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.

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

 

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

 

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

 

2020
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld

Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Brandeis University

 

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

 

2018
Marcia Greenbaum Morris Kleiner David Lipsky
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.