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2023
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

NFPW President: Julie Campbell
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Kim Loehr
\n<\/strong>Newsmaker of the Year: Kristen Green, The New York Times best-selling author and former Richmond Times-Dispatch reporter
\nPresident: Sande Snead
\n_______________________________________<\/p>\n

2022
\n<\/strong>Newsmaker of the Year: Luisa Igloria, State\u2019s 20th Poet Laureate
\nPresident: Michele Cook
\n_______________________________________<\/p>\n

2021<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Patty Kruszewski
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Antionette V. Irving, Sheriff of the City of Richmond
\nPresident: Michele Cook
\n_______________________________________<\/p>\n

2020<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Frances Broaddus Crutchfield
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Christy Coleman, CEO, American Civil War Museum
\nPresident: Julie Grimes
\n_______________________________________
\n2019<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Cathy Jett
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Kim Drew Wright, founder, Liberal Women of Chesterfield County & Beyond, writer
\nPresident: Julie Grimes
\n_______________________________________
\n2018<\/strong>
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Del. Danica Roem, one of the nation\u2019s first openly transgender elected officials, former journalist
\nPresident: Julie Campbell
\n_______________________________________
\n2017<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Deborah Padgett
\nPresident: Cynthia Price
\n_______________________________________
\n2016<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Bonnie Atwood (also national COA runner-up)
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Virginia Tech\u2019s Flint, Michigan, Water Study Research Team
\nPresident: Gail Kent
\n_______________________________________
\n2015<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of the Year: Linda Evans
\nPresident: Gail Kent
\n_______________________________________
\n2014<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of the Year: Julie Campbell
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Marietta McCarty, philosopher and New York Times best selling author
\nPresident: Bonnie Atwood
\n_______________________________________
\n2013<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: None named
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Susan Greenbaum, singer, songwriter, volunteer
\nPresident: Bonnie Atwood
\n________________________________________
\n2012<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Cynthia Price (also winner of NFPW Communicator of Achievement)
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Robin Abbott & Katherine Waddell, Founders, Women\u2019s Strike Force
\nPresident: Cathy Jett
\n_______________________________________
\n2011<\/strong>
\nDistinguished Service Award: Gwen Woolf
\nAnnounced October 2011 in Richmond
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Rowena Fullinwider, business woman
\nPresident: Cathy Jett<\/p>\n

\n

2010<\/strong>
\n<\/b>Communicator of Achievement: Barbara Crookshanks
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Doris Buffett, philanthropist
\nPresident: Gwen Woolf<\/p>\n

\n

2009<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Pam Stallsmith
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Lucinda Roy, author and Virginia Tech faculty
\nDistinguished Service Award: Norma Pierce
\nPresident: Gwen Woolf<\/p>\n

\n

2008<\/strong>
\nDistinguished Service Award:
\nCynthia Price and Pam Stallsmith, announced March 29 in Staunton
\nNewsmaker of the Year: First Lady of Virginia Anne Holton
\nPresident: Sande Snead<\/p>\n

\n

2007<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement:
\nMary Jane King, announced September 2007 in Richmond
\nPresident: Sande Snead
\n[No Newsmaker named for 2007]<\/p>\n

\n

2006<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement:
\nMargaret Mock, announced fall 2006 in Roanoke
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Nikki Giovanni, poet, professor, civil rights activist
\nPresident: Julie Campbell<\/p>\n

\n

2005<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement:
\nNancy Beasley, announced fall 2005 in Fredericksburg
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Geraldine Brooks, novelist and journalist
\nPresident: Julie Campbell<\/p>\n

\n

2004<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Norma Lugar
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Rita McClenny, head, Virginia Film Office
\nPresident: Cynthia Price<\/p>\n

\n

2003<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Mary Ann Johnson
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Suzanne Lebsock, author, professor, historian
\nPresident: Cynthia Price<\/p>\n

\n

2002<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Gwen Woolf
\nNewsmaker of the Year: “Virginia communicators who so ably and heroically served the public during the crisis following Sept. 11, 2001.” Representatives of state, federal, and private agencies:
\nJanet L. Clements, Department of Emergency Management;
\nSusan Hansen, the Pentagon;
\nBill Harrison, American Red Cross
\nPresident: Pam Stallsmith<\/p>\n

\n

2001<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Dorothy Livingston Ulich Troubetzkoy
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Adriana Trigiani, novelist
\nPresident: Pam Stallsmith<\/p>\n

\n

2000<\/strong>
\nDistinguished Service Award: Cynthia Price
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Roxane Gilmore, first lady of Virginia and Randolph-Macon College professor who continued teaching during her husband’s tenure
\nPresident: Mary Ann Johnson<\/p>\n

\n

1999<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Pauline Mitchell
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Katharine Lee Reid, director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
\nPresident: Mary Ann Johnson<\/p>\n

\n

1998<\/strong>
\nDistinguished Service Award: Barbara Ball
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Martha Steger
\nNewsmakers of the Year: Tim Reid and Daphne Maxwell Reid, New Millennium Studios of Petersburg
\nPresident: Lynn Nystrom<\/p>\n

\n

1997<\/strong>
\nDistinguished Service Award: Martha Steger
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Louise Seals
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Meyera E. Oberndorf, mayor of Virginia Beach
\nPresident: Lynn Nystrom<\/p>\n

