Barbara Williams Service Award
PRESENTED DURING
The USTA Semiannual Meeting and Conference
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:
1. Nominee must be a female member of the USTA.
2. The nominee, through her volunteer service, must demonstrate leadership abilities and serve as a source of inspiration and encouragement to others to become volunteers and assume active leadership roles at the community, section and/or national levels of the USTA.
SELECTION PROCESS
Each USTA Section Association submits a nominee meeting the above criteria. The Awards Committee then selects the recipient from the submissions received from each UTSA Section Association.
TIMETABLE
Follows the Fall Awards Timetable. See the Awards homepage for the standard timelines.
CONTACT
PAST BARBARA WILLIAMS SERVICE AWARD WINNERS
YEAR RECIPIENT
2014 Betty Cookson
2015 Lauren K. Covert
2016 Barbara J. Fackel
2017 Andrea Norman
2018 Jonelle Smith
2019 Paula Hale
PAST BARBARA WILLIAMS LEADERSHIP AWARD WINNERS
2003 Carol Schneider
2005 Margaret A. Lawrence
2006 Barbara L. Smith
2007 Sharon B. Gault
2008 Lise J. Frank
2009 Judy Utley
2010 Lucy S. Garvin
2011 Sue Gregor
2012 Carol Welder
PAST SERVICE BOWL WINNERS
1944 Dorothy Bundy Cheney
1945 Margaret Osborne duPont
1946 Hazel H. Wightman
1947 Mrs. John B. Prizer
1948 A. Louise Brough
1949 Madge Harshaw Vosters
1950 Nancy P. Norton
1951 Gladys Medalie Heldman
1952 Maureen Connolly Brinker
1953 Mrs. John B. Moore
1954 Marjorie Gladman Buck
1955 Doris Hart
1956 Patricia Henry Yeomans
1957 Dorothy Head Knode
1958 Katharine Hubbell
1959 Barbara Krase Chandler
1960 Sylvia K. Simonin
1961 Gail Stewart
1962 Mimi Arnold
1963 Marilyn Montgomery
1964 Mrs. Theodore Hackett & Helen Fulton Shockley
1965 Rosalind Greenwood
1966 Billie Jean Moffitt King
1967 Donna Floyd Fales
1968 Betty R. Pratt
1969 Doris Harrison
1970 Nancy Jeffett
1971 Ruth Lay
1972 Nancy Neeld
1973 Edythe Sullivan McGoldrick
1974 Mary Arnold Prentiss
1975 Julie M. Heldman
1976 Maru Hardwick Hare
1977 Catharine Sample
1978 Carol Schneider
1979 Marian Baird
1980 Evelyn Houseman
1981 Sarah Palfrey Danzig
1982 Chris Evert Lloyd
1983 Helen Post & Flo Blanchard
1984 Alice Marble
1985 Barbara S. Williams
1986 Betty Cookson
1987 Shirley Fry Irvin
1988 Margaret Newfield
1989 Carole Graebner
1990 Barbara Wynne
1991 Christine S. Beck
1992 Pauline Betz Addie
1993 Yvonne K. Garton
1994 Pam Shriver
1995 Julia A. Levering
1996 Andrea Jaeger
1997 Mildred Southern
1998 Zina Garrison
1999 Nancy Corse Reed
2000 Katherine Chabot Willetti
2001 Virginia Tyler Renouard
2002 Jean Hughes Mills
2003 Chanda Rubin
2004 Leslie Allen
2005 Pam Austin
2006 Carolyn A. Nichols
2007 Katrina M. Adams
2008 Mary Joe Fernandez
2009 Fern Lee "Peachy" Kellmeyer
2010 Elaine Mason
2011 Belmar Gunderson
2012 Barbara Lawrence
2013 Margaret L. Cooper
NEW ENGLAND WINNERS
1941 Mrs. William M. Shedden
1942 Mrs. J. Lewis Bremer
1943 Marjorie Morrill Painter
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