|
Year |
Recipient(s) |
|
2008 |
James Madison Award: Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) |
|
2007 |
James Madison Award: Paul K. McMasters, of the Freedom Forum's First Amendment Center
Eileen Cooke State and Local Madison Award: Patricia Glass Schumann, of Neal-Schuman Publishers |
|
2006 |
James Madison Award: Steve Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists
Eileen Cooke State and Local Madison Award: Hollie Mannheimer, of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation |
|
2005 |
James Madison Award: Richard M. Schmidt, served as General Counsel to American Society of Newspaper Editors (awarded posthumously)
Eileen Cooke State and Local Madison Award: The Minnesota Coalition on Government Information |
|
2004 |
David Sobel, Counsel and FOIA litigator, Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, D.C. |
|
2003 |
Former U.S. Congressman Steve Horn;
Government of Arlington County (VA) |
|
2002 |
Steven Garfinkel, retired director of the Information Security Oversight Office;
John E. Moss the author of the Freedom of Information Act (awarded posthumously) |
|
2001 |
John D. Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff |
|
2000 |
Larry Irving, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information |
|
1999* |
Board members and congressional sponsors of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, including former Senator John Glenn and Representatives Dan Burton, Henry Waxman, and Louis Stokes and Board members: Honorable John R. Tunheim (chair), Henry F. Graff, Kermit L. Hall, William L. Joyce and Anna Kasten Nelson. |
|
1998 |
Ben Bagdikian, journalist,
Wayne P. Kelley, former Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing Office,
Eliot Christian and the
U.S. Geological Survey, National Library of Medicine. |
|
1997* |
George Soros, philanthropist and financier |
|
1996* |
The National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council |
|
1995 |
The Government Printing Office, the State of Maryland's
Sailor Project,
the Seattle (WA) Public Library,
and the Internet Multicasting Service's Town Hall Project |
|
1994 |
Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary,
and former ALA Washington Office Director Eileen D. Cooke |
|
1993 |
The legislators who led the passage of P.L. 103-40, the GPO Access Act: Vice President Al Gore, original sponsor of the GPO Gateway to Government Act when he was in the Senate; Senators Wendell Ford (D-KY) and Ted Stevens (R-AK); Representatives Charlie Rose (D-NC) and Bill Thomas (R-CA) |
|
1992 |
Journalist Nina Totenberg,
author Scott Armstrong,
and C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb |
|
1991 |
Representative Don Edwards (D-CA) |
|
1990 |
Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ),
Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA),
journalist Philip Shabecoff,
and the Office of Toxic Substances of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
|
1989 |
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) |
