Trumpeter Awards winners
Learn about NCL’s Florence Kelley Consumer Leadership Award
2019
Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO
2018
Senator Tammy Duckworth
Senator Ed Markey
2017
Congressman John Lewis
CFPB Director Richard Cordray
2016
Attorney General Lisa Madigan
2015
The Honorable Edith Ramirez, FTC
Senator Amy Klobuchar
2014
Richard L. Trumka, President AFL-CIO
2013
FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn (pictured at right)
Special honors: Consumer and Labor Leadership Awards to Senators Tom Harkin and Jay Rockefeller
2012
Cecil E. Roberts, United Mine Workers of America
2011
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg
Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers
2010
Kenneth Feinberg
Surgeon General Regina Benjamin
2009
Steve Kroft
Hilda Solis
2008
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal
Barbara Ehrenreich
2007
Linda Golodner
2006
Senator Paul Sarbanes
Herb Weisbaum
2005
Jane Bryant Quinn
Deborah Kaplan
2004
Morton Bahr
Judy Feder
2003
Senator Jon Corzine
Congressman Tom Lantos
2002
Senator Carl Levin
Michelle Singletary
2001
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Senator Paul Wellstone
2000
Joan Z. (Jodie) Bernstein
Congressman David E. Bonior
Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher
1999
Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman
“Frontline”
1998
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Broad Meadows Middle School, Quincy, MA
1997
Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Carol Tucker Foreman
1996
Secretary of Labor Robert Reich
1995
Minnesota Attorney General Hubert Humphrey III
New York City District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau
Chairman Kailash Satyarthi, South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude
Special Recognition: Meredith M. Layer, former Senior Vice President for Public Responsibility, American Express Company
1994
FDA Commissioner David Kessler
Bert Seidman
1993
Senator Tom Harkin
Dolores Huerta
1992
Senator Jay Rockefeller
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
1991
Dr. Arnold S. Relman
Jack Blum
1990
Congressman Don Pease
Lynn Williams
Special Recognition: Bonnie Guiton
1989
Susan King
Congressman George Miller
1988
Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder
Congressman Peter Rodino
Special Recognition: Susanne Zwemer
1987
Arthur Flemming
Marian Wright Edelman
1986
Congressman Gus Hawkins
Senator Charles Mathias
1985
Betty Furness
Sarah Newman
Congressman Henry Waxman
Qazi Shaukat Fareed
1984
Douglas Fraser
1983
Ig Falk
Special Recognition: Jane Brody, Penny Wise Budoff, Rose Kushner, Fitzhugh Mullan, Natalie Spingarn
1982
Congressman Claude Pepper
1981
Esther Peterson
1980
Lady Bird Johnson (posthumously for President Johnson)
W. Averell Harriman
1979
Jacob Clayman
Robert Nathan
1978
Senator Harrison A. Williams
Caroline Ware
1977
Senator Warren Magnuson
Evelyn Dubrow
1976
Senator Philip A. Hart
Congresswoman Leonor K. Sullivan
Maida Springer Kemp
1975
Senator Alan Cranston
Senator Charles Percy
Special Recognition: Clara Beyer, Edith Sloan, Virginia Knauer, Bess Myerson
1973
Senator Edward Kennedy
The Florence Kelley Consumer Leadership Award
Named for NCL’s first general secretary and Progressive Era pioneer, Florence Kelley, the consumer leadership award is given to individuals, who in the spirit of NCL’s early leader, at a grass-roots level, have willingly given of their time, passion, and energy to important causes that may not be popular. Florence Kelley Consumer Leadership Award recipients are honored for their commitment to social justice for consumers and workers, their vision, their activism, and their dedication.
In the spirit of NCL’s first general secretary and Progressive Era pioneer Florence Kelley, the Consumer Leadership Award is given to individuals, who at the grassroots level willingly give of their time, passion, and energy to important causes that may not be popular. The Florence Kelley Consumer Leadership Award recipients are honored for their commitment to social justice for consumers and workers, and for their vision, activism, and dedication.
Past Recipients
2019 Bonnie Patten
2018 Eva Casey-Velasquez
2017 Dr. Janet Woodcock
2016 Dr. Richard Pan
Karen Peltz Strauss
2015 Maria Elena Durazo
2014 Lara Granich
2013 Dana Wiggins
2012 Linda Hilton
2011 Paheadra Robinson
2010 Jean Ann Fox
2009 Lynn Jiminez
2006 Pastor Herrera, Jr.
2005 James B. Leonard, Claire White
2004 Brandolyn Clanton Pinkston
2003 Mary Gardiner Jones, Jane Delgado
2002 Florence Rice
2001 Ken McEldowney
2000 Jack Blum
1999 Evelyn Dubrow
1998 Rosella Bannister
1997 Esther Shapiro
1996 Ruth Jordan
1995 Erma Angevine
