Past Award Recipients
2018
Beth Hammack
Daryl Roth
2017
Debra Messing
Ann M. Sarnoff
2016
Martha Plimpton
Jenna Segal
Trudie Styler
2015
Tyne Daly
Stephanie George
Carolyn Tastad
2014
Sharon Bush
Arianna Huffington
Joan Vail Thorne
2013
Joanna Coles
Helen Gurley Brown (posthumously)
Donna Kalajian Lagani
Sheila Nevins
Charlotte St. Martin
2012
Thia Breen
Liz Duffy Adams
Barbara Goldsmith
Cornelia Guest
2011
Bonnie Pfeifer Evans
Mindy Grossman
Bebe Neuwirth
2010
Laurie Anderson
Joan Osborne
Suzanne Vega
2009
Lucia Hwong Gordon
Estelle Parsons
Susan K. Reed
Susan Sobbott
2008
Iris Cantor
Laurie Tucker
Kerry Washington
2007
Eve Ensler
Kathy Hilton
Vivienne Tam
2006
Francine LeFrak
Susan Lucci
Muriel Siebert
2005
Adrien Arpel
Mariska Hargitay
Caroline Hirsch
Emily Mann
Frances Sternhagen
2004
Robin Burns
Donna Murphy
Gail Sheehy
Susan Wadsworth
2003
Bobbi Brown
Tina Chen
Chita Rivera
Isabelle Stevenson
2002
Julie Harris
Phylicia Rashad
Nina Zagat
2001
Evelyn Cunningham
Audra McDonald
Laura Pels
Twyla Tharp
Irene Worth
Eugenia Zuckerman
2000
Lauren Bacall
Carole Black
Ruby Dee
Joan Didion
1999
Dame Judi Dench
Patricia Fili-Krushel
Vanessa Redgrave
Susan L. Taylor
Gerald Schoenfeld
1998
Dr. Maya Angelou
Sallie Bingham
Whoopi Goldberg
Julia Miles
1997
Stockard Channing
Annette Green
Marilyn Horne
Rosie O’Donnell
1996
Zoe Caldwell
Camille Cosby
Elinor Guggenheimer
Pat Schoenfeld
1995
Blair Brown
Katie Couric
Donna Hanover-Guiliani
Yue-Sai Kan
1994
Linda Fairstein
Sherry Lansing
Lily Tomlin
Evelyn Lauder
1993
Tina Brown
Kitty Carlisle Hart
Cicely Tyson
Barbara Walters
1992
Linda Ellerbee
Nora Ephron
Jessica Lange
Annie Leibovitz
Bette Bao Lord
1991
Ellen Futter
Donna Karan
Anna Quindlen
Susan Sarandon
Faye Wattleton
1990
Imogene Coca
Suzanne Farrell
Mother Clara Hale
Kathleen Turner
1989
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Jewell Jackson McCabe
Gloria Steinem
Kaity Tong
Wendy Wasserstein
1988
Betty Allen
Diane Coffey
Glenda Jackson
Dr. Mathilde Krim
Diane Sawyer
1987
Betty Friedan
Judith Jamison
Toni Morrison
Beverly Sills
Jessica Tandy
1986
Colleen Dewhurst
Maria Irene Fornes
Billie Jean King-Blackman
Lucille Lortel
Ruth Mayleas