WHEMN Leadership Award

Submission Deadline: Dec. 15, 2023

Women in Higher Education—Mississippi Network (WHEMN) invites your nominations for the WHEMN Leadership Award. This award was established to recognize women who have demonstrated their leadership and commitment to the advancement of women in higher education.

The nominee should be a woman who is synonymous with mentoring other women. She should have demonstrated leadership skills and established practices of enhancing campus climate by finding ways and means to inspire her colleagues and institution to higher levels of achievement.

The WHEMN Leadership Award will honor an actively employed woman who serves as a role model for all women of all ages and career paths. She should be a woman recognized for her advocacy of women’s issues. She would be noted for her innovative approach to leadership challenges. Her attitude, values, and actions represent her philosophy of how she inspires positive changes in her work environment and her community.

The President of your College or University should submit all nomination packets. Nominations must include the nomination form (attached), a 500-word biographical sketch of the nominee, contact information of the nominee, and a letter of nomination from the President addressing the criteria listed above.

Please submit your nomination by e-mail to whemn@olemiss.edu.

A Legacy of Leadership Awardees

2006: Gloria Kellum, University of Mississippi
2007: Myrtis Tabb, Delta State University
2008: Frances Lucas, Millsaps College
2009: Helen Turner, University of Mississippi Medical Center
2010: Amy Tuck, Mississippi State University
2011: Anna Faye Kelley-Winders, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
2012: Jan Reid-Bunch, Itawamba Community College
2013: Loretta Moore, Jackson State University
2014: Deborah Gilbert, Mississippi Community College Board
2015: Colleen Hartfield, Hinds Community College
2016: Laura Damm, East Mississippi Community College
2017: Judith Spencer, Mississippi State University
2018: Phyllis Johnson, Northwest Mississippi Community College
2019: Jackie Martin, Copiah-Lincoln Community College
2020: Ra’Sheda Boddie-Forbes, Mississippi State University
2022: Sharon Freeman, Mississippi Valley State University
2023: Heather Annulis, University of Southern Mississippi
2024: Leia Hill, Meridian Community College