LERA Lifetime Achievement Award

The LERA Lifetime Achievement Award is a capstone achievement for lifelong contributors to the field of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, from all perspectives. This award was established in 2000, and awardees are recognized at the LERA Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Presidential Luncheon. This special award is appointed by the LERA President each year; we do not accept nominations.

2024
Strategic Labor and HR LLC	New School for Social Research

2023
Greg Bamber Monash University	Janice Bellace Wharton School	Steve Sleigh Sleigh Strategy, LLC

2022
Bernard Anderson Wharton School (ret.)	Lisa Lynch Brandeis University

2021
Paula Voos Rutgers University	Dennis Dabney Kaiser Permanente	Kris Rondeau AFSCME

2020
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld Brandeis University

2019
Marlene Heyser Workplace Law Strategies	Hoyt Wheeler University of South Carolina

2018
Marcia Greenbaum Arbitrator/Mediator	Morris Kleiner University of Minnesota	David Lipsky Cornell University

2017
Sir Peter Carr UK National Health Service	Eileen Appelbaum Center for Economic and Policy Research	John F. Burton Jr. Rutgers University (ret.)

 
*We changed how our awards are dated - they will now be dated the year in which the award is presented. This change makes it look as though no awards were given in 2016

2015
Robert Castrey Arbitrator/Mediator (posthumously)	Jim Pruitt Kaiser Permanente	Joan Husted Hawaii State Teachers Assn.	David Lewin UCLA	Tom Kochan MIT

2014

• Peter Feuille
• Steven Greenhouse
• Michael Piore

2013

• Wilma Liebman
  

2012

• Ellen Dannin
• Daniel JB Mitchell

2011

• Rudy Oswald

2010

• Clair Brown

2009

• Bonnie Prouty Castrey
• Russell Lansbury
• Martin Wagner

2008

• Dennis Rocheleau

2007

• Jack Stieber

2006

• George Strauss

2005

• Robert McKersie

2004

• Walter Gershenfeld

2003

• Clark Kerr

2002

• Neil W. Chamberlain
• George P. Schultz

2001

• Wayne L. Horvitz

2000

• David Brody
• F. Ray Marshall
• Lynn R. Williams

1999

• William J. Usery
• John T. Dunlop
• Lois Spier Gray
• Theodore Kheel
• Malcolm R. Lovell, Jr.