TAANA Awards

Outstanding Chapter Award

Members recommended a chapter by completing an application form and portfolio with visual and other descriptive materials that documented the following criteria: excellence in providing resources, education, and leadership to its members and the health care and legal communities. Two letters of support by TAANA members accompanied the application.

Outstanding Section Member Award

TAANA established the Outstanding Section Member Award to recognize members of each TAANA Section (Education; Litigation; Legal Nurse Consulting; Health Law, Legislation, and Compliance; and Students). The recipient of the award has demonstrated excellence in providing resources, education, and leadership to the section members, the health care and legal communities, and TAANA as a whole.

Outstanding Advocate Award

TAANA established the Outstanding Advocate Award to recognize an individual member's outstanding legal advocacy. The Awards Committee recognizes that a nurse attorney can be an advocate in various ways, such as making an impact on legislation, authoring scholarly works such as law review articles, books, journal articles, as well as achieving significant rulings in appellate practice, trial practice, and administrative law practice (e.g., hearings before various state boards). The award is intended to give recognition to a member whose legal theories, strategies, and abilities demonstrate outstanding advocacy.

Former Outstanding Advocate Award Recipients

1986 - Mary E. Kelly 1987 - Jill M. Follows 1988 - Marie E. Snyder 1989 - Cynthia E. Northrop*, Kathleen Flynn Peterson 1990 - No Award Given 1991 - No Award Given 1992 - Kathleen E. Hastings 1993 - Virginia Trotter Betts 1994 - Kathleen H. Switzer 1995 - Diane M. Rodriguez 1996 - Penny G. Westfall

1997 - Peggy L. B. Nakamura 1998 - Diane K. Kjervik 1999 - No Award Given 2000 - No Award Given 2001 - Joanne Sheehan 2002 - Penny Brooke 2003 - Karen Butler 2004 - Diane K. Kjervik 2005 - Phyllis Gallagher 2006 - Suzanne Edgett Collins 2007 - Janet Michael 2008 - Edie Brous 2009 - No Award Given 2010 - No Award Given 2011 - Taralynn Mackay

* = deceased

Cynthia Northrop Distinguished Service Award

The TAANA Foundation established the Cynthia Northrop Distinguished Service Award to recognize an individual member's leadership role in, and significant contributions to, TAANA. The award is named for Cynthia Ellen Northrop, who died in November 1989 at the age of 39. Cynthia was the founder of TAANA and served as its first president.

The award is intended to serve as an expression of sincere gratitude for the member's committed leadership, participation in, and contributions to the purposes of TAANA and its growth as the professional association for nurse attorneys.

Former Recipients of the Cynthia Northrop Distinguished
Service Award

1986 - Cynthia E. Northrop* 1987 - Diane Trace Warlick 1988 - Katherine J. Pohlman 1989 - Cynthia E. Northrop* 1990 - Sandra Berkowitz 1991 - Felice Quigley 1992 - No Award Given 1993 - D. M. Boulay 1994 - Tamara Todd Cotton, Karen Shedd Guarino 1995 - Tonia D. Aiken 1996 - Julie Bargnesi

1997 - No Award Given 1998 - Linda M. E. Auton 1999 - No Award Given 2000 - No Award Given 2001 - Paula DiMeo Grant 2002 - Sally Austin 2003 - Elizabeth Beall 2004 - Randi Kopf 2005 - Cynthia Mikos, Susan Ziel 2006 - Rosemary Conlon McCarthy 2007 - Amy Jerdee 2008 - Janet Feldkamp 2009 - Trudy Kiaunis 2010 - Kathleen McCormac 2011 - Randi Kopf

* = deceased