Videos of laureate biographies and speeches are currently available for the following years.


2007
Sidney O. Dewberry
Chairman
Dewberry

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Senior Managing Director
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC

John P. McDaniel
Chief Exexutive Officer
MedStar Health, Inc.

David Reznick
Chairman
Reznick Group

David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Managing Director
The Carlyle Group
2006
John E. "Chip" Akridge, III
Chairman
Akridge

Alexandra Armstrong
Chairman
Armstrong, Fleming, & Moore, Inc.

Jeong H. Kim, Ph.D.
President
Lucent Technologies,
Bell Labs

B. Francis Saul II
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Chevy Chase Bank

Kenneth R. Sparks
Former Executive Vice President
Federal City Council
2005
Raul Fernandez
Chief Executive Officer
Object Video

Fred Malek
Founder & Chairman
Thayer Capital Partners

Herbert S. Miller
Chairman
Western Development Corporation

Morgan O'Brien
Founder
Nextel Communications

John T. Schwieters
Vice Chairman
Perseus L.L.C.
2004
Steve Case
Former Chairman and CEO
America Online Inc., and
AOL Time Warner

John M. Derrick Jr.
Retired Chairman
PEPCO Holdings, Inc.

P. Wesley Foster Jr.
Chairman & CEO
Long & Foster Companies, Inc.

Marie C. Johns
Former President and CEO
Verizon - Washington, DC

Robert P. Pincus
Chairman
Milestone Merchant Partners

2003
Robert L. Johnson
Chairman and CEO
BET Holdings, Inc.

Austin H. Kiplinger
Chairman
Kiplinger Washington Editors

Theodore N. Lerner
Founding Partner
Lerner Enterprises

Edward F. Mitchell
Former Chairman and CEO
PEPCO

John R. Tydings
Former President
Greater Washington Board of Trade

2002
Joe L. Allbritton
Former Chairman and CEO
Riggs National Bank and WJLA-TV

A. James Clark
CEO
Clark Enterprises
Chairman, Executive Committee
Clark Construction

J. Willard Marriott, Jr.
Chairman and CEO
Marriott International

Esther T. Smith
Founding Editor
Washington Business Journal
Founder
Washington Technology

Jack Valenti
Chairman and CEO
Motion Picture Association of America

2001
Roger R. Blunt
Chairman and CEO
Blunt Enterprises

John J. Curley
Former Chairman, President and CEO
Gannett Company Inc.

John T. Hazel, Jr.
Attorney at Law
Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas

Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Founder
National Museum of Women in the Arts

Mario Morino
Chairman
Morino Institute

2000
William Harris
President
Greater Washington Region
Crestar Bank

James V. Kimsey
Founding CEO & Chairman Emeritus
America Online, Inc.

Louise Lynch
Chairman and CEO Emeritus
Courtesy Associates

Abe Pollin
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Washington Sports and Entertainment

Irwin Zazulia
Retired President and CEO
Hecht's

1995
Katharine Graham
Chairman of the Executive Committee
The Washington Post Company

R. Robert Linowes
Senior Counsel
Linowes and Blocher

Walter F. McArdle
Founder
McArdle Printing Company Inc.

Joseph H. Riley
Retired Chairman of the Board & President
NS&T Bank

The Honorable Walter E. Washington
Former Mayor of Washington, DC