\n

1996<\/strong>
\nDistinguished Service Award: Susan Trulove
\nNewsmaker of the Year:
\nEmily Couric, state senator, Virginia’s 25th District, elected 1995 and had an unusually successful freshman year
\nPresident: Susan Winiecki<\/p>\n

\n

1995<\/strong>
\nDistinguished Service Award: Lynn Nystrom
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Patricia D. Cornwell, best-selling crime novelist
\nPresident: Susan Winiecki<\/p>\n

\n

1994<\/strong>
\nDistinguished Service Award: Pauline Mitchell
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Lillian Vernon, entrepreneur
\nPresident: Martha Steger<\/p>\n

\n

1993<\/strong>
\nDistinguished Service Award: Susan J. Winiecki
\nCommunicator of Achievement: Melodie Davis
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Navy Lt. Paula Coughlin, Tailhook scandal whistle blower
\nPresident: Martha Steger<\/p>\n

\n

1992<\/strong>
\nCommunicator of Achievement: George Crutchfield
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Patricia Kluge, Albemarle County businesswoman and philanthropist
\nPresident: Louise Seals<\/p>\n

\n

1991<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Norma Pierce
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Dr. Georgeanna Seegar Jones, pioneer in infertility research
\nPresident: Louise Seals<\/p>\n

\n

1990<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Mary C. Holliman
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Elizabeth B. Lacy, first woman on the Virginia Supreme Court
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1989<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Gail Benge Kent
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Jeannie Baliles, first lady of Virginia and leader in literacy programs
\nPresident: Carolyn West<\/p>\n

\n

1988<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Liz Vantrease
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Brig. Gen. Gail M. Reals, first woman general in the Marine Corps and first female base commander in the corps
\nPresident: Carolyn West<\/p>\n

\n

1987<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: June O. Nicholson
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Eva S. Teig, Virginia secretary of health and human resources
\nPresident: Mary Jane King<\/p>\n

\n

1986<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Louise Seals
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Margaret Sanger Marston
\nPresident: Mary Jane King<\/p>\n

\n

1985<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year:
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Mary Sue Terry, activist Virginia attorney general
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1984<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Joan Deppa
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Anne Dobie Peebles
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1983<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Linda K. Ganschinietz
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Dr. Betty J. Diener, outspoken and combative Virginia secretary of commerce and resources
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1982<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Loretta Gillespie
\nNewsmaker of the Year:
\nPresident: LeeNora Everett<\/p>\n

\n

1981<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: LeeNora Everett
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Marianne C. Stanley
\nPresident: LeeNora Everett<\/p>\n

\n

1980<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Pat Royal Perkinson
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Jessie Rattley
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1979<\/strong>
\nPress Women of the Year: Liz Vantrease and Carolyn Hines West
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Dr. Jean L. Harris, first woman and first African-American to serve in the Virginia cabinet
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1978<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Trudy Willis
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Elizabeth Taylor Warner, Academy Award-winning actress and wife of John Warner, who was elected U.S. Senator from Virginia in November 1978
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1977<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Sylvia Costen
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Virginia’s eight women Episcopal priests: the Revs. Alison Cheek, Patricia Merchant, Constance Chandler Ward, Mary B. Anthony, Blanche Powell, Margaret Jefferson, Gloria K. Bergerich and Georgia H. Shoberg.
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1976<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Peggy Pond
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Del. Eleanor P. Sheppard, former mayor of Richmond, delegate to Virginia General Assembly and the first woman to serve as chair of a General Assembly committee
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1975<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Ann L. Merriman
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Annie Dillard, Pulitzer prize-winning author of “A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” and former professor at Hollins College
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1974<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Lois D. Watkins
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Rae Ely, leader of the group to save historic Green Springs from strip mining
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1973<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Myrtle S. Barnes
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Helen Chenery Tweedy, owner of Secretariat, Triple Crown Winner, and Riva Ridge, winner of the 1972 Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, from her Meadow Farm at Doswell
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1972<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Ruby Jean Phillips Uhler
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Jinks Holton, first lady of Virginia
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1971<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Marge Fisher
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Vivian Carter Mason, Norfolk civil rights leader
\nPresident: Myrtle Barnes<\/p>\n

\n

1970<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Madeline W. Livesay
\nNewsmakers of the Year: Virginia Wives of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action in Southeast Asia
\nPresident: Myrtle Barnes<\/p>\n

\n

1969<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Pat Royal Perkinson
\nNewsmaker of the Year: Ann H. Kilgore of Hampton, only woman mayor in the state
\nPresident: Marge Fisher<\/p>\n

\n

1968<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Ruth H. Barner
\nWoman of Distinction: Mrs. Ruth Shuey
\nPresident: Marge Fisher<\/p>\n

\n

1967<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Agnes Cooke
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1966<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Ulrich Troubetzkoy
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1965<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Virginia Biggins
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1964<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Vivien Bodeau
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1963<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Ulrich Troubetzkoy
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1962<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Helen Mugler Stuart White
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1961<\/strong>
\nPress Woman of the Year: Valerie Edinger
\nPresident:<\/p>\n

\n

1959\u20131960<\/strong>
\nPresident: Pat Bryant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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