Global ATHENA Leadership Award® Recipients

Supporting, Honoring and Developing Women Leaders

2011

Maureen Kempston Darkes
President, GM Latin America, Africa and Middle East


Erika Harold

Miss America 2003 

Attorney at Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C. 

Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP)
Barbara Kasoff, President, WIPP

ATHENA Lifetime Achievement Award

  Dr. Mulu Muleta

Senior Medical Advisor, Women and Health Alliance International

Jessica Faye Carter
Founder & CEO, Nette Media

Carolyn Kepcher
Founder, Work Her Way

KPMG LLP

Marie C. Wilson
Founder, The White House Project

2007

Shinae Chun
Director of the Women's Bureau

Martha Mertz
Founder ATHENA International

Karen Gore Schiff

2006

Sarah Weddington
Attorney Roe v. Wade

Her Excellency Dr. Inonge Mbikusita-Lewanika
Ambassador of the Republic of Zambia to the U.S.

2005

Sally Armstrong
Human rights activist, documentary filmmaker
and Editor-at-large of Chatelaine magazine

Kay Koplovitz
Founder of USA Networks and the first woman network
president in television history

2004

Marilyn Carlson Nelson
Chairwoman and CEO, Carlson Companies, Inc.

Lynn Myers
General Manager, Pontiac-GMC Division, General Motors

2003

Charlotte Beers
Former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy
and Public Affairs

Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak
Chairwoman of UAE General Women's Union

2002

Lynn Martin
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor

Guo Junqin
Chinese businesswoman and philanthropist

2001

Frances Hesselbein
Editor-in-Chief of Leader to Leader
Presidential Medal of Freedom winner

2000

Patricia Schroeder
Former 12-term U.S. Congresswoman

1999

Laura Liswood
Founder, Council of Women World Leaders

1998

Sherian Grace Cadoria
Brigadier General USA (Ret.)

1997

Muriel Siebert
President, Muriel Siebert & Company, Inc.

1996

Nancy Woodhull
Executive Director, Freedom Forum Media Studies Center
previous Co-founding Editor of USA Today

1995

Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate Justice U.S. Supreme Court

1994

Nina Totenberg
Legal Affairs Correspondent for NPR