Each year the American Academy of Pediatrics honors a national official, either elected or appointed, in acknowledgement of outstanding contributions to America's mothers and children through the public policy process. 

Past recipients were:

1971

Sen. Warren Magnuson (D-WA) *

1974

Sen. Walter Mondale (D-MN)

1975

Rep. Paul Rogers (D-FL)

Emery Johnson, Director, Indian Health Service

1976

Rep. Edward Roybal (D-CA)

1977

Sen. Russell Long (D-LA) *

1978

Rep. Andrew Maguire (D-NJ)

1979

Sen. Charles McC. Mathias (R-MD)

1980

Rep. Tim Lee Carter (D-KY) *

Joan Claybrook, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

1981

Sen. Robert Dole (R-KS)

Sen. David Durenberger (R-MN)

1982

Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-AR)

Mrs. Betty Bumpers

1983

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)

1984

Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) *

Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS)

Sen. Paula Hawkins (R-FL)

Rep. George Miller (D-CA)

Rep. Rod Chandler (R-WA)

1985

Rep. John Chafee (R-RI) *

Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-CT)

1986

Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-HA)

1987

Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT)

Dr. C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General

1988

Sen. Robert Stafford (R-VT)

Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ)

Rep. Fortney H. (Pete) Stark (D-CA)

Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY)

Rep. Dale E. Kildee (D-MI)

Rep. Claude Pepper (D-FL) *

Anne Graham, Commissioner, Consumer Product Safety Commission

1989

Sen. Lawton Chiles *

Donald Ian Macdonald, MD, FAAP

Robert Windom, MD

Sen. Albert Gore, Jr. (D-TN)

Sen. George Mitchell (D-ME)

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)

Rep. William Lehman (D-FL)

1990

Julius Richmond, M.D., former Surgeon General

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)

Rep. Patricia Schroeder (D-CO)

1991

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)

Sen. Tim Wirth (D-CO)

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD)

Catherine Bertini, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Sarah and Jim Brady, Chairs, Handgun Control, Inc.

Vince L. Hutchins, M.D., Director, Maternal and Child Health Bureau *

1992

Rep. Robert T. Matsui (D-CA) *

1993

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)

Antonia Novello, MD, FAAP, US Surgeon General

Sen. Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI)

1994

Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT)

Sen. Paul Simon (D-IL)

1995

Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-OR)

Rep. Constance A. Morella (R-MD)

1996

Sen. John B. Breaux (D-LA)

Honorable David A. Kessler, MD, FAAP, Commissioner, Food & Drug Administration

1997

Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH)

Reed Hundt, Chairman Federal Communications Commission

Rep. John Porter (R-IL)

1998

Duane F. Alexander, MD, FAAP

M. Joycelyn Elders, MD, FAAP

Representative Jim Greenwood

Senator Jack Reed

1999

Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady

Diane DeGette (D-CO)

Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL)

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) *

2000

Ann Brown, Chair, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commision

Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ)

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)

Attorney General Janet Reno

2001

Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-IA)

Rep. Nancy Johnson (R-CT)

Rep. C. W. Bill Young (R-FL)

2002

David Satcher, MD, U.S Surgeon General

John Eisenbert, MD, M. B. A., Director and Lisa Simpson, MD, Deputy Director Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality *

Rep. Anna Eshoo, (D-CA)

2003

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)

Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI)

Walt Orenstein, M.D., FAAP, Director, National Immunization Program at the CDC Rotary International

2004

Mark McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration

2005

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA)

Rep. David Obey (D-WI)

Rep. Ralph Regula (R-OH)

2006

Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT)

Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR)

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

* Deceased

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