Excellence in Education Awards

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The TCU College of Education Excellence in Education Award recognizes an individual who has made contributions in the field of education and is actively involved in the TCU College of Education. Nominees may be teachers, professors, counselors, librarians, administrators, school board members or educational advocates associated with public or private institutions at all levels of education. A nominee may be deceased and does not have to be a TCU graduate.

Year	Recipient
2019	Excellence in Education Award: Mary-Mac Elliott ’71 M.A.T. ’77 Early Career Award: Erin Tracy M.Ed. ’08 Excellence in Educational Leadership – Early Career Award: Charles Erwin M.Ed. ’16 Excellence in Higher Education Leadership Award: Dr. Mary Martin Patton
2018	Excellence in Education Award: Janet Paul McKnight ’74 ’81 Early Career Award: Courtney Kinson ’13 ’14
2017	Millicent “Fluffy” Jones ’66 ’72
2016	Dr. Terri Mossige ’03 ’13
2015	Dr. Luther Clegg
2014	Sara Gillaspie
2013	Dr. Jerry Hollingsworth, ’92
2012	Catherine Sewell, ’96
2011	Dr. Janette Hahn ’81
2010	Barbara Ozuna ’90
2009	Clark Cavin ’95
2008	Brian Brazil ’88
2007	Kathy Lott ’75 ’96
2006	Dale Young ’66 ’68
2005	Dr. Cathy Collins Block
2004	Dr. Dan Powell ’74
2003	Dr. Sidney H. Poynter
2002	Ellen Young Swain ’71 ’80 ’85
2001	Dr. Henry Patterson
2000	Susan N. Smith ’82
1999	Shari Perrin Emmons ’69 ’82
1998	Taddie Curl Hamilton ’66 ’82
1997	Susan Swain Hotard ’64
1996	Mary Elmore Williams ’51
1995	Bill Haley
1994	Dr. M. J. Neeley