| Emmett Leahy Award | |
| Presenter: | Emmett Leahy Award Committee |
| Country: | USA |
| Year: | 1967 |
| Website: | https://emmettleahyaward.org/ |
The Emmett Leahy Award is given annually to individuals who have had major impact on the field of information management.The award has been given since 1967, and honors Emmett Leahy, a pioneer in records management.
The award is sponsored by Preservica, a digital preservation company.The award was formerly sponsored by the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA).[1]
The Emmett Leahy Award Committee is responsible for selecting the annual Emmett Leahy Award recipient. The committee is independent and not associated with any other organization. It is composed of the past winners of the award.[2]
Award winners since 1999 are:
| Year | Recipient | Country | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Nancy McGovern | United States | [3] | |
| 2022 | Joan Boadas | Catalonia | Municipal archivist of Girona[4] [5] | |
| 2021 | Laura Millar | Canada | [6] | |
| 2020 | Dinesh Katre | India | [7] [8] | |
| 2019 | Simon Chu[9] | Hong Kong | [10] | |
| 2018 | United States | [11] | ||
| 2017 | Richard Marciano | United States | [12] | |
| 2016 | United Kingdom | [13] | ||
| 2015 | Canada | [14] | ||
| 2014 | Julie McLeod | United Kingdom | [15] | |
| 2013 | Galina Datskovsky | United States | [16] | |
| 2012 | David Giaretta | United Kingdom | [17] | |
| 2011 | Jason R. Baron | United States | National Archives and Records Administration.[18] | |
| 2010 | Australia | |||
| 2009 | Maria Guercio | Italy | ||
| 2008 | United States | |||
| 2007 | Anne Thurston | United Kingdom | ||
| 2006 | Canada | |||
| 2005 | United States | |||
| 2004 | Eugenia Brumm | United States | ||
| 2003 | Bruce Miller | Canada | ||
| 2002 | Christine Ardern | Canada | ||
| 2001 | John T. Phillips | United States | ||
| 2000 | Mary F. Robek | United States | ||
| 1999 | John McDonald | Canada | National Archives of Canada. Chair of the International Council on Archives' Committee on Electronic Records |
Award winners before 1999 are:
| Year | Recipient | Country | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | David G. Goodman | |||
| 1997 | United States | Huron Consulting Group. Design, development and improvement of electronic records and information management systems. | ||
| 1996 | Australia | National records management course; Standards Australia IT/21 Records Management Committee, | ||
| 1995 | United States | National Archives and Records Service
| ||
| 1994 | United States | President of Information Requirements Clearinghouse in Denver, Colorado | ||
| 1993 | United States | Professor Emeritus at the University of North Dakota. | ||
| 1992 | ||||
| 1991 | Robert F. Williams | United States | Founder and President of Cohasset Associates | |
| 1990 | United States | Senior Management Analyst with the U.S. Federal Government. | ||
| 1989 | Canada | Consulting work in government and private sector. | ||
| 1988 | United States | Consultant; 1970s records management software | ||
| 1987 | ||||
| 1986 | John W. Porter | |||
| 1985 |
The Emmett Leahy Award was created by Rodd Exelbert, founder of Information and Records Management magazine.The award was for "a man or woman whose unique contributions to records control, filing, and information retrieval have advanced the information and records management profession."It was named after Emmett Leahy (1910–1964) with the permission of Betty Leahy, his widow.The first award was presented to Ed Ross at the 1967 ARMA Annual Meeting.In 1980 Exelbert left the IRM magazine, and ARMA decided that the award should no longer be presented at its meeting, since ARMA did not select the recipients.The first version of the award therefore ended that year.
| Year | Recipient | Country | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Gerald F. Brown | United States | Corporate Records Manager Missouri Pacific Railroad | |
| 1979 | Robert C. Woodall | United States | Chief, Records Management Division, State of California. | |
| 1978 | Benjamin F. Oliver | United States | Director, Program Evaluation Division, Office of Records Management, National Archives and Records Service | |
| 1977 | William L. Rofes | United States | ||
| 1976 | Edward Johnson | United States | Chief, Bureau of Archives and Records Management, Florida Department of State | |
| 1975 | Helen Harden | United States | Corporate Records Manager, Frito-Lay | |
| 1974 | Harold J. "Mark" Koenig | United States | Assistant Archivist for Records Management, National Archives and Records Service | |
| 1973 | Donald F. Evans | United States | Records Manager, Union Oil Company of California. ARMA International President 1970-1971 | |
| 1972 | William Warren | United States | ||
| 1971 | Loretta Kiersky | United States | Director, Central Research Library, Air Reduction Company | |
| 1970 | Charles MacBeth | United States | Manager, Corporate Records Management, Hughes Aircraft Company. | |
| 1969 | United States | Assistant Archivist for Records Management at the National Archives and Records Service | ||
| 1968 | United States | Director, Corporate Administration Services, Lockheed Corporation | ||
| 1967 | Edward Rosse | United States | Supervising social insurance operations analyst of the Social Security Administration |