AOTA AWARD OF MERIT Recipients
To recognize occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants who have made notable contributions to the profession and its consumers in a focused area of occupational therapy practice.
2011 Kielhofner, Gary (Posthumous)
2010 Carrasco, Richardo C.
2009 Kornblau, Barbara L.
2008 Foto, Mary Elizabeth Smith
2007 Clark, David D.
2006 Gillette, Nedra
2004 Miller, Lucy Jane
2003 Jacobs, Karen
Ottenbacher, Kenneth J.
2001 Anderson, Reba
Fine, Susan B.
Rourk, Jane Davis
2000 Evert, Mary Margaret
Grady, Ann P.
1999 Clark, Florence A.
1998 Stattel, Florence
1997 Kolodner, Ellen L.
1996 Hansen, Ruth
Izutsu, Satoru
1995 Predergast, Nancy D.
1994 Hinojosa, Jim
1993 Henderson, Anne
1992 Gilkeson, Grace E.
Mitchell, Marlys
1991 Dunn, Winifred W.
Gilfoyle, Elnora M.
1990 Rogers, Joan C.
1989 Hays, Carole Ann
1988 Tyndall, Dean R.
1987 Bing, Robert Kendall
Yerxa, Elizabeth J.
1986 Llorens, Lela A.
Slominski, Anita H.
1985 Jaffe, Evelyn Grossman
1984 Baum, Carolyn Manville
Devereaux, Elizabeth B.
Hamant, Celestine
Sammons, Fred
1983 Hightower VanDamm, May D.
Reed, Kathlyn L.
1982 Butz, Clyde W.
1980 Fidler, Gail S.
1979 Jantzen, Alice C.
Johnson, Jerry A.
1978 Moersch, Martha T.
1977 Matthews, Martha E.
1976 Hopkins, Helen L.
Kilburn, Virginia T.
Schwagmeyer, Mildred
1975 Welles, Carlotta
1974 Cromwell, Florence S.
1973 Hollis, L. Irene
1972 Crampton, Marion W.
1971 Spelbring, Lyla M.
1968 McDaniel, Myra L.
Wiemer, Ruth Brunyate
1967 Gleave, G. Margaret
1965 Ayres, A. Jean
Jeffers, Lucie Spence
1964 Fish, Marjorie
1962 Wade, Beatrice D.
1960 Spear, Marion R.
1959 Robinson, Ruth A.
1957 Dunton, William Rush
1956 Rouse, Dorothy D.
Spackmann, Claire S.
1955 McNary, Henrietta
1954 Taylor, Marjorie M.
Willard, Helen S.
1952 Kahmann, Winifred C.
1951 Greene, Marjorie B.
West, Wilma L.
1950 Munzesheimer, Eva Otto
