Nominations are now being accepted for the 2025 Alumni Service Award.
What is the Alumni Service Award?
Each year, the UVA Alumni Association’s Young Alumni Council (YAC) honors two outstanding alumni who have gone above and beyond to serve the UVA community through transformative individual or collective efforts with the Alumni Service Award.
Service Award winners have the opportunity to amplify their impact by directing a $1,000 gift, funded by YAC, to the University entity of their choice. This gift pays tribute to award winners’ service.
Service Award winners must be graduates of the University of Virginia and can be nominated by any member(s) of the UVA community: fellow alumni, University faculty and staff, students, clubs and organizations, and staff members of University-affiliated foundations.
What makes an Alumni Service Award winner?
Alumni Service Award winners demonstrate exemplary personal service and commitment to UVA. Their service may be exhibited through a single extraordinary endeavor, or an enduring commitment to bettering the University community over time.
Alumni Service Award winners’ actions and commitment should embody the core values of the Alumni Association: Integrity, Inclusion, Connection, Innovation, and Service.
How to Nominate
To nominate an alum for the 2025 YAC Service Award, please complete this nomination form by January 15, 2025.
Nominations should highlight the nominee’s service activities and engagements, volunteer or leadership roles, positive impact on the UVA community, and demonstration of the Alumni Association’s core values.
Service Award nominees may remain in the award selection pool for three award cycles following the submission of their nomination.
Please contact Mariel Childress with questions.
Past Winners
- 2021—Dan Adler, ’88; Victoria Nguyen, ’16
- 2020—Amanda Upson, ’95; Christina Polenta, ’09
- 2019—Peter Grant, ’78, ’86; Khalifa Lee, ’09
- 2018—Quentin Washington, ’04; Ann V. Lastuvka, ’08
- 2017—George K. Martin, ’75; Patricia B. Woodard, ’69
- 2016—Allison Cryor DiNardo, ’82, ’88; Jeffrey C. Walker, ‘77
- 2015—Mary Elizabeth Luzar, ’02, ’09; James K. Wood, ’74
- 2014—Tamira D. Roberson, ’09
- 2013—Javona L. Braxton ’99; Ivan A. Vallarino, Jr. ’05
- 2012—Lucien L. Bass, III ’63, ’65
- 2011—Tom Darbyshire ’82
- 2010—Gina Marie Flores ’00
- 2009—Leigh B. Middleditch, ’51
- 2008—James T. Fang ’95; Gordon F. Rainey, ’62
- 2007—S. Sean Kelleher ’83; Jason Bornfruend ’97
- 2006—Lisa Marie Kelley ’99; Calvert Saunders Moore ’90
- 2005—Susan Y. (Syd) Dorsey ’82, ’87
- 2004—Glynn D. Key ’86, ’89
- 2003—John A. Griffin ’85