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2018 COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AWARD

The Community Foundation’s Community Leadership Award is presented annually for outstanding community service and dedication to improving the quality of life for all Northern Virginians. In 2018, the award went to Ellen and Jim Dyke.

Jim previously served as Virginia’s Secretary of Education under former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder and as domestic policy advisor to former Vice President Walter Mondale. He is currently a Senior Advisor with McGuireWoods Consulting LLC and is a well-known leader in the business, education and government arenas, both regionally and state wide. He serves on the State Go Virginia Board and chairs the K-12 Committee of the Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Ellen previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Peirce Warwick Adoption Agency, Chair of the District of Columbia Law Revision Commission and Vice Chair of the Virginia Commission on the Humanities. She was a practicing attorney for over 30 years until her retirement from the Venable law firm. She is the chair of the Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Board of Directors and is the author of Adam and Steve, a novel of legal intrigue that explores the subjects of marriage equality and intolerance.

PAST RECIPIENTS

2017 Mark and Brenda Moore 2016 J. Knox Singleton 2015 Jim Wordsworth 2014 Richard Duvall and Holland & K night LL P 2013 J. Hamilton Lambert 2012 BB&T 2011 W ashington Gas 2010 Booz Allen Hamilton 2009 Sudhakar & Suresh Shenoy 2008 Donna Morea 2007 F . Kevin Reynolds 2006 Alan & Sally Merten 2005 Gary McCollum 2004 Hon. Frank W olf 2003 Hon. Thomas M. Davis, III 2002 Michael G. Anzillotti 2001 Ralph W . Shrader 2000 Michael A. Daniels 1999 Mark W arner & Lisa Collis 1998 P hil & Marge Odeen 1997 Thomas E. W aldrop 1996 Charles “Chuck” V ance 1995 Edward H. Bersoff 1994 Daniel M. R oss 1993 Community Care Awards 1992 Dan R. Bannister 1991 Sidney O. Dewberry 1990 Joe Gibbs 1989 Joanne F . & George W. Johnson 1988 Milton L. Drewer , Jr. 1987 V irginia E. & John T. Hazel 1986 James T. Lewis 1985 John M. Toups 1984 Earle C. Williams 1983 Charles G. Gulledge