AACC Leadership Award Recipients

2012	Belle Wheelan President, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
2011	Kay McClenney Director, Center for Community College Student Engagement Community College Leadership Program The University of Texas at Austin
	Byron McClenney Project Director, Community College Leadership Program The University of Texas at Austin
2010	Christine Johnson McPhail Managing Partner, The McPhail Group Emerita Professor, Morgan State University, MD
2009	Walter G. Bumphus A.M. Aikin Regents Chair in Junior and Community College Education Leadership, The University of Texas at Austin
2008	J. William Wenrich Chancellor Emeritus Dallas County Community College District, TX
2008	Rod A. Risley Executive Director Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society of the Two Year College, MS
2007	Zelema Harris President Emeritus, Parkland College, IL
	Mark David Milliron Suanne Davis Roueche Endowed Fellow, Senior Lecturer, and Director National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD), The University of Texas at Austin
2006	Mildred B. Bulpitt Assistant to Chancellor for Special Projects Maricopa Community College District, AZ
2005	Shirley B. Gordon President Emeritus Highline Community College, WA
2004	Lawrence W. Tyree Professor and Director Institute of Higher Education, University of Florida
	Alfredo G. de los Santos Jr. Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, College of Education Arizona State University
2003	R. Jan LeCroy Chancellor Emeritus Dallas County Community College District, TX
2002	Johnas "Jeff" Hockaday Chancellor Emeritus Pima Community College District, AZ
	David Ponitz President Emeritus Sinclair Community College, OH
2001	David Pierce President Emeritus American Association of Community Colleges, DC
2000	Dale Campbell Professor and Director Institute of Higher Education University of Florida
1998	Donald Phelps W.K. Kellogg Regents Professor The University of Texas at Austin
1997	Suanne Davis Roueche Director National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, TX
1996	Anne E. Mulder Program Professor of Higher Education Center for the Advancement of Education Nova Southeastern University, FL
	George B. Vaughan Associate Director ACCLAIM North Carolina State University
	Paul A. Elsner Chancellor Maricopa County Community College District, AZ
1995	Arthur Cohen Founding Director ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges and President Center for the Study of Community Colleges, CA
	Carolyn Desjardins Co-founder and Executive Director National Institute for Leadership Development, AZ
	Robert McCabe President Miami-Dade Community College District, FL
1994	Richard Alfred Associate Professor for the Center of the Study of Higher Education University of Michigan
	George Baker Joseph D. Moore Professor of Community College Leadership College of Education and Psychology North Carolina State University
	Terry O’Banion Executive Director League for Innovation in the Community College, CA
1993	Dale Parnell President Emeritus American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, DC
1992	Edmund J. Gleazer, Jr. President Emeritus American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, DC
1991	The Honorable Wilhelmina R. Delco Speaker Pro Tempore State Legislature, TX
1990	K. Patricia Cross Conner Professor of Higher Education University of California at Berkeley
1989	Ernest L. Boyer President Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, NJ
1988	S.V. Martorana Professor of Education Pennsylvania State University
1987	James L. Wattenbarger Director and Professor Institute of Higher Education University of Florida
1986	John E. Roueche Professor and Director Community College Leadership Program, The University of Texas at Austin
1985	Margaret Mosal Executive Director Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, MS
1984	Bill J. Priest Chancellor Emeritus Dallas County Community College District, TX
	Norman E. Watson Chancellor Emeritus Coast Community College District, CA
1983	Joseph P. Cosand Former Director Center for the Study of Higher Education, MI
1982	C. C. Colvert Professor Emeritus The University of Texas at Austin
	B. Lamar Johnson Professor of Higher Education University of California at Los Angeles