K. Benton |
President, Pepperdine University |
2004 |
Alan and Marilyn Bergman |
Activists/Songwriters |
2000, 2002
|
Linda Biehl |
Amy Biehl Foundation |
2004 |
Richard W. Boone |
The Tides Foundation |
1990, 1991
|
David Bornstein |
Author |
2006 |
Dr. Peter G. Bourne |
President, American Association for World Health |
1991
|
Jerry Brown |
Former Governor of California |
1996
|
Daniel Burke |
President, Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. |
1992
|
Gaston Caperton |
President, The College Board |
2002
|
Steve Cheifetz |
Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust |
2000
|
Joseph Cherner |
SmokeFree Educational Services |
1998
|
Louis Clark |
Government Accountability Project |
1996
|
Geoffrey Cowan |
Dean, Annenberg School of Communications, USC |
2000
|
Karen Davis |
Director, Annenberg School of Communications, USC |
2002
|
Horace B. Deets |
American Association of Retired Persons |
1992, 1994
|
John N. Dornan |
Executive Director, Public School Forum |
2004 |
Roma Downey |
Actress |
2000
|
William Drayton |
Founder, ASHOKA |
2002
|
Thomas Eastham |
William Randolph Hearst Foundation |
2002
|
Dr. Dean Edell |
ABC Radio and Television |
2002
|
Julie Andrews Edwards |
Actress/Operation California |
1990
|
Mike Farrell |
Actor/Activist |
1991, 1994, 2000, 2004
|
Charlotte Flynn |
Chair, National Board of Gray Panthers |
1994
|
Richard Foos |
Entrepreneur/Activist |
2006 |
Peggy Funkhouser |
Retired President, Los Angeles Educational Partnership |
2004 |
Laura Geller |
Rabbi, Temple Emanuel |
2004 |
William German |
Executive Editor, San Francisco Chronicle |
1990
|
Dr. Faye Girsh |
President, The Hemlock Society |
2000
|
Danny Goldberg |
Chairman, Artemis Records |
2004 |
Whoopi Goldberg |
Actress |
1992
|
Donald E. Graham |
Publisher, Washington Post |
1992
|
Mark Green |
New York City Public Advocate |
1994
|
Colin Greer |
President, New World Foundation |
1990, 1991, 1994
|
Richard S. Gunther |
Activist |
1996, 2002
|
Carol P. Guyer |
President, James C. Penney Foundation |
1990, 1992
|
Monty Hall |
TV Personality/Activist |
1991
|
Pat Henry |
President, National PTA |
1992
|
Rev. Theodore Hesburgh |
University of Notre Dame |
1991, 1996
|
Elise Holliday |
Board Chair, Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services |
2006 |
Todd Howland |
Director, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights |
2006 |
Jose Huizar |
President, Los Angeles Unified School District |
2004 |
Lee Iacocca |
Chairman, Chrysler Corporation |
1992
|
Kenneth Jaffe |
Kenneth Jaffe, Inc. |
2002
|
Eric C. Johnson |
Chairman, Crail-Johnson Foundation |
2004 |
Allan K. Jonas |
Jonas & Associates |
2002
|
Judith Kaplan |
Activist |
1996, 2002, 2006
|
Dan Katzir |
The Broad Foundation |
2004 |
Jack Kemp |
Former Director, Empower America |
2002
|
David A. Kessler, MD |
Former Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration |
1998
|
Steven Kest |
Executive Director, ACORN |
2002, 2004, 2006
|
Dr. Jack Kevorkian |
Activist |
2002
|
Alan Khazei |
City Year |
2002
|
Vanessa Kirsch |
Founder and CEO, Year Up |
2006 |
C. Everett Koop, MD |
Former US Surgeon General |
1998
|
Wendy Kopp |
Founder, Teach For America |
2004 |
Mathilde Krim |
Chair, American Foundation for AIDS Research |
1994
|
Bill Lockyer |
Attorney General of California |
2002, 2004
|
Peter Lowy |
Chairman of the Board, University of Judaism |
2006 |
Li Lu |
Chinese Democracy Leader |
2002
