RWA Emma Merritt Service Award
The RWA Emma Merritt Service Award is presented for the accumulated body of work a member has contributed as a volunteer to RWA. The award is not only for service to individual chapters, but is intended to honor major commitments of service to RWA. A member may receive the RWA Emma Merritt Service Award only once in a lifetime. In the past, the RWA Emma Merritt Service Award has also been known as the Golden Rose and the National Service Award.
2025 RWA Emma Merritt Award Recipient
No award given in 2025.
Past Emma Merritt Service Award Recipients
- 2024: No award given
- 2023: No award given
- 2022: No award given
- 2021: Alyssa Day
- 2020: No award given
- 2019: Dee Davis
- 2018: Leslie Kelly
- 2017: Cindy Kirk
- 2016: Nikki Enlow
- 2015: Lorraine Heath
- 2014: Trish Milburn
- 2013: Nancy Haddock
- 2012: Laura Hayden
- 2011: Michelle Monkou
- 2010: Jennifer Crusie
- 2009: Sherry Lewis
- 2008: Linda Winstead Jones
- 2007: Gayle Wilson
- 2006: Shirley Hailstock
- 2005: Carol Prescott
- 2004: Alicia Rasley
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- 2003: Debra Dixon
- 2001: Libby Hall
- 2000: Claudia Yates
- 1999: Janis Reams Hudson
- 1998: Robin Lee Hatcher
- 1997: JoAnn Ferguson
- 1996: Christine Pacheco
- 1995: Rita Gallagher, Cathie Linz, Debbie Macomber, & Karan Richardson
- 1994: Margaret Brownley, Patt Marr, & Maggie Osborne
- 1993: Darlene Layman, Harold Lowry, aka Leigh Greenwood, & Nora Simpson
- 1992: Emma Merritt
- 1991: Kathy Clark & Jeanne Triner
- 1990: Marian Jones
- 1989: Jan Milella
- 1988: Jasmine Cresswell & Selwyn Young
- 1987: Linda Nusser
- 1986: JoAnn Ross
- 1985: Marianne Willman
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Historical Note: from 1985 through 1989 the award was known as the Golden Rose. From 1990 through 1995 it was known as the National Service Award.
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