{"id":1416,"date":"2026-10-13T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/alumni\/?page_id=1416"},"modified":"2026-10-13T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T21:51:14","slug":"l-joseph-thomas-leadership-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/alumni\/get-involved\/awards\/johnson-school-awards\/l-joseph-thomas-leadership-award\/","title":{"rendered":"L. Joseph Thomas Leadership Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><\/head><body><div class=\"intro-text global-spacing--3x dotted-line-start\">\n  <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>The L. Joseph Thomas Leadership Award is a lifetime achievement award that recognizes alumni for their exceptional demonstration of vision and leadership, sound business sense, and commitment to community.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <section class=\"section-heading--wrap accordion--wrap span--red background--white bg--clear\" id=\"award-information\">\n    <div class=\"section-heading__title\">\n    <h2>Award information<\/h2>\n  <\/div>\n\n  \n  <div class=\"section-heading__content\">\n    <div class=\"grid-container\">\n      <div class=\"accordion__set\">\n                          <details class=\"expandable\" open>\n  <summary class=\"expandable__button\">\n    <span class=\"expandable__button-text\">\n    Award criteria\n    <\/span>\n  <\/summary>\n  <div class=\"expandable__content\">\n                  <ul>\n<li>Lifetime achievement award that recognizes extraordinary alumni for their exceptional vision and leadership and a track record of sound business sense throughout their careers.<\/li>\n<li>Award recognizes alumni who have made significant contributions to their communities, making a positive impact beyond their professional endeavors.<\/li>\n<li>The award may be given to alumni who have assumed leadership roles and made unique and noteworthy contributions to their industry.<\/li>\n<li>Service to Johnson as a volunteer and\/or leader in engagement opportunities is not<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>required<strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Alumni are honored because of the significant impact their leadership has had on their industry and the broader community.<\/li>\n<li>Consideration is given to the length and depth of the individual&rsquo;s activities.<\/li>\n<li>Honorees are chosen from candidates proposed by the Johnson community (alumni, faculty, and staff).<\/li>\n<li>University Trustees are not eligible for consideration until they are no longer active members of the board.<\/li>\n<li>A maximum of two awards may be presented annually, should qualified candidates be nominated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n              <\/div>\n<\/details>\n                  <details class=\"expandable\">\n  <summary class=\"expandable__button\">\n    <span class=\"expandable__button-text\">\n    Nomination form\n    <\/span>\n  <\/summary>\n  <div class=\"expandable__content\">\n                  \n<p>To nominate an alumna or alumnus for the L. Joseph Thomas Leadership Award, please fill out the&nbsp;<a class=\"external external external external\" href=\"https:\/\/cornell.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_4VjcHklZ8y1DgdD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online nomination form<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n              <\/div>\n<\/details>\n              <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-award-recipients\">Award recipients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/hub\/2025\/04\/02\/johnson-school-announces-2025-alumni-award-winners\/\">2025: Antonio M. Alvarez III, MBA &rsquo;91<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/hub\/2024\/05\/21\/honoring-legacy-leadership-highlights-johnson-schools-big-red-bash\/\">2024: Anne Chow &rsquo;88, MEng &rsquo;89, MBA &rsquo;90<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/hub\/2023\/04\/06\/johnson-school-2023-alumni-award-winners\/#AngelaHwang\">2023: Angela Hwang, MBA &rsquo;94<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/hub\/2021\/04\/30\/johnson-honors-distinguished-alumni-big-red-bash\/\">2020: Mark Bissell, MBA &rsquo;82<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/hub\/2019\/03\/25\/2019-alumni-award-recipients\/\">2019: Peter B. Orthwein &rsquo;68, MBA &rsquo;69<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/hub\/2018\/05\/02\/anne-estabrook-l-joseph-thomas-leadership-award\/\">2018:&nbsp;Anne Estabrook &rsquo;65, MBA &rsquo;66<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/27\/george-gellert-60-mba-62-jd-63-honored-with-the-2016-l-joseph-thomas-leadership-award\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/27\/george-gellert-60-mba-62-jd-63-honored-with-the-2016-l-joseph-thomas-leadership-award\/\">2016: George G. Gellert &rsquo;60, MBA &rsquo;62, JD &rsquo;63<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/01\/transforming-the-world-through-beauty\/\">2014-2015: Kyung-Bae Suh, MBA &rsquo;87<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2014\/02\/tips-top-alumna-ceo-irene-rosenfeld\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"external\">2013: Irene Rosenfeld &rsquo;75, MS &rsquo;77, PhD &rsquo;80<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2012: H. Fisk Johnson &rsquo;79, M.Eng &rsquo;80, M.S. &rsquo;82, MBA &rsquo;84, Ph.D. &rsquo;86<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2011: Daniel Hesse, MBA &rsquo;77<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award recipients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":1404,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"leadership":[],"class_list":["post-1416","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>L. 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