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| Celebrating the Leaders & Legends of Texas Nursing |
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 Every two years, the Texas Nurses Foundation honors Texas Nurses Association members, both living and deceased, whose volunteer service to the association significantly contributed to TNA and health transformation locally, state-wide and nationally. Legends include members who have served on a committee, task force, special work group or the board of the Texas Nurses Association, or a member who has represented the association through their appointment to a statewide committee, task force, coalition or other policy group between the years of 1960 and 2000. Nominations are now open for the 2026 Leaders & Legends of Texas Nursing awards!Click here to view full criteria and submit your nomination. Nominations close Oct. 15, 2025.
2024 Leaders and Legends of Texas NursingMyrna Armstrong, EdD, RN, FAAN, ANEF Jennifer D. Cook, PhD., MBA, RN Dr. Kathleen Stevens Hamilton, RN, MS, EdD, ANEF, FAAN Eloisa G. Tamez, RN, PhD, MSCJ, FAAN Katherine A. Thomas, MN, RN, FAAN 2022 Leaders and Legends of Texas NursingErnestine “Tina” Cuellar, PhD, RN Sarah Moody, DNP, RN, NEA-BC Betty J. Skaggs, PhD, RN Past Recipients2020 Leaders and Legends of Texas NursingMary Holt Ashley, PhD, RN, CNAA Michael L. Evans, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Lolly Lockhart, PhD, RN K. Lynn Wieck, PhD, RN, FAAN Honored Posthumously Joyce Adams, PhD, RN Dorothy A. Otto, EdD, RN, ANEF
2018 Leaders and Legends of Texas NursingElizabeth Sjoberg, JD, RN Lucy Norris, MSN, RN, CENP Carolyn Gunning, PhD, RN Patricia Yoder-Wise, RN, ED, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN Honored Posthumously Brigadier General Lillian Dunlap, USA (1922-2003) Mildred O. Hogstel, PhD, RN (1929-2011)
Shirley Sharpe Finn, EdD, RN (1932-2013)
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2016 Leaders and Legends of Texas NursingDolores Alford, PhD, RN, FAAN Honored PosthumouslySister Charles Marie Frank, RN
2015Billye J. Brown, RN, EdD, FAAN Honored Posthumously |