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An OTA Organic Leadership Award is the association's highest honor. The award is given annually to an individual, inside or outside the organic industry, who has shown leadership and vision in furthering goals of the organic movement.
Learn more about the nomination process. Contact Tessa Young with questions.
Past Honorees:
2012
Gary Hirshberg
Organic Leadership Award for Achievement in Growing the Organic Industry
Zea Sonnabend
Organic Leadership Award for Achievement in Growing Organic Agriculture
2011
Michael Funk
Organic Leadership Award for Achievement in Growing the Organic Industry
Mark Lipson
Organic Leadership Award for Achievement in Growing Organic Agriculture
2010
Theresa Marquez
Organic Leadership Award for Achievement in Growing the Organic Industry
Bob Quinn
Organic Leadership Award for Achievement in Growing Organic Agriculture
2009
Paddy Doherty
Organic Leadership Award for Achievement in Growing the Organic Industry
Eldon, Wendell, Harlan and Homer Lundberg
Organic Leadership Award for Achievement in Growing Organic Agriculture
2008
Ray Fuller
Organic Farming Leadership Award
Drew and Myra Goodman
Organic Leadership Award
2007
Larry Jacobs and Sandra Belin
Organic Farming Leadership Award
Howard Shapiro
Organic Leadership Award
2006
Katherine DiMatteo
Outstanding Individual Achievement
2005
Joseph Smillie
Special Pioneer Award
LaRhea & Terry Pepper
Organic Agriculture Award
2004
Neil Strayer
Organic Agriculture Award
Nora Pouillon, Nora's/Asia Nora's
Special Pioneer Award
2003
The Rodale Family
2002
Bená Burda, Maggie’s Organics/Clean Clothes, Inc.
Special Pioneer Award
Dave Reibling, Oak Manor Farms
Organic Agriculture Award
Mark Retzloff
Outstanding Individual Achievement Award
Bob Scowcroft, Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF)
Legislative and Regulatory Award
2001
Allen Shainsky, Petaluma Poultry (posthumously)
Special Pioneer Award
Bill Wolf, Wolf & Associates
Outstanding Individual Achievement Award
2000
Kathleen Merrigan, Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture
1999
Frank Ford, Founder, Arrowhead Mills
1998
Paul K. Keene, Founder, Walnut Acres
1997
The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy | 
