
2025 Jean Schoenlank
2024 Kat Britt
2023 Katie Blackwood
2022 Amanda "Sky" Harris
2021 Barbara Festa & Laura Riffaud
2020 Beth Fulton
2019 Mary Connelly
2018 Jeanne Froelich
2017 Jeanne Elmuccio
2016 Barbara Wright
2015 Johanna Herudek
2014 Sharon Putney
2013 Peggy DiSunno
2012 Carol Schulthesis
2011 Lisbet Kline Duponte
This annual award honors Harriette Walters’ extraordinary leadership and service to Region 15. For more than 40 years she served in musical, educational, and administrative regional and international roles and helped establish a benchmark for leadership. Her passion for encouraging and developing leaders in others is a central reason this award was created in her honor.
The award recognizes a Region 15 leader whose contributions positively affect the region and who demonstrates loyalty, empowerment, accountability, diversity, excellence, respect, sharing, honesty, integrity, and proaction.
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