Past Awardees

2023 – Drs. Jennifer & Howard Liu

2016 – Jim & Diny Landen – Chairman and CEO, Security National Bank and

media executive

2015 – Wally & Barbara Weitz – Founder, Weitz Investment Funds and retired

professor of social work and community volunteer

2014 – Harold M. Maurer M.D., & Beverly Maurer – Chancellor Emeritus, University

of Nebraska Medical Center and community volunteer

2013 – John & Lynne Boyer – Partner, Fraser Stryker and community volunteer

2012 – Fred & Eve Simon – Executive Vice President and owner, Omaha Steaks and

community volunteer

2011 – Linda & Charles Wilson, M.D. – Former member of Lincoln City Council and

Lincoln-Lancaster Building Commission and co-founder and president of the

Nebraska Heart Institute and Lincoln cardiologist

2011 – Walter & Suzanne Scott – Chairman and CEO, Kiewit Sons and

community volunteer

2010 – Michael Yanney & Gail Walling Yanney, M.D. – Chairman Emeritus of the

Board of The Burlington Capital Group LLC and retired physician; co-chairs

of University of Nebraska Medical Center Campaign for Nebraska

2009 – Dorothy & Stanley Truhlsen, M.D. – Community volunteer and Emeritus

Professor and former Chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology,

University of Nebraska Medical Center

2008 – Richard Dean Holland – Former advertising executive and philanthropist

2007 – James O. Armitage, M.D. – Joe Shapiro Professor of Medicine in Oncology/

Hematology, University of Nebraska Medical Center

2006 – Harold & Marian Andersen – Former Publisher of the Omaha World-Herald

and community volunteer

2005 – Rik Bonness & Shannon Bonness, M.D. – Activists for life-saving research

whose two sons have juvenile diabetes

2004 – Michael F. Sorrell, M.D. – Professor of Internal Medicine, Chief of

Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Nebraska Medical Center

2003 – Charles Durham – Chairman and CEO, Durham Resources