The Theresa Award

  
The Theresa Award is an annual community service award presented by the Theresa Alessandra Russo Foundation to a NAELA member in recognition of their advocacy and support of individuals with disabilities.

Award recipients choose an organization to receive a $5,000 grant from the Theresa Foundation. Since establishing the award in 1995, the Theresa Foundation has distributed over $100,000 in grants across the country in honor of the award recipients.

2025 - James A. Caffry, Esq.
2024 - Lee M. Holmes, CELA, Fellow
2023 - Laurie A. Hanson, Esq.
2022 - Peter J. Strauss, Fellow
2021 - Annette M. Hines, Esq.
2020 - Michael Gilfix, CAP, Fellow, and Myra G. Gilfix, Fellow
2019 - Tim Nay, Fellow
2018 - Alfred “Chip” Chiplin Jr., Fellow (posthumously)
2017 - H. Amos Goodall Jr., CELA, Fellow, and Kelly Piacenti
2016 - Elizabethanne Miller Angevine
2015 - Mary Alice Jackson, Fellow
2014 - Michael J. Amoruso, Fellow
2013 - John J. Ford
2012 - Joan Lensky Robert, CELA, CAP
2011 - Renee Colwill Lovelace, CELA
2010 - Stephen W. Dale
2009 - Richard A. Courtney, CELA, CAP, Fellow
2008 - Rebecca C. Morgan, CAP, Fellow
2007 - Emily S. Starr, CELA, Fellow
2006 - Charles P. Sabatino, Fellow
2005 - Stephen J. Silverberg, CELA, CAP, Fellow
2004 - Judith A. Stein, Fellow
2003 - Mary T. Schmitt Smith, CELA, Fellow
2002 - Kate A. Mewhinney, CELA, Fellow
2001 - Rene H. Reixach, Fellow
2000 - Charles R. Robert
1999 - Allan D. Bogutz, CELA, Fellow
1998 - Donna R. Bashaw, CELA, Fellow
1997 - Scott R. Severns, CELA, Fellow
1996 - A. Frank Johns, CELA, Fellow
1995 - Ira S. Wiesner, CELA, Fellow