The F. Sadlier Dinger Award (NCEA)

2019 William Sadlier Dinger

President Emeritus
William H. Sadlier, Inc.

2018 Dale McDonald, PBVM, Ph.D.

Director of Public Policy and Educational Research at the National Catholic Educational Association

2017 Deborah Pecher, Principal

Sts. Joachim and Ann School
St. Charles, Missouri

2016 Regina M. Haney, Ed.D

Executive Director (1990–2015)
National Association of Church Personnel
Administrators
Executive Director
Boards and Councils Department
National Catholic Educational Association

2015 D. Michael McCarron, Ph.D.

Executive Director (1995–2013)
Florida Catholic Conference

2014 Cardinal Donald Wuerl

Archbishop of Washington

2013 Daniel F. Curtin

Executive Director (1999–2011)
Chief Administrators of Catholic Education
National Catholic Educational Association

2012 William P. Leahy, S.J.

President
Boston College

2011 Sister Immaculata Paisant, MSC

Superintendent of Catholic Schools
Diocese of Houma–Thibodaux

2010 Lorraine A. Ozar, Ph.D.

Director
Center for Catholic School Effectiveness
Associate Professor
School of Education
Loyola University Chicago

2009 Most Reverend Gregory M. Aymond

Bishop of Austin
Former Chair
NCEA Board of Directors

2008 Annette “Mickey” Lentz

Executive Director
Secretariat for Catholic Education and Faith Formation
Archdiocese of Indianapolis

2007 Award

2006 Sister Mary Michaeline Green, OP

Superintendent of Schools
Diocese of Baton Rouge

2005 Sr. Mary Angela Shaughnessy, SCN, J.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Education
Spalding University
Executive Director, Education Law Institute

2004 Rev. Joseph M. O’Keefe, SJ, S.T.L., Ed.D.

Interim Dean, Lynch School of Education
Boston College

2003 Rev. Thomas E. Toale, Ph.D.

Vicar for Education
Superintendent of Schools
Archdiocese of Dubuque

2002 Sister Dominica Rocchio, SC, Ed.D.

Secretary for Education
Superintendent of Schools
Archdiocese of Newark

2001 Sister Lourdes Sheehan, RSM

Associate General Secretary
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

2000 Pio Cardinal Laghi

Prefect Emeritus
Congregation for Catholic Education
Vatican City

1999 Howard J. Jenkins

Superintendent of Schools (1972–1998)
Archdiocese of New Orleans

1998 Dolores R. Leckey

Executive Director (1988–1997)
Secretariat for Family, Laity, Women
and Youth
National Conference of Catholic Bishops

1997 Monika K. Hellwig, Ph.D.

Executive Director
Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities

1996 Most Reverend Christoph Schönborn, OP

Archbishop of Vienna
General Editor
Catechism of the Catholic Church

1995 Sister Anne C. Leonard, CND

Director of Education
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1994 Sister Clare Fitzgerald, SSND

Director
Catholic School Leadership Program
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

1993 Sister Mary Louisette DeSalle, SSF

Principal
House of the Holy Family
New Orleans, Louisiana

1992 Chief Administrators of
Catholic Education

National Catholic Educational Association
Washington, DC

1991 National “Faith Alive” Family Catholic School

The Salcedo Family
Archdiocese of Miami

Parish School of Religion

The Kochman Family
Archdiocese of Chicago

1990 Reverend William J. O’Malley, SJ

International Author, Speaker, Teacher
Fordham Preparatory School
Bronx, New York

1989 Joseph Cardinal Bernardin

Archbishop of Chicago

1988 Terence Cardinal Cooke

Archbishop of New York (Posthumously)

1987 Sister Mary Peter Traviss, OP, Ph.D.

Professor
University of San Francisco

1986 Reverend Thomas V. Gallagher

Secretary for Education
United States Catholic Conference

1985 Sister Loretta Carey, RDC

Director
Fordham/NCEA Center for Justice, Peace, and Education

1984 Sister Rose Anita McDonnell, IHM

Author, Educator

1983 Sister Francis Regis Trojano, CSJ

Superintendent of Schools
Diocese of Memphis

1982 Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh

President
University of Notre Dame

1981 Reverend Andrew M. Greeley

Professor of Sociology
University of Arizona

1980 Reverend John F. Meyers

President
National Catholic Educational Association