RWA Emma Merritt Service Award

The RWA Emma Merritt Service Award is presented for the accumulated body of work a member has contributed as a volunteer to RWA. The award is not only for service to individual chapters, but is intended to honor major commitments of service to RWA. A member may receive the RWA Emma Merritt Service Award only once in a lifetime. In the past, the RWA Emma Merritt Service Award has also been known as the Golden Rose and the National Service Award.

To nominate a member for the RWA Emma Merritt Service Award, please e-mail nominations@rwa.org.

2013 RWA Emma Merritt Service Award Recipient Nancy Haddock
	Nancy Haddock is the award-winning and best-selling author of La Vida Vampire, Last Vampire Standing, and Always the Vampire. A member of RWA since 1984, Haddock has been on the RWA Board of Directors and the History Committee, where she was instrumental in organizing and documenting RWA's oral and photographic history.

Past Emma Merritt Service Award Recipients

• 2012: Laura Hayden
• 2011: Michelle Monkou
• 2010: Jennifer Crusie
• 2009: Sherry Lewis
• 2008: Linda Winstead Jones
• 2007: Gayle Wilson
• 2006: Shirley Hailstock
• 2005: Carol Prescott
• 2004: Alicia Rasley
• 2003: Debra Dixon
• 2001: Libby Hall
• 2000: Claudia Yates
• 1999: Janis Reams Hudson
• 1998: Robin Lee Hatcher
• 1997: JoAnn Ferguson
• 1996: Christine Pacheco
• 1995: Rita Gallagher, Cathie Linz, Debbie Macomber, & Karan Richardson
• 1994: Margaret Brownley, Patt Marr, & Maggie Osborne
• 1993: Darlene Layman, Harold Lowry, aka Leigh Greenwood, & Nora Simpson
• 1992: Emma Merritt
• 1991: Kathy Clark & Jeanne Triner
• 1990: Marian Jones
• 1989: Jan Milella
• 1988: Jasmine Cresswell & Selwyn Young
• 1987: Linda Nusser
• 1986: JoAnn Ross
• 1985: Marianne Willman

Historical Note: from 1985 through 1989 the award was known as the Golden Rose. From 1990 through 1995 it was known as the National Service Award.