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.