APHA Distinguished Public Health Legislators of the Year Award

2011    Representative Jan Schakowsky, D-IL

2010    Senator Christopher J. Dodd, D-CT

2010    Representative Lois Capps, D-CA

2009    Representative Nita Lowey, D-NY

2009    Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-CA

2008    Representative Henry Waxman, D-CA

2008    Senator Edward Kennedy, D-MA (Special Lifetime
 Achievement Award)

2007    Senator Olympia Snowe, R-ME

2007    Representative Hilda L. Solis, D-CA

2006    Senator Arlen Spector, R-PA

2006    Senator Tom Harkin, D-IA

2006    Representative Major Owens, D-NY

2005    Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-NM

2005    Senator Daniel Inouye, D-HI

2005    Governor Mike Huckabee, AR-R

2005    State Delegate Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, MD-D

2004    Representative John Conyers, Jr., D-MI

2004    Senator Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ

2004    State Senator Ray Miller, D-OH

2003    Maine Governor John E. Baldacci

2003    Representative Barbara Lee, D-CA

2003    House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi

2002    Representative Sherrod Brown, D-OH

2002    State Senator Martha Escutia, D-CA, Montebello

2001    Senator James Jeffords, I-VT

2001    Representative John Lewis, D-GA

2001    Representative Andrew Nichols, D-AZ

2000    Senator Ted Kennedy, D-MA

2000    Representative Carolyn McCarthy, D-NY

2000    Speaker of the House G. Steven Rowe, D-ME

1999    Senator Richard Durbin, D-IL

1999    Representative Barbara Flynn Currie, D-IL

1999    State Assemblywoman Carol J. Murphy, R-NY

1998    Senator John McCain, R-AZ

1998    Representative Louis M. Slaughter, D-NY

1997    Representative Henry A. Waxman, D-CA