Past Award Winners
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award Winners
1995 Lou Jeanne Walton ’60
1996 Walter Reiner and Karl Lutze ’80H
1997 Valpo Faculty Jazz Trio
1999 Jane Claiborne ’01, ’04 MALS
2000 Judith Erwin-Neville and Valpo Gospel Choir
2001 Hugh McGuigan
2002 David Kehret
2003 Bill Marion Jr.
2004 Jane Bello-Brunson
2005 Asian American Association (ASA), Black Student Organization (BSO), and Latinos in Valparaiso for Excellence (LIVE)
2006 James Kingsland ’82 J.D.
2007 Alan Harre, Ph.D.
2008 Ryan Freeman-Jones ’08, ’10 M.S. and Gregory Jones
2009 Roy Austensen and Renu Juneja
2010 Alan Bloom and the Peace and Social Justice Symposium: Jane Bello-Brunson and Delphina (Del) Hopkins-Gillispie, co-founders
2011 Zhimin Lin
2012 Ivan Bodensteiner, NaTasha Henry ’04, ’06 MALS, and the Black Law Students Association
2013 Allison Schuette ’93, Liz Wuerffel ’00, and Holly Singh ’98, ’05 MALS
2014 Stacy Hoult-Saros ’15 GC
2015 Valpo Men’s Soccer Team, Larry Baas, and Zahra Nwabara
2016 Charles Schaefer
2017 Heath W. Carter and Faisal Kutty
2018 Geoffrey Heeren, LL.M., J.D., and Tatiana Hurtado ’04, ’10 MBA
2019 Christina Hearne ’15 (Crawley)
2020 Amanda Zelechoski, J.D, Ph.D.
2021 Honoring Lou Jeanne Walton ’60
2022 Richard Sévère, Ph.D.
2023 Michael Chikeleze, Ph.D.