The Eisenhower Medal For Leadership and Service
Established by the Eisenhower Fellowships’ board of trustees in 1988, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service is awarded annually to a business leader, statespersons, or other public figure who has achieved, through direct personal contacts across boundaries, widely-recognized advances toward President Eisenhower’s vision of peace and productivity through person-to-person international dialogue.
The first Eisenhower medals were presented to two of the organization’s founding trustees: Walter H. Annenberg, Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and Thomas J. Watson, Jr., former Chairman of IBM and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, in May 1988. Since then, 20 awards have been presented.� Past recipients have included: former U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush; United States Secretaries of State Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, U.S. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, and Economist and Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen.
The Eisenhower Medal is awarded at a private gala dinner in Philadelphia, where recipients are honored by trustees, sponsors and current Eisenhower Fellows.� For the past few years, the medal ceremony has taken place at the annual board of trustees’ dinner, which is held each May at The Rittenhouse Hotel.
Recipients of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service
| 2010 | James A. Baker III, Senior Partner, Baker Botts; Honorary Chairman, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University |
| 2009 | Professor Muhammad Yunus, Founding and Managing Director, Grameen Bank |
| 2008 | Senator George J. Mitchell, Chairman of the Global Board, DLA Piper; Chancellor, Queen’s University, Northern Ireland |
2007 |
Honorable Lee H. Hamilton, President, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs |
2006 |
Honorable Henry A. Kissinger, Former Secretary of State; former Chairman, Eisenhower Fellowships |
2005 |
Honorable John C. Whitehead, Chairman, AEA Investors; former Chairman, Goldman, Sachs; former Deputy Secretary of State |
2004 |
Dr. Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve |
2003 |
President George H.W. Bush, Former Chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships |
2002 |
Katherine Graham, Chairman of the Executive Committee, The Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize winning author |
2001 |
Honorable George P. Shultz, Former U.S. Secretary of State |
2000 |
Dr. Amartya Sen, Economist; 1998 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics |
1999 |
General Colin L. Powell, USA (ret.), Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; former Secretary of State |
1998 |
General Brent Scowcroft, Former National Security Affairs Director |
1997 |
Theodore W. Friend III, President Emeritus of Eisenhower Fellowships; former President, Swarthmore College |
1996 |
President Gerald R. Ford, Former Chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships |
1995 |
Honorable Pat Roberts, Representative of the First
Congressional District, Kansas; Chairman, House Committee on Agriculture |
| 1994 | No Medal Awarded |
1993 |
Honorable Donald Rumsfeld, Former Secretary of Defense; former CEO of G.D. Searle and General Instrument Co.; former Chairman, Eisenhower Fellowships |
1992 |
President Suleyman Demirel of Turkey, 1955 Eisenhower Fellow |
1991 |
Senator Mark O. Hatfield, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriations |
1990 |
Ambassador C. Douglas Dillon, Ambassador to France and Undersecretary of State under President Eisenhower; former Secretary of the Treasury |
1989 |
Robert O. Anderson, Former Chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships; former CEO, ARCO |
1988 |
Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg, Founding Trustee
of Eisenhower Fellowships; and Ambassador to the Court of St. James |
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