Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award
Recipients
1980
- Nat Hentoff — Book Publishing
- Erwin Knoll and Howard Morland — Journalism
- Saul Landau and Jack Willis — Journalism
- David Goldberger — Law
- Louis Clark — Government
- Carey McWilliams — Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles; Jules Feiffer, playwright and social cartoonist; Fay Kanin, President, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Victor Navasky, Editor, The Nation; and Tom Wicker, Columnist and Associate Editor, The New York TImes.
1981
- Frank Rowe — Book Publishing
- Todd Crowder, Charles Reineke and William Hoffmann Jr. — Journalism
- Edward Asner, Allan Burns, Seth Freeman, and Gene Reynolds — Arts and Entertainment
- William Schannen III — Law
- Morton Halperin — Government
- Kathy Russell — Education
- Stanley Fleishman — Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Edward Brooke, US Senator, Massachusetts; Nat Hentoff, author and columnist, The Village Voice; Fay Kanin, President, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Judith Krug, Director, The American Library Association; and Charles Nesson, Dean, Harvard Law School.
1982
- Franklyn S. Haiman — Book Publishing
- Gene D. Lanier — Education
- Billie Pirner Garde — Government
- Frank Snepp — Individual Conscience
- Steven Pico — Law
- Robert Berger, Herbert Brodkin, Ernest Kinoy and Herbert Wise — Arts and Entertainment
- Melody Sands — Journalism
- Frank J. Donner — Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, Partner, Kutak, Rode & Huie; Hamilton Fish III, Publisher, The Nation; Florence McMullin, Chair, The Washington Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee; and Aryeh Neier, Professor of Law, New York University.
1983
- Tom Gish and Pat Gish – Outstanding Community Leadership
- Mark Lynch – Outstanding National Leadership
- Osmond K. Fraenkel – Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Harriet Pilpel, Attorney, Weil, Gotshal & Manges; Studs Terkel, author and nationally syndicated radio show host; and William Worthy, international journalist and civil liberties activist.
1984
- Helen Troy and Forest Troy – Outstanding Community Leadership
- Agnus Mackenzie – Outstanding National Leadership
- Frank Wilkinson – Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Martin Agronsky, Agronsky and Company; Alan Dershowitz, Professor, Harvard Law School; and Liza Pike, Program Director, Center for Investigative Reporting.
1985
- Clifford McKenzie – Government
- Jack C. Landau – Education
- Ronnie Dugger – Journalism
The judges were Burton Joseph, Attorney, Barsy, Joseph & Lichtenstein; Harriet Pilpel, Attorney, Weil, Gotshal & Manges; and Melody Sands, former owner of The Athens News.
1986-1987
- Barry Lynn – Government
- Glenna Nowell – Education
- Walter Karp – Book Publishing
- Charles Levendosky – Journalism
- William A. Bradford, Jr., Ricki Seidman, and Mary Weidler – Law
The judges were Julius Chambers, President, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Maxwell Lillienstein, General Counsel, American Booksellers Association; and Anthony Podesta, Founding President, People for the American Way.
1988
- Jamie Kalven – Book Publishing
- Herbert Foerstel – Education
- Rex Armstrong – Law
- Eric Robert Glitzenstein – Government
- David Arnett – Journalism
- Roy Woodruff – Individual Conscience
The judges were Charlayne Hunter-Gault, New York Correspondent, The MacNeil / Lehrer NewsHour; Anthony Lewis, syndicated columnist, The New York Times; Steven Pico, First Amendment lecturer and advocate; and Tom Wicker, political columnist, The New York Times.
1989
- Eve Pell – Journalism
- James A. Haught – Journalism
- Thomas Michael Devine – Government
- Joann Bell – Law
- John Henry Faulk – Individual Conscience
- Louis Ingelhart – Education
- Anthony Lewis – Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Judith Krug, Director, the American Library Association for Intellectual Freedom; Jack K. Landau, attorney an columnist, Newhouse Newspapers; Clarence Page, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist, Chicago Tribune; and Harriet Pilpel, attorney, Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
1990
- Paul Conrad – Journalism
- Marilyn Athmann – Education
- Danny Goldberg – Arts and Entertainment
- Hans A. Linde – Law
- Dennis Barrie – Individual Conscience
- Studs Terkel – Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Herbert N. Foerstel, Head of Branch Libraries, University of Maryland; Robert Scheer, National Correspondent, Los Angeles Times; and Maxine Waters, US Representative, California.
1991
- Allan Adler – Book Publishing
- Inez Austin – Individual Conscience
- Traci Bauer – Law
- James Dana – Education
- Bella Lewitzky – Arts and Entertainment
- Debbie Nathan – Journalism
- Sydney Schanberg – Government
The judges were Arthur Kropp, President, People for the American Way; Barry Lynn, Co-host, Battleline news radio talk show; Eve Pell, investigative journalist, Freedom of Information Project; and Tom Wicker, political columnist, The New York Times.
1992
- Jules Feiffer – Individual Conscience
- Bruce Rogow – Law
- Natalie Robins – Book Publishing
- Carl Jensen – Education
- Dannie Martin – Journalism
- Peter Sussman – Journalism
The judges were Dennis Barrie, Executive Director, Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati; Norman Dorsen, Stokes Professor of Law, New York University Law School; Mark Goodman, Executive Director, Student Press Law Center; Barbara Kopple, documentary filmmaker; and Reginald Stuart, Assistant News Editor, Knight-Ridder Newspapers.
1993-1994
- Anthony Griffin – Law
- Robert Landauer – Print Journalism
- Jeff Cohen and Norman Soloman – Book Publishing
- Carole Marlowe – Education
- Jim Warren – Government
- Jean Otto – Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Rex Armstrong, Attorney and Volunteer Counsel, ACLU of Oregon; Jessica Mitford, author and social activist; and Carl Jensen, Founder, Project Censored.
1995-1996
- Jeffrey DeBonis – Government
- Joycelyn Chadwick-Joshua – Education
- Seth Rosenfeld – Print Journalism
- Mary Morello – Arts and Entertainment
- Tom Hull – Law
- Morton Mintz – Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Chris Finan, Executive Director, The Media Coalition; Marjorie Heins, Director an Staff Counsel, ACLU Arts Censorship Project; and Sydney Schanberg, journalist.
1997
- Dr. Frederic Whitehurst – Government
- Kelli Peterson – Individual Conscience
- Katharine Swan – Journalism
- Cecile Richards – Education
- American Civil Liberties Union – Law
- American Library Association – Law
The judges were Anthony Griffin, attorney; Bobby Handman, President, People for the American Way; and Burton Joseph, Attorney, Barsy, Joseph & Lichtenstein.
1998
- Lee Brawner – Education
- Tisha Byars – Individual Conscience
- Goodlow Sutton and Jean Sutton – Journalism
The judges were Nadine Strossen, President, ACLU; Peter S. Prichard, President, Freedom Forum; and Ann K. Symons, President, American Library Association.
1999
- Michael Moore — Arts and Entertainment
- Eugenie C. Scott — Education
- Nicolas Becker — Individual Conscience
- Jeri McGiverin & Elaine Williamson – Law
- Donald Parker – Lifetime Achievement
- Bruce Sanford – Book Publishing
The judges were Mark Goodman, Executive Director, Student Press Law Center; Molly Ivins, author and columnist, Creators Syndicate; Barbara Kopple, filmmaker; and Clarence Page, columnist, Chicago Tribune.
2000-2001
- Michael Kent Curtis – Book Publishing
- Mary Dana – Education
- Nancy Zennie – Education
- William M. Lawbaugh – Print Journalism
- James Wheaton – Law
- John Seigenthaler - Lifetime Achievement
- Penn & Teller – Arts and Entertainment
The judges were Floyd Abrams, Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel; Lucy Dalglish; Executive Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Robert M. O'Neil, Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression; and Nadine Strossen, President, ACLU.
2002-2003
- Trina Magi and Linda Ramsdell — Education
- Ronald K. L. Collins and David Michael Skover – Book Publishing
- David Cole – Book Publishing
- Nate Blakeslee – Law
- Steven Aftergood – Government
- Talia Buford – Print Journalism
- Bill Maher – Arts and Entertainment
- Molly Ivins – Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Margaret Carlson, CNN's The Capital Gang and Time Magazine columnist; Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas; and John Seigenthaler, Founder, First Amendment Center.
2006
- Paisley Dodds — Print Journalism
- Patricia Princehouse — Education
- Geoffrey R. Stone – Book Publishing
- Jack Spadaro — Government
- Shelby Knox, Marion Lipschutz, and Rose Rosenblatt — Arts and Entertainment
- Rhett Jackson — Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher, The Nation; Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union; and Eugenie Scott, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education.
2008
- Greg Lukianoff — Freedom of Expression
- Heather Gillman — Law
- Mark Klein — Government
The judges were Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties Union and Professor of Law, New York Law School; Geoffrey Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at University of Chicago Law School; and David Rubin, Professor and Former Dean, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.
2012
- Rebecca MacKinnon — Book Publishing
- Pablo Alvarado — Law
- Thomas Drake — Government
- Jesselyn Radack — Government
- Zack Kopplin — Education
- Stanley K. Sheinbaum — Lifetime Achievement
The judges were Hector Villagra; Patricia Schroeder; Robert Scheer; and Norman Lear.
2013
- Morris Davis — Government[1]
- Jessica Ahlquist — Education[1]
- Norman Lear — Lifetime Achievement[1]
- Marjorie Heins for her book Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge.[1][2][3][4]
The judges were Henry Weinstein from the University of California, Ramona Ripston and Dr. Charles C. Haynes, Director of the Religious Freedom Education Project.
2014
- Muneer Awad — Government
- Glenn Greenwald — Journalism
- Norman Dorsen — Lifetime Achievement
- Thomas Healy — Book Publishing
- Michael Hiestand and Mary Beth Tinker — For organizing the Tinker Tour
- Chris Finan — Law
The judges were Margaret Carlson, Laura W. Murphy Director if the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office, and Joan E. Bertin Executive Director of National Coalition Against Censorship.
See also
- Free Speech, "The People’s Darling Privilege" book published in 2000, recognized with the award
- William O. Douglas Prize
References
- "Winners and Judges of the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards". hmhfoundation.org. Retrieved June 2, 2014. - Source for all winners and judges
- 1 2 3 4 Lodge, Elayne (May 29, 2013). "Ahlquist receives 1st Amendment Award". Cranston Herald. Retrieved June 3, 2013.
- ↑ Business Wire (May 15, 2013). "Winners Announced for 2013 Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards". The Wall Street Journal. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
- ↑ "Winners and Judges of the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards". Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Awards. HMH Foundation. 2014. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
- ↑ "Marjorie Heins wins 2013 Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award!". From the Square. NYU Press. May 15, 2013. Retrieved February 27, 2013.