Distinguished Alumna Award

Nominations are now closed for the 2024 Distinguished Alumna Award. The Distinguished Alumna award honors a woman who makes a difference in her walk of life and exemplifies and supports the Mercy Core Values of Compelled by Mercy, Educational Courage, Inspired by Faith, Principled Leadership and A Voice For Dignity and Respect.

Distinguished Alumna Recipients

  • 2022 - Marisa Petrella '77† and Chris-Tia Donaldson '96†
  • 2021 - Patricia Petrella Nouhan, M.D. ‘81
  • 2020 - Anne Wynsberge Nemes ‘68
  • 2019 - Aisa Villarosa ’04
  • 2018 - Valerie Hebel McNeece ’66
  • 2017 - Sheri Johnson Crawley '90
  • 2016 - Sommer Woods '95
  • 2015 - Celeste Allen Novak FAIA, LEED ’69
  • 2014 - Paula Chermside ’72
  • 2013 - Mary Anne Keating McDonnell ’46
  • 2012 - The Honorable Diane Dickow D’Agostini ’80
  • 2011 - Luanne Thomas Ewald FACHE '87
  • 2010 - Lillian Roumayah Shallal '68
  • 2009 - Diana George Jacokes '67
  • 2008 - Mary Pat McDougall '56
  • 2007 - Sr. Rita Valade, RSM '72 and Carol Hackett Garagiola '73
  • 2005 - Arleen Brennan Bonello '56, Noreen McGowan Keating '58, Sister Mary Paulita Walters, RSM '63
  • 1996 - Jo-Lee McCabe Wambach ’54, Marie Henderson, RSM ’67, Joan Doemer Colladay ’69
  • 1994 - Kay Byerlein Browne ’54, Rosemary Rizzo Kelly ’54, Mary Margaret Scanlan Bosco ’57, Carol Bingham McNish ’60, Vidya Sekhar ’86
  • 1993 - Theresa Blaquiere, RSM ’54, Janet Baiardi PhD ’75
  • 1991 - Romayne Carletti ’53
  • 1990 - Carolyn Palmer ’73