Past Recipients of the Emma Merritt Award:

• 2007 — Gayle Wilson
• 2006 — Shirley Hailstock
• 2005 — Carol Prescott
• 2004 — Alicia Rasley
• 2003 — Debra Dixon
• 2001 — Libby Hall
• 2000 — Claudia Yates
• 1999 — Janis Reams Hudson
• 1998 — Robin Lee Hatcher
• 1997 — JoAnn Ferguson
• 1996 — Christine Pacheco
• 1995 —  Rita Gallagher
  Cathie Linz
  Debbie Macomber
  Karan Richardson
• 1994 — Margaret Brownley
  Patt Marr
  Maggie Osborne
• 1993 — Darlene Layman
  Harold Lowry, aka Leigh Greenwood
  Nora Simpson
• 1992 — Emma Merritt
• 1991 — Kathy Clark
  Jeanne Triner
• 1990 Marian Jones
• 1989 — Jan Milella
• 1988 — Jasmine Cresswell
  Selwyn Young
• 1987 — Linda Nusser
• 1986 — JoAnn Ross
• 1985 — Marianne Willman

(Historical Note: from 1985 through 1989 the award was known as the Golden Rose.  From 1990 through 1995 it was known as the National Service Award.