ILA Awards

Listening Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame Award is presented to individuals who are recognized for notable achievements involving Listening in academic, business, or other settings who is a current member of the ILA. Selection to the listening Hall of Fame is the highest award of the Association. Winners have contributed to the advancement of effective Listening over a number of years.

2024 - Sandra Bodin-Lerner

2023 - Susan Timm

2021 - Corine Jansen

2020 - Helen Ralston

2019 - Charles Veenstra

2018 - Helen Meldrum

2017 - Debra Worthington

2016 - Laura Janusik & Jennifer Grau

2015 - Margarete Imhof

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2012 - Dick Halley

2011 - Rick Bommelje, Michael Gilbert, & Tom Wirkus

2010 - Edie Cole & Carole Grau

2009 - Nanette Johnson-Curiskis

2008 - Melissa Beall

2007 - Warren Gore,

2006 - Bob Bohlken & Kathy Thompson

2005 - Weslynn Martin

2004 - Margaret Fitch-Hauser

2003 - Judi Brownell

2002 - Charles V. Roberts

2001 - Sheila Bentley

2000 - Ethel Glenn

1999 - Wayne Bond

1998 - Nadine Marsnik

1997 - Harvey Weiss, 1997

1995 - Judi Brownell

1994 - Michael Purdy

1993 - Belle Ruth Witkin

1992 - William Arnold

1991 - Robert Bostrom & Alice Ridge

1990 - Paul Friedman

1989 - Donald Spearritt

1988 - Carolyn Coakley-Hickerson & Kittie Watson

1986 - Florence Wolff

1985 - Lyman K. "Manny" Steil & Andrew Wolvin

1984 - Pau Bagwell, Larry Barker, & Ella Erway

1983 - Charles T. Brown & Carl Weaver

1981 - Seth Fessenden, Harry Goldstein, Sara Lundsteen, Carl Rogers, Wesley Wiksell, & Miriam Wilt

1980 - James I. Brown, Sam Duker, Ralph Nichols, & Paul Rankin