Barbara Williams Service Award

HISTORY

Established in 2003 as the Barbara Williams Leadership Award, in honor of the memory of the late Barbara Williams, a longtime USTA volunteer who gave unselfishly of her time and energy to promote the sport of tennis. This award recognizes a female volunteer who through her leadership and by her example has encouraged and inspired others to become volunteers and assume leadership roles at the community, section and/or national levels of the USTA.

In 2014, this award was merged with the Service Bowl bringing together two awards which recognize female volunteers with the most esteemed service and leadership within the USTA.

ELIGIBILITY/CRITERIA

A female volunteer who meets the following criteria:

Nominee must be a female member of the USTA.
The nominee, through her volunteer service, has demonstrated leadership abilities at the district/local level, section level, and national level.
The nominee serves as a source of inspiration and encouragement to others to become volunteers, and assume active leadership roles at the local, section and/or national levels of the USTA.

SELECTION PROCESS

Each USTA Section Association may submit one nominee meeting the above criteria. The Awards Committee will review and select the recipient from the submissions received.

CONTACT

Janet Hanasik

PAST BARBARA WILLIAMS SERVICE AWARD WINNERS

2024 Bonnie Vandegrift

2023 Christine Costamagna

2022 Pam Sloan

2021 Jodie Adams

2020 No winner

2019 Paula Hale

2018 Jonelle Smith

2017 Andrea Norman

2016 Barbara J. Fackel

2015 Lauren K. Covert

2014 Betty Cookson

PAST BARBARA WILLIAMS LEADERSHIP AWARD WINNERS

2012 Carol Welder

2011 Sue Gregor

2010 Lucy S. Garvin

2009 Judy Utley

2008 Lise J. Frank

2007 Sharon B. Gault

2006 Barbara L. Smith

2005 Margaret A. Lawrence

2003 Carol Schneider

PAST SERVICE BOWL WINNERS

2013 Margaret L. Cooper

2012 Barbara Lawrence

2011 Belmar Gunderson

2010 Elaine Mason

2009 Fern Lee "Peachy" Kellmeyer

2008 Mary Joe Fernandez

2007 Katrina M. Adams

2006 Carolyn A. Nichols

2005 Pam Austin

2004 Leslie Allen

2003 Chanda Rubin

2002 Jean Hughes Mills

2001 Virginia Tyler Renouard

2000 Katherine Chabot Willetti

1999 Nancy Corse Reed

1998 Zina Garrison

1997 Mildred Southern

1996 Andrea Jaeger

1995 Julia A. Levering

1994 Pam Shriver

1993 Yvonne K. Garton

1992 Pauline Betz Addie

1991 Christine S. Beck

1990 Barbara Wynne

1989 Carole Graebner

1988 Margaret Newfield

1987 Shirley Fry Irvin

1986 Betty Cookson

1985 Barbara S. Williams

1984 Alice Marble

1983 Helen Post & Flo Blanchard

1982 Chris Evert Lloyd

1981 Sarah Palfrey Danzig

1980 Evelyn Houseman

1979 Marian Baird

1978 Carol Schneider

1977 Catharine Sample

1976 Maru Hardwick Hare

1975 Julie M. Heldman

1974 Mary Arnold Prentiss

1973 Edythe Sullivan McGoldrick

1972 Nancy Neeld

1971 Ruth Lay

1970 Nancy Jeffett

1969 Doris Harrison

1968 Betty R. Pratt

1967 Donna Floyd Fales

1966 Billie Jean Moffitt King

1965 Rosalind Greenwood

1964 Mrs. Theodore Hackett & Helen Fulton Shockley

1963 Marilyn Montgomery

1962 Mimi Arnold

1961 Gail Stewart

1960 Sylvia K. Simonin

1959 Barbara Krase Chandler

1958 Katharine Hubbell

1957 Dorothy Head Knode

1956 Patricia Henry Yeomans

1955 Doris Hart

1954 Marjorie Gladman Buck

1953 Mrs. John B. Moore

1952 Maureen Connolly Brinker

1951 Gladys Medalie Heldman

1950 Nancy P. Norton

1949 Madge Harshaw Vosters

1948 A. Louise Brough

1947 Mrs. John B. Prizer

1946 Hazel H. Wightman

1945 Margaret Osborne duPont

1944 Dorothy Bundy Cheney

NEW ENGLAND WINNERS

1943 Marjorie Morrill Painter

1942 Mrs. J. Lewis Bremer

1941 Mrs. William M. Shedden

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