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Lincoln Leadership Prize

Past Recipients

Sandra Day O'Connor

2006 Recipient

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States… Read More

2008 Lincoln Leadership Price Recipient - Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

2008 Recipient

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a man whose compassion and strength of conviction sustained his campaigns for peace and equality in South Africa… Read More

Captain James A. Lovell, Jr.

2010 Recipient

Captain James A. Lovell , Among America's heroic astronauts, Lovel is regarded as a leader of near mythic proportion, maintaining calm and discipline aboard Apollo 13… Read More

Tim Russert

2011 Recipient

Tim Russert is remembered by most of us for his objective brand of journalism exhibited through his work as NBC Washington Bureau Chief and host of Meet the Press… Read More

Lech Wałęsa

2012 Recipient

Former Polish President Lech Wałęsa helped lead his country to a new era of freedom and became the first emocratically elected leader in Polish postwar history… Read More

Bill Clinton

2013 Recipient

William Jefferson Clinton was the first Democratic president in six decades… Read More

Steven Spielberg

2014 Recipient

Steven Spielberg, one of the entertainment industry’s most successful and influential filmmakers, is a principal partner of DreamWorks Studios… Read More

2015 Lincoln Leadership Price Recipients - The Little Rock Nine

The Little Rock Nine

2015 Recipients

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring unconstitutional any and all laws, which established or maintained segregation in schools. In 1957, in response to the ruling, nine black students, working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), registered to attend Little Rock Central High School. Read More

Doris Kearns Goodwin

2016 Recipient

Doris Kearns Goodwin is a world-renowned presidential historian, public speaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning author...Read More

Neil deGrasse Tyson

2017 Recipient

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D., is an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History and the first occupant of the Frederick P. Rose Directorship at the Hayden Planetarium...Read More

Tony Blair

2018 Recipient

Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is widely recognized around the world for his stewardship of the United Kingdom through an especially important period in its history....Read More

George W. Bush

2019 Recipient

George W. Bush served as 43rd President of the United States of America from 2001-2009....Read More

David M. Rubenstein

2020 Recipient

David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman of global investment firm The Carlyle Group. ....Read More