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The Jefferson Awards Foundation was created in 1972 by the American Institute for Public Service. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Jefferson Awards are given at both local and national levels. [ 3 ] Local winners are ordinary people who do extraordinary things without expectation of recognition.
The Joseph Jefferson Award, more commonly known informally as the Jeff Award, is given for theatre arts produced in the Chicago area. Founded in 1968, the awards are named in tribute to actor Joseph Jefferson, a 19th-century American theater star who, as a child, was a player in Chicago's first theater company.
Year Category Nominee(s) Result Ref. 1999 Television Hall of Fame: Productions The Jeffersons: Inducted [3]2021 Television Hall of Fame: Characters
Sam Beard (born 1939) is a social entrepreneur, and public servant. [1] With Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Robert Taft Jr., Sam created and Co-Chaired the Jefferson Awards, an American Nobel Prize for public service and youth leadership training.
Marla Gibbs (born Margaret Bradley; June 14, 1931) [1] is an American actress, singer, comedian, writer, and television producer whose career spans seven decades. She is known for her role as George Jefferson's maid, Florence Johnston, on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons (1975–1985), for which she received five nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a ...
The 2016 Jefferson Muzzle Awards [ edit ] For the first time in 25 years, the Jefferson Center expanded anti-free speech awards to 50 recipients, the 2016 award is also unique in the aspect that all of the recipients are colleges.
In 2004, O'Connor received the U.S. Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards. [6] On September 8, 2004, Redwood City, California, dedicated the courtroom of its renovated historical courthouse (now a museum) to O'Connor. [7]
Thomas Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural Science, given by the Virginia Museum of Natural History Foundation; Thomas Jefferson Star for Foreign Service, an award of the United States Department of State; The University of Virginia and Thomas Jefferson Foundation have jointly granted Jefferson Foundation medals: