Awards and Honors
2019: Aiden Lee Reece
2016: Roman Comer
2010: Geronn Moore
2006: Tierra French
2001: Frederick Harris
2014: Edward Johnson
2009: Alonzo Coleman
2004: Drew Farmer
2013: Drake Dudley
2008: John Little, III
2002: Reginald D. Taylor
2022: Sheila Calloway
2019: A.C. Wharton
2016: Jim Henry
2021: Carla Snodgrass
2018: Doug Overbey
2015: Dwight Stokes
2020: Michael Meise
2017: Mary Rolando
2014: Douglas Henry
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: FEBRUARY 4, 2022
The Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth (TCCY) awarded its first Jim Pryor Child Advocacy Award posthumously to Jim Pryor in March 1995. Pryor, who passed away in May of 1994, was a member of TCCY and an outstanding advocate for children. He was an attorney, a former assistant district attorney, a member of the state Child Sexual Abuse Task Force, and an active member of the Northeast Regional Council on Children and Youth.
A new award recipient is designated each year. Nominations for this year’s award are being accepted now. Previous award recipients were the following:
2022: Matthew Marshall
2019: Kristen Rector
2016: Bonnie Beneke & Jan Dick
2013: Betty Adams Green
2010: Connie Hall Givens
2007: Marilyn Davis
2004: Emmy Haney
2001: Merril Harris
1998: Ann Ince & Steve Jones
1995: Jim Pryor
2021: Sandra Allen
2018: Matt Timm
2015: Barbara Holden Nixon
2012: Cindy Durham
2009: Joetta Yarbro
2006: Linda Moynihan
2003: Phil Acord
2000: Trudy Hughes & Sandi Fisher
1997: Tommy Perkins
2020: Kathy Benedetto
2017: Loraine Lucinski
2014: James Martin
2011: Timothy Perry
2008: Betty Rasberry
2005: Jody Roberts
2002: George Spain
1999: May Shayne
1996: Art Masker
