Honorary Membership
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has been granting honorary membership to non-members for their distinguished contributions to the field of nutrition and dietetics since 1920. Since 1954, the Academy has generally awarded honorary membership to two non-members every year based on their professional knowledge, technical expertise and promotion of the Academy’s mission, vision and values. Those chosen as honorary members have demonstrated goodwill through notable national or international service, promoted registered dietitian nutritionists and nutrition and dietetics technicians, registered, as contributors to the optimal health and nutritional status of the public and aided in the advancement of the profession and the Academy.
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Qualifications
- Has never held Academy membership and/or the RDN/RD or NDTR/DTR credentials.
- Has made distinguished contributions to nutrition and dietetics through:
- professional knowledge.
- technical expertise.
- promotion of the Academy's mission, vision and values.
- Has demonstrated goodwill through notable national or international service through:
- the advancement of the profession.
- the advancement of the Academy.
- Has promoted Academy members as contributors to the optimal health and nutritional status of the population.
Scoring Criteria
- Has made distinguished contributions to nutrition and dietetics through professional knowledge, technical expertise and promotion of the Academy's mission, vision and values. (40 points)
- Has demonstrated goodwill through notable national or international service through the advancement of the profession and the Academy. (40 points)
- Has promoted Academy members as contributors to the optimal health and nutritional status of the population. (20 points)
Past Recipients
2022
José Andrés
George Phillip (Phil) Ayers
Praveen S. Goday
Betti J. Wiggins
2021
Karen Elizabeth Aspry
Peggi A. Guenter
Osama Hamdy
Kevin C. Maki
2020
William D. Chey
Larry K. Ellingson
Virginia A. Stallings
2019
Mark Corkins
Victor V. Van Beuren
2018
Roger A. Clemens
Daren Keith Heyland
Irl B. Hirsch
2017
Andrew S. Narva
Michelle Obama
2016
Sylvia B. Rowe
Howard A. Wolpert
2015
Michael O. Fleming
Dan Glickman
2014
Beverly Broughton Bajus
Nathan Wong
2013
Louis J. Aronne
Janey Knight Thornton
2012
Richard Bergenstal
Bob Murray
Robert M. Russell
2011
Mark DeLegge
Patrick Mahlen O’Neil
2010
David August
Robert Kushner
2009
Mary Christ-Erwin
Gerard Emmanuel Mullin
2008
Stephen A. McClave
Russell R. Pate
William N. Reynolds
2007
Richard J. Deckelbaum
John A. Milner
2006
George A. Bray
Samuel Klein
2005
Judith T. Barr
Henry N. Ginsberg
2004
Patricia M. Babjak
Gary D. Foster
2003
James O. Hill
Barbara J. Rolls
2002
Susan E. Carlson
William H. Dietz
Ambassador George McGovern
2001
Dominick P. DePaola
Linda M. Siminerio
2000
Van Saxton Hubbard
Graham Kerr
Robert Langholz
1999
Gordon Jensen
Shirley Watkins
1998
William J. Evans
Ezra Steiger
1997
George M. Owen
Ekhard Ziegler
1996
K. Michael Hambidge
Steven B. Heymsfield
1995
James E. Cimino
1994
J. Michael McGinnis
F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer
1993
Albert Barrocas
Ferdinard Metz
1992
George L. Blackburn
John E. Vanderveen
1991
Douglas W. Wilmore
1990
John P. Foreyt
Robert R. Heaney
1989
Charles E. Boyce
William E. Connor
1988
Julian F. Haynes
Victor Herbert
1987
C. Wayne Callaway
Lloyd J. Filer, Jr.
1986
Stephen Barrett
Jane Young Wallace
1985
Samuel Fomon
1984
Ronald A. Arky
Lorraine Thomas
1983
Howard Jacobson
Marvin E. Levin
1982
Arnold Schaefer
Harriet Sankey
1981
Maurice Shils
1980
Donnell Etzwiler
1979
Alfred E. Harper
1978
Charles Butterworth
Paul A. L. Haber
1977
Rosyln Alfin-Slater
1976
William Knisley
1975
J. Warren Perry
1974
William Darby
1973
George J. Christakis
D. Mark Hegsted
1972
Helen Brown
1971
Nevin S. Scrimshaw
1970
Jean Mayer
1969
Harald M. Graning
1968
Robert E. Shank
Horace L. Sipple
1967
Award not given
1966
Frederick J. Stare
1965
George E. Cartmill
1964
James M. Hundley
1963
Grace A. Goldsmith
1962
Award not given
1961
Robert R. Williams
1960
Conard A. Elvehjem
1959
Russell M. Wilder
1958
Charles Glen King
Hazel K. Stiebeling
1957
Leonard A. Maynard
1956
Stuart B. Foster
1955
Award not given
1954
Martha N. Eliot
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