About the Award:  In 1993, the VAE Board of Directors established the VAE Distinguished Fellows Award.  Recipients must be a current or past member of the VAE and must have made significant contributions either to the VAE or to the field of economics.  Each year, the Board of Directors considers potential recipients, based upon recommendations that have been received.

Past Recipients are Listed Below:

2007    Raymond Owens, Economist
            Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

2006    Steven D. Lang, Associate Professor of Economics/Business
            Randolph-Macon College

2005    William F. Mezger, Chief Economist
            Economic Information Services Division
            Virginia Employment Commission

2004    Not awarded

2003    H. Marshall Booker, Professor of Economics
            Christopher Newport University

2002    Edward J. Schmidt, Associate Professor of Economics
             Randolph-Macon College
              and member of the "Salem 22"

2001    C. Barry Pfitzner, Seese Professor of Economics
              Randolph-Macon College

2000    Not awarded

1999    Kenneth Townsend, Elliott Professor of Economics
             Hampden-Sydney College

1998    Roy Pearson, Chancellor Professor of Business
             College of William & Mary

1997    Christine Chmura, senior vice-president & chief economist
             Crestar Bank

1996    Carlisle Baskin,
             member of the "Salem 22"

            William Hendley, Associate Professor of Economics
             Hampden-Sydney College

            John L. Knapp, Research Director and Professor
             Business and Economics Section
             University of Virginia - Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service

1995    Not awarded

1994    Not awarded

1993    Louis Lombard,

            Herbert Stein