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Recipients of The University Medal for Distinguished Meritorious Service at Duke

  • 1986 Mary Semans (Trustee) & R. Taylor Cole (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1987 Juanita Kreps (Trustee) & Reynolds Price (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1988 W. M. Upchurch Jr. (Trustee) & Richard L. Watson Jr. (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1989 Kenneth Goodson (Trustee) & Marcus E. Hobbs (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1990 Charles B. Wade (Trustee) & Mary Grace Wilson (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1991 Marshall I. Pickens (Trustee) & Anne Firor Scott (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1992 David C. Sabiston Jr. (Faculty/Staff) & Terry Sanford (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1993 Samuel Dubois Cook (Trustee) & Pelham Wilder Jr. (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1994 Isobel Craven Drill (Trustee) & Paul J. Dumas (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1995 John W. Chandler (Trustee) & Anne Walker Garrard (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1996 William Griffith (Faculty/Staff) & Eugene Stead MD (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1997 Charles Johnson (Faculty/Staff) & Mike Krzyzewski (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1998 Thomas Langford (Faculty/Staff)
  • 1999 The award was not given. Honorary degrees were awarded to Anthony D. Duke & James H. Semans instead.
  • 2000 Robert F. Durden (Faculty/Staff) & Ella Fountain Pratt (Faculty/Staff)
  • 2001 Susan Bennett King (Trustee) & Thomas F. Keller (Faculty/Staff)
  • 2002 William G. Anlyan (Faculty/Staff) & John Alexander McMahon (Trustee)
  • 2003 Joseph G. Pietrantoni (Faculty/Staff), Nannerl O. Keohane (Faculty/Staff) and A. Morris Williams, Jr. (Trustee)
  • 2004 Ernestine Friedl (Faculty/Staff) & Samuel L. Katz (Faculty/Staff)
  • 2005 William E. King (Faculty/Staff)
  • 2006 Ruby Leila Wilson (Faculty/Staff) and William “Jimmy” Wallace Jr. (Faculty/Staff)