ACA Distinguished Service Award
In 2002 the Board of Regents established the Distinguished Service Award to acknowledge extraordinary services rendered to the Academy by its members. It recognizes exemplary, outstanding, or extended and sustained service to the Academy. Honorees may be recognized for exceptional achievement in a particular service area, for service to the Academy that goes well beyond expectation, for outstanding leadership, or for significant accomplishment over a sustained period of time. Nominees must be or at one time have been a member of the Academy, and the award may be given posthumously.
The Award
The Distinguished Service Award consists of a plaque, a special lapel pin, and citation of the award recipient’s services on the ACA website.
Nomination and Confirmation
The Distinguished Service Award Committee, chaired by the Vice-President, reviews the nominations. If the committee endorses a nomination, then the issue goes before the Board of Regents at the Mid-Winter board meeting. The award is confirmed only after an affirmative majority vote by the Board of Regents.
Presentation
The President presents the Distinguished Service Award at the ACA luncheon or business meeting at the annual joint meeting of SAA/ACA (usually in August).
Additional Rules
The ACA is under no obligation to present the Distinguished Service Award in any particular year, and in any case shall never give more than two such awards in one calendar year.
Nominations
To make a nomination, submit it to the ACA Secretariat at office@certifiedarchivists.org. Nominations received by April 15 are eligible for consideration by the Distinguished Service Award Committee for that year. Nominations should include either additional supporting letters or the names of the other persons to contact for further information concerning the nominee. Each candidate shall be considered individually and confidentially and will be judged according to the criteria listed above.
Past Recipients of the ACA Distinguished Servants Award
- 2022 Frank Evans
- 2021 Todd Welch and Michael Bullington
- 2020 James T. Havron and Louis Jones
- 2019 Linda Hocking and Becky Haglund Tousey
- 2018 Mott Linn and Gregor Trinkaus-Randall
- 2017 Daphne O. DeLeon
- 2016 Maygene Daniels and Jane Kenamore
- 2015 J. Frank Cook and James B. Rhoads
- 2014 Gregory Hunter
- 2013 Mary Elizabeth Ruwell
- 2012 Martin Levitt
- 2011 David B. Gracy II and Michael E. Holland
- 2010 Jane Nokes and Cindy Smolovik
- 2009 Carla Summers and Edie Hedlin
- 2008 John Fleckner and Charles Schultz
- 2007 Trudy Huskamp Peterson and Willow Powers
- 2006 Elizabeth Adkins and James B. Byers
- 2005 Anne P. Diffendal
- 2004 Leon C. Miller
- 2003 Susan Maclin