Recent DSA Recipients
Distinguished Service Awards (DSA) Honorees (click on names below for details):
Hon. Wendy Sherman
(2024)
Hon. Henrietta Fore
(2022)
Amb. Thomas A. Shannon
(2020/2021)
Amb. William J. Burns
(2019)
Amb. William Lacey Swing
(2018)
Amb. Walter L. Cutler
(2017)
Sens. Richard Lugar
and Sam Nunn (2016)
Distinguished Service Award
The Distinguished Service Award for the Advancement of Public Discourse in Foreign Policy
The American Committees on Foreign Relations established its Distinguished Service Award for the Advancement of Public Discourse on Foreign Policy in 2006 to honor outstanding public figures who engage American civic leaders in a discourse on foreign relations and to recognize the contributions of concerned citizens who are international actors in their own significant ways.
For more about the 2023 Distinguished Service Award honoree, Henrietta Holsman Fore, please click here.
The Past Recipients of ACFR’s Distinguished Service Award
The following shows all recipients of ACFR’s Distinguished Service Award.
Wendy Sherman
2024
Former Deputy Secretary of State
Henrietta Fore
2022
Former Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Thomas A. Shannon, Jr.
2020/2021
Ambassador
William J. Burns
2019
Ambassador
William Lacey Swing
2018
Ambassador
Walter L. Cutler
2017
Ambassador
Richard Lugar
2016 (Joint)
Senator
Sam Nunn
2016 (Joint)
Senator
Paula Dobriansky
2015
Ambassador
John Negroponte
2014
Ambassador
Husain Haqqani
2012
Ambassador
Ryan Crocker
2011
Ambassador
Richard N. Haas
2010
Jim Lehrer
2009
Journalist
James L. Jones
2007
General, USMC (Ret.)
Robert Oakley
2006 (Joint)
Ambassador
Donald P. Gregg
2006 (Joint)
Ambassador