The Distinguished Service Award was instituted in 1978 and renamed The Reverend Msgr. Alfred F. Horrigan Distinguished Service Award in 1987. It is given to recognize an individual who, as a member of the university faculty, staff or administration, has made a significant contribution to Bellarmine University. The award recipient may be a present or past employee of Bellarmine University or Ursuline College.
Horrigan Distinguished Service Award Recipients
2023-2024 Fr. George Kilcourse
2022-2023 Dr. Ann M. Jirkovsky
2021-2022 Dr. Fred Rhodes
2020-2021 Bob Zimlich '81, '87 MBA
2019-2020 Tina Kauffmann '13 MAC
2018-2019 Ursuline Sisters of Louisvlle
2017-2018 Dr. Mary Pike '80
2016-2017 Fr. Joseph H. Voor
2015-2016 Robert G. Pfaadt ‘63
2014-2015 Dr. Tom Bennett
2013-2014 Dr. Catherine Sutton
2012-2013 Tom Fisher '81
2011-2012 Robert Bernauer ’71
2010-2011 Dr. Gail Henson
2009-2010 Dr. Maggie Miller
2008-2009 Dr. Robert Korn
2007-2008 Alma Schuler
2006-2007 Dr. Tom Kemme
2006-2007 Dr. Maureen Norris
2005-2006 Louie Harman
2004-2005 Dr. John Oppelt
2003-2004 Martha Oliver, CPA
2002-2003 Dr. John “Jack” Ford
2001-2002 Robert Lockhart
2000-2001 Dr. Rose Ann Howard
2000-2001 Dr. Nancy A. Howard
1999-2000 Fr. Fred Hendrickson
1998-1999 Dr. Susan J. Hockenberger Davis
1997-1998 Fr. Hilary Gottbrath, O.F.M.
1996-1997 Joseph C. Reibel '60
1995-1996 J.O. Kampschaefer, Jr. '54
1994-1995 Mr. Robert Fitzpatrick
1993-1994 Dr. Kathleen V. Lyons
1992-1993 Dr. Bernie Thiemann '62
1991-1992 Dr. John M. Daly
1990-1991 Dr. Eugene V. Petrik
1989-1990 Dr. M. Serra Goethals, SCN
1988-1989 The Rev. Jeremiah J. Smith
1987-1988 Rev. Msgr. Alfred F. Horrigan
1986-1987 William J. Stewart '57
1985-1986 Dr. James Dyar
1984-1985 David P. O'Toole
1983-1984 James R. Spalding '55
1982-1983 Msgr. Raymond J. Treece
1981-1982 Sr. Pat Lowman, OSU
1980-1981 Dr. Margaret H. Mahoney
1979-1980 Stanley A. Zemelka
1978-1979 Marilyn J. Staples