2023 AWARD RECIPIENTS

The 2023 Distinguished Graduate Award medal ceremony marks the 25th year of honoring and celebrating the lives of alumni through the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Award program.

Each year, distinguished graduates are honored for their demonstrated and unselfish commitment to a lifetime of service, their personal character, the significant contributions they have made to the Navy and Marine Corps and as leaders in industry and government. They are the embodiment of fulfilling the academy’s mission to develop leaders to “assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government.”

We honor these five individuals for the principles they stand for—today and always.

MAJOR GENERAL LEO V. WILLIAMS III ’70, USMCR (RET.)

RONALD L. NICOL ’75

ADMIRAL JAMES G. STAVRIDIS ’76, USN (RET.)

REAR ADMIRAL JULIUS S. CAESAR ’77, USNR (RET.)

ADMIRAL CECIL D. HANEY ’78, USN (RET.)