The ACME Award

Former Acme Award Recipients

ACME AWARD-The Acme award was established in 1993 and is Women’s Council most prestigious award. Awarded annually, the Acme recipient must be an outstanding woman that has demonstrated by honorable reputation, probity and the distinction of multiple accomplishments in the field of business, politics or social services and has made a great impact amongst the African American community.

1993 – SARAH KNIGHT PREDDY
Community Activist and Business Owner First African American Hotel and Night Club Las Vegas, Nevada

1994 – DR. HARRIETT W. CLARK, J.D. 
Vice President and Assistant General Counsel Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. Oakland, California

1995 – PAMELA PRYOR FULLER 
Director, Corporate and External Affairs Bell South Telecommunications
Atlanta, Georgia

1996 – BEULAH ANN SHEPHARD 
Member, Supreme Court of Texas Legal Access to Justice Foundation Houston, Texas

1997 – SENATOR CONNIE STOKES 
State Senator DeKalb County, 43rd District Decatur, Georgia

1998 – HONORABLE MINYaN MOORE 
Assistant to the President of the United States and Director of the Office of Public Liaison Washington, D.C.

1999 – ESTHER GORDY EDWARDS 
Founder and CEO Motown Museum Detroit, Michigan

2000 – YVONNE ATKINSON-GATES 
Commissioner Clarke County
Las Vegas, Nevada

2001 – CYNTHIA M. A. BUTLER-BLUCHER
Personnel Administrator
Jefferson Parish School System
New Orleans, Louisiana

2002 – HONORABLE SHIRLEY FRANKLIN
Mayor City of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

2003 – HONORABLE MAXINE WATERS
United States Congressman
35Th Congressional District
Los Angeles, California

2004 – DR. MARGARET BURROUGHS
Commissioner Chicago Park District Board Chicago,IL

2005 – YOLANDA KING
Founder and CEO
High Ground Productions
Los Angeles, CA

2006 – ALICE LUCILLE MARTIN
Educator
Louisville, KY

2001 – VERA MOORE
Founder and CEO Vera Moore Cosmetics
Harlem, NY

2008 – CARRIE T. HARRIS
D & E The Power Group
Atlanta, GA

2009 – HONORABLE PORTIA SIMPSON MILLER
Former Prime Minister
Montego Bay, Jamaica

2010 – GAIL WARRIOR LAWRENCE
President and CEO of Warrior Group
DeSoto, Texas

2011 – VAUGHN FAURIA
Executive Director/President New Corp. Inc.
New Orleans, Louisiana

2012 – NINA TURNER
State Senator-25th District
Cleveland, Ohio

2013 – Rhonda Fields
State Representative- House District 42
Denver, Colorado

2014 – Diane Bell-McKoy
President & CEO, Associated Black Charities
Baltimore, Maryland

2015 – Denis Kelley
President, As We Remember Johnny Memorial Foundations
Houston, Texas

2017 – Katrina Y. Emery
Director, Office of Education at NASA’s John C Stennis Space Center in Mississippi

2018 – Gail Davenport
State Senator, 44th District of Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia

2018 – Evelyn Reeves
1st Female President of NAREB
CEO of First Security
Los Angeles, California

 
2020 – Monique Owens
Mayor
Eastpointe, Michigan
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