by jhight | Feb 6, 2022 | 2022 Lifetime Achievement Awards, All Lifetime Achievement Awards
2022 Lifetime Achievement Award DREW EDMONDSON (1946- ) was Oklahoma Attorney General from 1995-2011. His 58 opinions defending the Open Meeting and Open Records Acts strengthened citizen access to government. He sued the tobacco industry, winning a national...
by esiddiqui2 | Apr 9, 2020 | 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award, All Lifetime Achievement Awards
2018 Lifetime Achievement Award DR. JOE FOOTE (1949- ) was Dean of the Gaylord College at the University of Oklahoma from 2004 to 2015 and is now Dean Emeritus. He was Director of the Walter Cronkite School at Arizona State, a journalism dean at Southern Illinois...
by esiddiqui2 | Apr 9, 2020 | 2019 Lifetime Achievement Awards, All Lifetime Achievement Awards
2019 Lifetime Achievement Award DR. DON BETZ (1945- ) Betz began his distinguished career in higher education as a member of the Faculty/Administration at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah in 1971. Betz would remain in this position until 1994 when he...
by esiddiqui2 | Apr 9, 2020 | 2019, 2019, 2019 Lifetime Achievement Awards, All Lifetime Achievement Awards, Lifetime Achievement Awards
2019 Lifetime Achievement Award DR. W. ROGER WEBB (1941- ) Webb’s professional career began in law enforcement, where he served 12 years with the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety and as Commissioner of Public Safety for the State of Oklahoma from 1974-78....
by esiddiqui2 | Apr 9, 2020 | 1992 Lifetime Achievement Award, All Lifetime Achievement Awards, Lifetime Achievement Awards
1992 Lifetime Achievement Award WINDSOR RIDENOUR (1938-2019) was a journalist and leader who started as a reporter for The Tulsa Tribune. He became the Oklahoma City bureau chief, then city editor and assistant managing editor before becoming executive editor in 1989....
by esiddiqui2 | Apr 9, 2020 | 2020 Lifetime Achievement Awards, All Lifetime Achievement Awards
2020-2021 Lifetime Achievement Award ROBERT (BOB) K. GOODWIN (1948- ) shares a long family history of service in journalism, community leadership, and civil rights. As the fourth of his family to receive recognition from the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame, Robert...