Alumni Distinguished Service Award
The Alumni Distinguished Service Award is presented at the Homecoming Banquet to honor an individual for his/her exceptional service, contribution and dedication to Southern Utah University and his/her community.
Past Recipients
| 2022 | Kay Andersen ('84) & Virgil Johnson ('77) |
| 2021 | Sandra Lord Thomas ('93 & '98) |
| 2020 | Not Awarded |
| 2019 | Steve Shirts ('87) |
| 2018 | Kathryn Berg |
| 2017 | Jim Johnson ('76) |
| 2016 | Derrick Haslem ('00) |
| 2015 | Mark Russell ('74) |
| 2014 | Joan Woodbury ('47) |
| 2013 | Ted & Melinda Whitaker ('71) |
| 2012 | Craig Jones |
| 2011 | Lee Fife (’72) |
| 2010 | Julie Stuart Castle (’92) & David Nakken (’85) |
| 2009 | Richard Gary Currier (’68) |
| 2008 | Cedar City Corporation |
| 2007 | David Oberhelman (’67) |
| 2006 | Marlo Jensen & Gregg Pitt (’71) |
| 2005 | Connie Pitt (’84) & Ralph E. Spence (’72) |
| 2004 | Austin Jones ('38) & Forrest Parry ('41) |
| 2003 | Louise Jones Mark Stephensen ('68) & Nedra Stephensen ('02) & Claudia Ward Howells (’72) & Ed & Carolyn Rondthaler |
| 2002 | Not Awarded |
| 2001 | Fred Esplin (’71) & Evelyn Jones (’46) & Gary N. Giles (’57) & York Jones |
| 2000 | Lelani Bentley (’66) & Reuben Jones (’32) & David Moody (’86) |
| 1999 | Naida Gardner & Mary Jane Seaman (’41) & A. Lear Thorpe |
| 1998 | Ruth Challis & Vaughn McDonald & Kent Myers (’51) |
| 1997 | Jerry Anderson & Bessie Dover (’46) & Eugene T. Woolf |
| 1996 | Peg Thorley (’49) |
| 1995 | Conrad V. Hatch (’42) |
| 1994 | Jeann Ahern |
| 1993 | LuAnne Brown (’74) & Evelyn Jones (’46) & Mary M. MacDonald (’38) & Carol Ann Nyman (’78) |
| 1992 | Roger Hillyard |
| 1991 | Fred C. Adams |
| 1990 | Wayne K. Heppler (’60) |
| 1989 | Mary E. Anker (’42) |
| 1988 | Calvin Carter & Jack H. Carter (’47) |
| 1987 | Lanell N. Lunt (’20) |
| 1986 | Cedar City Lions Club |
| 1985 | Maude M. Halversen (’29) & Elda R. Manning |
| 1984 | Frank J. Petty, Jr. (’48) |
| 1983 | Royden C. Brathwaite |
| 1982 | Clayton Frehner (’59) |
| 1981 | Wanda Tollestrup |
| 1980 | R. Kenneth Benson (’56) & H. Grant Seaman (’37) |
| 1979 | Sheldon B. Grant |
| 1978 | J. S. Prestwich |
| 1977 | Warren H. Bulloch ('14) & Henry A. Jones ('03) & A. W. Stevenson |
| 1976 | Reed W. Farnsworth & Dixie Leavitt (’51) |
| 1975 | Max J. Thorley & Robert J. Thorley (’39) |
| 1974 | Ella Berry Leigh ('00) |
| 1973 | Cedar City Chamber of Commerce |
| 1972 | John L. Seymour |
| 1971 | Grace Adams Tanner (’31) |
| 1970 | Blaine H. Johnson |
| 1969 | Stanley H. Bradshaw |
| 1968 | Hazen J. Cooley |