STP MEMBERS WHO RECEIVED PRESIDENTIAL CITATIONS
FROM THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Updated November 12, 2024

The following STP members (whose membership was current as of 2023) were recipients of Presidential Citations from the American Psychological Association from 2014 through 2023.  During those years, APA's Presidents bestowed a total of 316 Presidential Citations to individuals; 20 of whom were STP members in 2023.  For a full list of APA Presidential Citations, visit here; the information below was obtained from that site.

Please note: This list only includes individuals who were listed as STP members in 2023.  Some past recipients of Presidential Citations are deceased or no longer members of STP.  If you are aware of any corrections to this list, please contact stp@teachpsych.org.

Year of APA Presidential Citation

Recipient

Short description of citation

2023

Nancy Budwig, PhD

In recognition of her stewardship of the APA/Clark University Workshop for High School Teachers over two decades.

Courtney E. Ahrens, PhD, ABPP

For her leadership and scholarship in the areas of sexual assault and intimate partner violence.

Jerry Rudmann, PhD

In recognition of his exceptional leadership and dedication to promoting excellence in the teaching and learning of psychology. (Note: Dr. Rudmann passed away on May 16, 2024)

Jane S. Halonen, PhD

For her exceptional leadership and dedication to the promotion of excellence in undergraduate psychology education.

Martha Zlokovich, PhD

For her distinguished career as an educator, advocate, and national leader in psychology education. 

2021

Shari Miles-Cohen, PhD

For her leadership and commitment to human rights issues through mentoring, scholarship, and service to the profession.

Pamela Scott-Johnson, PhD

For her commitment to teaching and research excellence and her service to APA.

2020

Antonio E. Puente, PhD

For his outstanding service to the profession of psychology.

2019

Francisco J. Sánchez, PhD

For his steadfast commitment to advancing psychology’s values of diversity and social justice through his research, teaching and professional service.

Debra Kawahara, PhD

For her mentorship, leadership, scholarship and service.

2018

Kira Hudson Banks, PhD

For being a catalyst for transformation, learning and action in the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri protests and unrest in 2014 and beyond, and for now being a leader in racial equity in the St. Louis region.

Richard E. Mayer, PhD

For his leadership and longstanding impact on early and elementary education in the Goleta Union School District in California. 

Garth Neufeld, PhD

For his leadership in social justice and human rights by providing at-risk children with the tools to avoid a life of extreme poverty and work within the sex trade in Thailand.

Bruce S. Liese, PhD

For his leadership and sustained commitment to Douglas County and the city of Lawrence, Kansas in both volunteer and elected capacities.  

2017

Donald A. Dewsbury, PhD

For his work as one of the foremost animal behaviorists, comparative psychologists and historians of psychology, not only of his generation, but in the history of psychology.

2014

R. Eric Landrum, PhD

For remarkable contributions to undergraduate education in psychology. 

Milton A. Fuentes, PsyD

For his leadership as a founding member and former president of New Jersey’s Latino Psychological Association and the 2012 president of the National Latina/o Psychological Association, as well as his impressive efforts to prepare students and professionals to address the mental health needs of the diverse Latino community in his role as a researcher, mentor, professor and consultant.

Sue Frantz, MA

For her dedication, innovation and imagination in translating psychological science for the public by educating thousands of undergraduates.

Julie M. Koch, PhD

For her dedication to the professional development and training of future psychologists.

Linda M. Woolf, PhD

For educating current and future generations about human rights through her scholarly teaching and writing, and for assisting APA in drafting and adopting policy resolutions that prohibit human rights abuses and protect the welfare of individuals in U.S. custody, most notably the comprehensive 2013 policy that reconciled seven earlier APA policies.