The trumpet is not a quiet instrument. It is used to sound warnings, to mark celebrations, and to announce the presence of special people. For 40 years, the Trumpeter Award has recognized leaders who are not afraid to speak out for social justice and for the rights of consumers. NCL Trumpeter Award recipients are honored for their commitment to raising the voices of consumers and workers to ensure they are heard. In 2013, NCL will honor FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn with the 40th annual Trumpeter Award.

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Past Trumpeter Recipients

2012
Cecil E. Roberts, United Mine Workers of America

2011
Dr. Margaret Hamburg, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers

2010
Kenneth Feinberg
Surgeon General Regina Benjamin

2009
Steve Kroft
Hilda Solis

2008
Richard Blumenthal
Barbara Ehrenreich

2007
Linda Golodner

2006
Paul Sarbanes
Herb Weisbaum

2005   
Jane Bryant Quinn
Deborah Kaplan

2004   
Morton Bahr
Judy Feder

2003   
Senator Jon Corzine
Congressman Tom Lantos

2002   
Senator Carl Levin
Michelle Singletary

2001   
Linda Chavez-Thompson
Senator Paul Wellstone

2000   
Joan Z. (Jodie) Bernstein
Congressman David E. Bonior
Surgeon General Dr. David Satcher

1999   
Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman
“Frontline”

1998   
Myrlie Evers-Williams
Broad Meadows Middle School, Quincy, MA

1997   
Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Carol Tucker Foreman

1996   
Secretary of Labor Robert Reich

1995   
Minnesota Attorney General Hubert Humphrey III
New York City District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau
Chairman Kailash Satyarthi, South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude
Special Recognition:  Meredith M. Layer, former Senior Vice President for Public Responsibility, American Express Company

1994   
FDA Commissioner David Kessler
Bert Seidman

1993   
Senator Tom Harkin
Delores Huerta

1992   
Senator Jay Rockefeller
Charlayne Hunter-Gault

1991   
Dr. Arnold Relman
Jack Blum

1990   
Congressman Don Pease
Lynn Williams
Special Recognition: Bonnie Guiton

1989   
Susan King
Congressman George Miller

1988   
Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder
Congressman Peter Rodino
Special Recognition:  Susanne Zwemer

1987   
Arthur Flemming
Marion Wright Edelman

1986   
Congressman Gus Hawkins
Senator Charles Mathias

1985   
Betty Furness
Sarah Newman
Congressman Henry Waxman
Qazi Shaukat Fareed

1984   
Douglas Fraser

1983   
Ig Falk
Special Recognition:  Jane Brody, Penny Wise Budoff, Rose Kushner, Fitzhugh Mullan, Natalie Spingarn

1982   
Senator Claude Pepper

1981   
Esther Peterson

1980   
Lady Bird Johnson (posthumously for President Johnson)
Averell Harriman

1979   
Jacob Clayman
Robert Nathan

1978   
Senator Harrison Williams
Caroline Ware

1977   
Senator Warren Magnuson
Evelyn Dubrow

1976   
Senator Philip A. Hart
Congresswoman Leonor K. Sullivan
Maida Springer Kemp

1975   
Senator Alan Cranston
Senator Charles Percy
Special Recognition:  Clara Beyer, Edith Sloan, Virginia Knauer, Bess Myerson

1973   
Senator Edward Kennedy

The Florence Kelley Consumer Leadership Award
Named for NCL’s first general secretary and Progressive Era pioneer, Florence Kelley, the consumer leadership award is given to individuals, who in the spirit of NCL’s early leader, at a grass-roots level, have willingly given of their time, passion, and energy to important causes that may not be popular. Florence Kelley Consumer Leadership Award recipients are honored for their commitment to social justice for consumers and workers, their vision, their activism, and their dedication.

In the spirit of NCL’s first general secretary and Progressive Era pioneer Florence Kelley, the Consumer Leadership Award is given to individuals, who at the grassroots level willingly give of their time, passion, and energy to important causes that may not be popular. The Florence Kelley Consumer Leadership Award recipients are honored for their commitment to social justice for consumers and workers, and for their vision, activism, and dedication.

Past Recipients –

2011 Paheadra Robinson, Mississippi Center for Justice

2006    Pastor Herrera, Jr.
2005    James B. Leonard, Claire White
2004    Brandolyn Clanton Pinkston
2003    Mary Gardiner Jones, Jane Delgado
2002    Florence Rice
2001    Ken McEldowney
2000    Jack Blum
1999    Evelyn Dubrow
1998    Rosella Bannister
1997    Esther Shapiro
1996    Ruth Jordan
1995    Erma Angevine