Defender of Diversity Award
Past awardees
- 2022 Jazmin Pichardo
- 2021 Timea Webster
- 2020 Kelley Bishop
- 2019 Shelby Renee Speer, Graduate Student Services Coordinator, Center for Student Engagement & Financial Resources at the Universities at Shady Grove
- 2018 Alexis Y. Williams, Instructional Development Specialist, Teaching & Learning Transformation Center
- 2017 Catherine A. Carroll, Director, Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct
- 2016 Erin McClure, Chief of Staff, School of Public Health
- 2015 Jenna Beckwith Messman, Sexual Health Program Coordinator, University Health Center
- 2014 Bonnie Thornton Dill, Dean, College of Arts and Humanities
- 2013 Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Chief Diversity Office and Associate Vice President
- 2012 Deborah Grandner, Director, Department of Resident Life
- 2011 Sally Koblinsky, Assistant President and Chief of Staff
- 2010 Cordell W. Black, Associate Provost for Equity and Diversity
- 2009 C. D. Mote, Jr., President, University of Maryland, College Park
- 2008 Paul Dillon, Patrol Commander, Public Safety
- 2007 Donna B. Hamilton, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Undergraduate Studies
- 2006 Laura D. Scott, Organizational Development Specialist, Center for Leadership and Organizational Change
- 2005 Susan Bayly, General Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs
- 2004 Nancy Yeroshefsky, Assistant Director for Human Resources, Facilities Management
- 2003 Gay Gullickson, Professor of History at the University of Maryland and Chair of the University Senate Human Relations Committee
- 2002 Victor Korenman, Associate Provost at the University of Maryland
- 2001 Sheila E. Hixson, Delegate to the Maryland Legislature
- 2000 Marie S. Davidson, Chief of Staff to the President of the University of Maryland
- 1999 Parris N. Glendening, Governor of the State of Maryland
- 1998 William E. Kirwan, President of the University of Maryland
- 1997 Sharon M. Grosfeld, Delegate to the Maryland Legislature
- 1996 Margaret Alton, Regent of the University System of Maryland
- 1995 Cheryl Kagan, Delegate to the Maryland Legislature
- 1994 Hank Dobin and Art Eckstein, Professors at the University of Maryland