WIIT Award Recipients

Outstanding Woman of the Year

2007 USTR Ambassador Susan Schwab

2006 Hon. Blanche Lambert Lincoln, Member of the U.S. Senate

2005 Catherine A. Novelli, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe and the Mediterranean

2004 Hon. Jennifer Dunn, Member U.S. House of Representatives

2003 Regina Vargo, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative

2002 Rosa Whitaker, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative

2001 Hon. Ann Veneman, Secretary of Agriculture

2000 Hon. Charlene Barshefsky, United States Trade Representative

1999 Hon. Nancy Johnson, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives

1998 Thelma Askey, Staff Director, Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives

1997 Hon. Marcia Miller, Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission

1996 Hon. Ruth Harkin, President and Chief Executive Officer, Overseas Private Investment Corporation

1995 Hon. Janet Nuzum, Vice Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission

1994 Ruth Kurtz, Washington representative for NAFTA Business Consortium

1993 Sandra Kristoff, Director of Asian Affairs, National Security Council

1992 Julia Hughes, Vice President, Associated Merchandising Corporation

1991 Judith Bello, Partner, Sidley & Austin

1990 Doreen Brown, President, Consumers for World Trade

1990 Ann Hughes, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Western Hemisphere