The James Madison Award is administered by the American Library Association, which describes the award:
The award named for President James Madison was established in 1989 and is presented annually on the anniversary of his birth to honor individuals or groups who have championed, protected and promoted public access to government information and the public's right to know at the national level.American Library Association, "James Madison Award".
Recipients Jon Tester, 2017 Seamus Kraft, The OpenGov Foundation 2016 Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), 2015 President Barack Obama's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, 2014 Aaron Swartz, 2013 (posthumously) Julie Bort, "The American Library Association Has Given Aaron Swartz Its First Ever Posthumous Award", Business Insider (March 15, 2013). Zoe Lofgren, 2012 Patrice McDermott, 2011 Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), 2010 - Co-Winner Meredith Fuchs, 2010 Thomas M. Susman, 2009 Russ Feingold, 2008 Paul K. McMasters, 2007 Steve Aftergood, 2006 Richard M. Schmidt, 2005 David Sobel, 2004 American Library Association, "James Madison Award: All Years" (last visited May 15, 2013). Former U.S. Congressman Steve Horn; Government of Arlington County (VA), 2003 Steven Garfinkel, retired director of the Information Security Oversight Office; John E. Moss the author of the Freedom of Information Act (awarded posthumously) 2002 John D. Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff, 2001 Larry Irving, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, 2000 Board members and congressional sponsors of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, including former Senator John Glenn and Representatives Dan Burton, Henry Waxman, and Louis Stokes and Board members: Honorable John R. Tunheim (chair), Henry F. Graff, Kermit L. Hall, William L. Joyce and Anna Kasten Nelson. 1999 Ben Bagdikian, journalist, Wayne P. Kelley, former Superintendent of Documents of the Government Printing Office, Eliot Christian and the U.S. Geological Survey, National Library of Medicine. 1998 George Soros, philanthropist and financier, 1997 The National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, 1996 The Government Printing Office, the State of Maryland's Sailor Project, the Seattle (WA) Public Library, and the Internet Multicasting Service's Town Hall Project, 1995 Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary, and former ALA Washington Office Director Eileen D. Cooke, 1994 The legislators who led the passage of P.L. 103–40, the GPO Access Act: Vice President Al Gore, original sponsor of the GPO Gateway to Government Act when he was in the Senate; Senators Wendell Ford (D-KY) and Ted Stevens (R-AK); Representatives Charlie Rose (D-NC) and Bill Thomas (R-CA), 1993 Journalist Nina Totenberg, author Scott Armstrong, and C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, 1992 Representative Don Edwards, 1991 Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), journalist Philip Shabecoff, and the Office of Toxic Substances of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1990 Senator Patrick Leahy, 1989
External links ALA page on the award, page on past recipients.
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