Emmett Leahy Award
A plaque bearing Medallion with an embossed image of Emmett Leahyl facing right in profile.
CountryUSA
Presented byEmmett Leahy Award Committee
First awarded1967
Websitehttps://emmettleahyaward.org/

The Emmett Leahy Award is given annually to individuals who have had major impact on the field of information management. The award has been given since 1967, and honors Emmett Leahy, a pioneer in records management.

Organization

The award is sponsored by Preservica, a digital preservation company.[1] The award was formerly sponsored by the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA).[2][3]

The Emmett Leahy Award Committee is responsible for selecting the annual Emmett Leahy Award recipient. The committee is independent and not associated with any other organization. It is composed of the past winners of the award.[4]

List of Recipients

1999 to present

Award winners since 1999 are:[1]

Year Recipient Country Notes
2022 Joan Boadas Catalonia Municipal archivist of Girona[5]
2021 Laura Millar Canada [6][7]
2020 Dinesh Katre India [8][9][10]
2019 Simon Chu[11] Hong Kong [12]
2018 Trudy Peterson United States [13]
2017 Richard Marciano United States [14]
2016 Adrian Brown United Kingdom [15]
2015 Victoria Lemieux Canada [16]
2014 Julie McLeod United Kingdom [17]
2013 Galina Datskovsky United States [18]
2012 David Giaretta United Kingdom [19]
2011 Jason R. Baron United States National Archives and Records Administration.[20][3]
2010 Adrian Cunningham Australia
2009 Maria Guercio Italy
2008 Kenneth Thibodeau United States
2007 Anne Thurston United Kingdom
2006 Luciana Duranti Canada
2005 Charles Dollar United States
2004 Eugenia Brumm United States
2003 Bruce Miller Canada
2002 Christine Ardern Canada
2001 John T. Phillips United States
2000 Mary F. Robek United States
1999 John McDonald Canada National Archives of Canada. Chair of the International Council on Archives' Committee on Electronic Records

1985 to 1998

Award winners before 1999 are:[21]

Year Recipient Country Notes
1998 David G. Goodman
1997 James G. Coulson United States Huron Consulting Group. Design, development and improvement of electronic records and information management systems.
1996 Peter A. Smith Australia National records management course; Standards Australia IT/21 Records Management Committee,
1995 Frank B. Evans United States National Archives and Records Service; historian, archival/educator, and records manager administrator.
1994 Donald S. Skupsky United States President of Information Requirements Clearinghouse in Denver, Colorado
1993 E. Mark Langemo United States Professor Emeritus at the University of North Dakota.
1992 Patricia Acton
1991 Robert F. Williams United States Founder and President of Cohasset Associates
1990 Ira A. Penn United States Senior Management Analyst with the U.S. Federal Government.
1989 Anneliese Arenburg Canada Consulting work in government and private sector.
1988 Fred V. Diers United States Consultant; 1970s records management software
1987 Artel Ricks
1986 John W. Porter
1985 Don M. Avedon

1967 to 1980

The Emmett Leahy Award was created by Rodd Exelbert, founder of Information and Records Management magazine. The award was for "a man or woman whose unique contributions to records control, filing, and information retrieval have advanced the information and records management profession." It was named after Emmett Leahy (1910–1964) with the permission of Betty Leahy, his widow. The first award was presented to Ed Ross at the 1967 ARMA Annual Meeting. In 1980 Exelbert left the IRM magazine, and ARMA decided that the award should no longer be presented at its meeting, since ARMA did not select the recipients. The first version of the award therefore ended that year.[22]

Koenig receiving the award
Year Recipient Country Notes
1980 Gerald F. Brown United States Corporate Records Manager Missouri Pacific Railroad
1979 Robert C. Woodall United States Chief, Records Management Division, State of California.
1978 Benjamin F. Oliver United States Director, Program Evaluation Division, Office of Records Management, National Archives and Records Service
1977 William L. Rofes United States Manager-Record Analysis and Control, IBM
1976 Edward Johnson United States Chief, Bureau of Archives and Records Management, Florida Department of State
1975 Helen Harden United States Corporate Records Manager, Frito-Lay
1974 Harold J. "Mark" Koenig United States Assistant Archivist for Records Management, National Archives and Records Service
1973 Donald F. Evans United States Records Manager, Union Oil Company of California. ARMA International President 1970-1971
1972 William Warren United States Supervising Management Analyst, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
1971 Loretta Kiersky United States Director, Central Research Library, Air Reduction Company[23]
1970 Charles MacBeth United States Manager, Corporate Records Management, Hughes Aircraft Company.[24]
1969 Everett O. Alldredge United States Assistant Archivist for Records Management at the National Archives and Records Service[2]
1968 William Benedon United States Director, Corporate Administration Services, Lockheed Corporation[25][26]
1967 Edward Rosse United States Supervising social insurance operations analyst of the Social Security Administration

See also

References

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