|
Harriet Lyons |
Managing Editor, New York Daily News Magazine |
1991
|
Garfield Mahood |
Executive Director, Non-Smokers' Rights Association |
2002
|
George McGovern |
Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies |
1990, 1991
|
Vince Meldrum |
President, Earth Force, Inc. |
2006 |
Heath J. Meriwether |
Executive Editor, Detroit Free Press |
1990
|
Arthur C. Metcalfe |
Chairman, The Hemlock Society |
2000
|
Matthew Myers |
National Center for Tobacco Free Kids |
1998
|
Ralph Nader |
Consumer Activist |
1992, 1998, 2004
|
Aryeh Neier |
President, Open Society Institute |
2006 |
Eric Newton |
Managing Editor, Oakland Tribune |
1991
|
Karen Nussbaum |
US Department of Labor/ Activist |
1996, 2002
|
Jane Olson |
Human Rights Watch |
2000
|
Kathleen Owens |
President, Gwynedd-Mercy College |
2006 |
Lynda Palevsky |
Ploughshares Fund |
2000
|
Dr. Herbert Pardes |
President, New York-Presbyterian Hospital |
2002
|
Michael Pertschuk |
The Advocacy Institute |
1998
|
Drummond Pike |
President, Tides Foundation |
2000
|
Rabbi Sanford Ragins |
Leo Baeck Temple |
2000
|
Jose Ramos-Horta |
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate |
2006 |
George F. Regas |
The Regas Institute |
2000
|
Michelle Rhee |
President, The New Tacher Project |
2006 |
Ramona Ripston |
Executive Director, ACLU of Southern California |
2004 |
Vicky Riskin |
Human Rights Watch |
2002
|
Donald K. Ross |
Rockefeller Family Fund |
1994
|
Teresa Sanchez-Gordon |
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge |
2004 |
Rabbi David Saperstein |
Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism |
2000
|
Susan Sarandon |
Actress/MADRE |
1990
|
Dr. Steven A. Schroeder |
President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
1996, 2002
|
Robert A. Scott |
President, Ramapo College and Adelphi University |
2000, 2002, 2004
|
Pete Seeger |
Musician/Activist |
1992
|
Donna E. Shalala |
Chancellor, University of Wisconsin |
1990, 1992
|
Josette Shiner |
Managing Editor, Washington Times |
1994, 1996
|
Eunice Kennedy Shriver |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation |
1990
|
Sargent Shriver |
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation |
1990
|
Rosalind G. Stark |
Director, American Newspaper Publishers Assn. Foundation |
1992
|
Bryan A. Stevenson |
Equal Justice Initiative of America |
2002
|
Rose Styron |
Amnesty International |
1992
|
Mark Taylor |
Board President, Turner Network Television |
2006 |
Franklin A. Thomas |
President, The Ford Foundation |
1990, 1991, 1996
|
William C. Thompson, Jr |
Comptroller of the City of New York |
2004 |
Tonya Tull |
Beyond Shelter |
2000
|
Ted Turner |
Entrepreneur, Philanthropist |
2006 |
Antonio Villaraigosa |
Los Angeles City Councilmember |
2004 |
Milton Viorst |
Author |
1990, 1991, 1994
|
Richard Walden |
Operation USA |
2004 |
Gary Walker |
President, Public/Private Ventures |
2006 |
Thomas E. Warth |
Founder, Books for Africa |
2002
|
Bill Wassmuth |
Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment |
2000
|
Cora Weiss |
Samuel Rubin Foundation |
2000
|
John C. Whitehead |
Chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corp. |
2006 |
Dr. Roger Wilkins |
Professor, George Mason University |
1990
|
Harold Willens |
Activist |
1994
|
Andrew Young |
former US Ambassador to the UN; former Mayor of Atlanta |
2004 |
| ...plus hundreds of citizens encouraging those striving for positive social change |
