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Each year at a special gourmet dinner event, the Institute presents its Jefferson-Lincoln Award to outstanding public servants who have demonstrated the highest standards of bipartisan leadership in addressing our nation's problems.
The tenth annual Jefferson Lincoln Awards dinner, An Evening to Honor Lives of Public Service, was held on the evening of November 10, 2007, when we honored three outstanding journalists: nationally syndicated columnist David Broder, PBS News Hour correspondent Judy Woodruff, and longtime KQED public affairs reporter and commentator Belva Davis.
Jefferson-Lincoln honorees are selected by a special committee consisting of former U.S. Senators Howard Baker and Nancy Kassebaum, former U.S. Representative Lee Hamilton, and Leon Panetta. The 2007 event was the first time the Institute has singled out journalists for the award. Winners in previous years have included:
Year 2006
- U.S. Representative Sherwood Boehlert, R-NY
- U.S. Representative Ike Skelton, D-MO
Year 2005
- U.S. Senator Susan Collins of Maine, R-ME
- U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-CA
- U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, D-CT
Year 2004
- U.S. Senator John Breaux, D-LA
- U.S. Representative Olympia Snowe, R-ME
Year 2003
- Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, R-ME
- Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, D-CA
- U.S. Representative Marty Meehan, D-MA
- U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-CT
Year 2002
- U.S. Senator John McCain, R-AZ
- U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, D-WI
Year 2001
- U.S. Representative Bill Young, R-FL
- U.S. Representative John Murtha, D- PA
Year 2000
- U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-NY
- U.S. Senator John Chafee, R-R
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