TAANA Awards

Outstanding Chapter Award

Members recommended a chapter by completing an application form and portfolio with visual and other descriptive materials that documented the following criteria: excellence in providing resources, education, and leadership to its members and the health care and legal communities. Two letters of support by TAANA members accompanied the application.

  • 2005 - New York Metropolitan Chapter
  • 2006 - New England Chapter
  • 2007 - No Award Given
  • 2008 - No Award Given
  • 2009 - Connecticut Chapter and Texas Chapter

Outstanding Section Member Award

TAANA established the Outstanding Section Member Award to recognize members of each TAANA Section (Education; Litigation; Legal Nurse Consulting; Health Law, Legislation, and Compliance; and Students). The recipient of the award has demonstrated excellence in providing resources, education, and leadership to the section members, the health care and legal communities, and TAANA as a whole.

Education Section
  • 2005 - Laurie Badzek
  • 2006 - Janet Feldkamp
  • 2007 - Teressa Sanzio, Sharon Bridges
  • 2008 - No Award Given
  • 2009 - No Award Given
Students Section
  • 2005 - Daniel Tounsel III
  • 2006 - Jean Kasper
  • 2007 - No Award Given
  • 2008 - No Award Given
  • 2009 - No Award Given

Health Law, Legislation, & Compliance Section

  • 2005 - Amy Jerdee
  • 2006 - LaTonya Wright
  • 2007 - Randi Kopf
  • 2008 - No Award Given
  • 2009 - No Award Given
Legal Nurse Consulting Section
  • 2005 - Conswella Byrd
  • 2006 - Meredith Chiarelli
  • 2007 - No Award Given
  • 2008 - No Award Given
  • 2009 - No Award Given
Litigation Section
  • 2005 - Karen Butler
  • 2006 - Trudy Kiaunis
  • 2007 - Daneil McAuliffe
  • 2008 - Diane Warlick
  • 2009 - Kathleen Kearney

Outstanding Advocate Award

TAANA established the Outstanding Advocate Award to recognize an individual member's outstanding legal advocacy. The Awards Committee recognizes that a nurse attorney can be an advocate in various ways, such as making an impact on legislation, authoring scholarly works such as law review articles, books, journal articles, as well as achieving significant rulings in appellate practice, trial practice, and administrative law practice (e.g., hearings before various state boards). The award is intended to give recognition to a member whose legal theories, strategies, and abilities demonstrate outstanding advocacy.

Former Outstanding Advocate Award Recipients

  • 1986 - Mary E. Kelly
  • 1987 - Jill M. Follows
  • 1988 - Marie E. Snyder
  • 1989 - Cynthia E. Northrop*, Kathleen Flynn Peterson
  • 1990 - No Award Given
  • 1991 - No Award Given
  • 1992 - Kathleen E. Hastings
  • 1993 - Virginia Trotter Betts
  • 1994 - Kathleen H. Switzer
  • 1995 - Diane M. Rodriguez
  • 1996 - Penny G. Westfall
  • 1997 - Peggy L. B. Nakamura
  • 1998 - Diane K. Kjervik
  • 1999 - No Award Given
  • 2000 - No Award Given
  • 2001 - Joanne Sheehan
  • 2002 - Penny Brooke
  • 2003 - Karen Butler
  • 2004 - Diane K. Kjervik
  • 2005 - Phyllis Gallagher
  • 2006 - Suzanne Edgett Collins
  • 2007 - Janet Michael
  • 2008 - Edie Brous
  • 2009 - No Award Given

* = deceased

Cynthia Northrop Distinguished Service Award

The TAANA Foundation established the Cynthia Northrop Distinguished Service Award to recognize an individual member's leadership role in, and significant contributions to, TAANA. The award is named for Cynthia Ellen Northrop, who died in November 1989 at the age of 39. Cynthia was the founder of TAANA and served as its first president.

The award is intended to serve as an expression of sincere gratitude for the member's committed leadership, participation in, and contributions to the purposes of TAANA and its growth as the professional association for nurse attorneys.

Former Recipients of the Cynthia Northrop Distinguished
Service Award

  • 1986 - Cynthia E. Northrop*
  • 1987 - Diane Trace Warlick
  • 1988 - Katherine J. Pohlman
  • 1989 - Cynthia E. Northrop*
  • 1990 - Sandra Berkowitz
  • 1991 - Felice Quigley
  • 1992 - No Award Given
  • 1993 - D. M. Boulay
  • 1994 - Tamara Todd Cotton, Karen Shedd Guarino
  • 1995 - Tonia D. Aiken
  • 1996 - Julie Bargnesi
  • 1997 - No Award Given
  • 1998 - Linda M. E. Auton
  • 1999 - No Award Given
  • 2000 - No Award Given
  • 2001 - Paula DiMeo Grant
  • 2002 - Sally Austin
  • 2003 - Elizabeth Beall
  • 2004 - Randi Kopf
  • 2005 - Cynthia Mikos, Susan Ziel
  • 2006 - Rosemary Conlon McCarthy
  • 2007 - Amy Jerdee
  • 2008 - Janet Feldkamp
  • 2009 - Trudy Kiaunis

* = deceased

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