The Huffman Leadership Award

The Ruth L. & Ned E. Huffman Leadership Award

Call for Nominations – 2025

In January of 1988, the friends of Ned Huffman and his late wife, Ruth, established a fund to honor Mr. Huffman at his retirement from the Research Triangle Foundation and to recognize his long-standing commitment to the College of Veterinary Medicine and the North Carolina Veterinary Medical Foundation, Inc. The award is designed to recognize in a faculty or staff member the qualities of leadership, vision and achievement that Mr. Huffman valued highly and his career exemplified. 

The Criteria

• Candidates for the award must be faculty or staff members who have made an outstanding contribution to the College of Veterinary Medicine, its people and its programs.
• In addition, the individual must have demonstrably affected the quality of teaching, research and public service of the college. 
• The candidate must possess the highest qualities of leadership, be entrepreneurial, be an astute problem solver and be innovative in the development of improved and new programs.

Procedures for Nominations

• A committee composed of the following members will receive, review and select the award recipient. The dean, the president of NCVMF, the college faculty secretary, the chair of the faculty scholarship and awards committee, a student and the college director of development.
• The committee will consider all nominations submitted and may itself nominate candidates.
• Nominations will be accepted until March 21st, 2025, and will automatically carry forward for one additional year.
• If an individual is judged worthy, his or her name will be announced at the spring awards banquet.
• A cash award of $1,000 will be presented.

Nomination Form

Previous Winners

2024 Timo Prange, Jesse Watson

2023 Derek Foster
2022 Lysa Posner, Ken Satterwhite
2021 Megan Jacobs
2020 Steve Marks
2019 Greg Lewbart
2018 Jim Brawley
2018 Brian Gilger
2017 Anthony Blikslager
2016 Keven Flammer
2016 Sandra Horton
2015 Elizabeth Hardie
2014 Gigi Davidson
2014 Michael Davidson
2013 Michael K. Stoskopf
2012 Barbara Sherry
2011 Barrett Slenning
2011 Mitsu Suyemoto
2010 M. Christine McGahan
2009 Patricia F. English
2009 Kyle Mathews
2008 Kathryn H. Byrd
2008 Mark G. Papich
2007 Bernie Hansen
2006 Jorge Piedrahita
2005 Jay Levine
2004 Mary 8. Tompkins
2003 Philip 8. Carter
2002 Barbara Sherry
2001 Wayne A. F. Tompkins
2000 Jim E. Riviere
1999 Talmage T. Brown, Jr.
1998 Dan C. Tucker, Jr.
1997 Debra C. Sellon
1996 Kenneth B. Adler
1995 Donald E. Thrall
1994 Phillip L. Sannes
1993 Edward Breitschwerdt
1992 Terrence M. Curtin
1991 John Fentrow
1990 Ben D. Harrington
1989 Arthur L. Aronson