AAP Child Health Advocate Award

PAST RECIPIENTS

2008:   Ruth Ota, RN
               Public Health Nurse, State of Hawaii

2007:   Margaret Blood, MPA
               Child Health Advocate, State of Massachusetts

2006:   Rod Blagojevich
               Governor, State of Illinois

            Janet D. Howell
            Senator, State of Virginia

2005:   Frederick H. Cohen, JD
               Principal, Litigation Group, Goldberg Kohn, State of Illinois

            David J. Chizewer, JD
            Principal, Litigation Group, Goldberg Kohn, State of Illinois

            John Bouman, JD
            Advocacy Director, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, State of Illinois

            Stephanie Altman, JD
            Health and Disability Advocates, State of Illinois

            Thomas Yates, JD
            Health and Disability Advocates, State of Illinois

            Louis Bullock, JD
            Bullock & Bullock, State of Oklahoma

            Patricia Bullock, JD
            Bullock & Bullock, State of Oklahoma

2004:  The Honorable Diane D. Denish
            Lieutenant Governor, State of New Mexico

2003:  The Honorable Judith S. Kaye
            Chief Judge, New York State Court of Appeals

2002:  David W. Hood
           Secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals

            The Honorable Vi S. Simpson
               Senator, State of Indiana

2001:   Douglas E. Bryant
            Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control

            The Honorable Jim Ryan
            Attorney General, State of Illinois

            The Honorable Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
            Senator, State of Florida

2000:   The Honorable Christine Gregoire
               Attorney General, State of Washington

            The Honorable Michael Moore
            Attorney General, State of Mississippi

1999:   The Honorable Donald E. Williamson, MD
            State Health Officer, State of Alabama

1998:   The Honorable Connie B. Binsfeld
            Lieutenant Governor, State of Michigan

1997:   The Honorable Howard Dean, MD
            Governor, State of Vermont

1996:   The Honorable Roy Romer
            Governor, State of Colorado

1995:   The Honorable Mark Kennedy
            Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

1994:   The Honorable James B. Hunt, Jr.
            Governor, State of North Carolina

1993:   Patricia Nicol, MD
            Director, Division of Maternal and Child Health, State of Kentucky

1992:   Richard Westgard
            Program Manager, Division of Children and Family Services, State of Washington

1991:   The Honorable Mamoru Yamasaki
            Senator, State of Hawaii

For additional information regarding the Child Health Advocate Award, please contact Rachel Poulin in the Division of State Government Affairs at 800/433-9016 ext 7799 or at stgov@aap.org.