Fugate-Davis Women’s Leadership Award Recipients

The Fugate-Davis Women’s Leadership Award recognizes strong women leaders in the tradition of Averett’s beginnings as a women’s college.


2014 – Dr. Tiffany M. Franks

2015 – Mrs. Lucille Heydorn Digges, ’55

2016 – Ms. Nancy Sink Perry ’72

2017 – Dr. Elizabeth Compton

2019 – Margaret Lewis ’96

2020 – Kirk Bidgood

2021 – Virginia Hamlet

2022 – Ms. Sallie Vick ’70

2023 – Diane Miller ‘96