The Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage is presented annually by The Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest. The Callaway Award "recognizes individuals who take a public stance to advance truth and justice, at some personal risk". The award was established by in 1990 by Joe Callaway to recognize "individuals in any area of endeavor who, with integrity and at some personal risk, take a public stance to advance truth and justice, and who challenged prevailing conditions in pursuit of the common good." The first recipient of the award was Joseph A. Kinney, of the National Safe Workplace in Chicago, who was credited for his fearless advocacy of safety for America's workers. In 2006 the

Sharon Shaffer Sharon ( he, שָׁרוֹן ''Šārôn'' "plain") is a given name as well as an Israeli surname. In English-speaking areas, Sharon is now predominantly a feminine given name. However, historically it was also used as a masculine given name. In ...

Charlie Swift Charles D. Swift (born 1961) is an American attorney and former career Navy officer, who retired in 2007 as a Lieutenant Commander in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He is most noted for having served as defense counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamda ...

and Bunnatine Greenhouse were awarded the prize. Shaffer and Swift were military officers who vigorously defended Guantanamo captives before Guantanamo military commissions. Greenhouse was a contracting officer employed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, who exposed financial improprieties. In 2007, award recipients were: Dahr Jamail (independent journalist in Iraq) and Linda Peeno, M.D., ( whistleblower and patient advocate). In 2012, the award was shared by William Binney &

J. Kirk Wiebe John Kirk (J. Kirk) Weibe is a former intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency, conspiracy theorist, and whistleblower. Kirk managed data programs and criticized the NSA's data-collection policies during the Barack O ...

for their work on ''Government Data Centers & Spying on Citizens'', as well as John Kiriakou for his work on the ''Government's Torture Policy''.

Past winners

1990 Joe A. Kinney, Marie Cirillio 1991

Roldo Bartimole Roldo Bartimole (born April 5, 1933) is an American journalist. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He worked for a series of newspapers, including ''The Wall Street Journal'' and ''The Cleveland Plain Dealer,'' before founding his own newslett ...

, Thomas E. Gish and Patricia Ann Burnett Gish, Forrest (Frosty) Troy and Helen B. Troy 1992

Karl Z. Morgan Karl Ziegler Morgan (September 27, 1907 – June 8, 1999), was an American physicist who was one of the founders of the field of radiation health physics. Late in life, after a long career in the Manhattan Project and at Oak Ridge National Labora ...

, Robert D. Pollard,

Mary P. Sinclair Mary P. Sinclair (September 23, 1918 – January 14, 2011) was an American environmental activist and "one of the nation’s foremost lay authorities on nuclear energy and its impact on the natural and human environment".

1993 William J. Lehman, William Reid, Terri Swearingen 1994

Robert Bigham The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

Julie Boyd Julie may refer to: * Julie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name Film and television * ''Julie'' (1956 film), an American film noir starring Doris Day * ''Julie'' (1975 film), a Hindi film by K. S. Sethumadhava ...

Roger Crisafi Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ( ...

Von Marie Erkert The term ''von'' () is used in German language surnames either as a nobiliary particle indicating a noble patrilineality, or as a simple preposition used by commoners that means ''of'' or ''from''. Nobility directories like the ''Almanach de Go ...

, Sherene Lee Jennings,

James Keefer James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

, Thomas Vernon Russell Jr., Dennis Shrader, Steven Craig Slagowski, Joseph A. Villarreal, Carroll E. Cox, Allan Nairn 1995 Lance Hughes, Steven W. Jones, Agnes Mulroy 1996 John Brodeur, Janet Chandler, Peter Gunn Montague 1997 Merrell Williams,

Stanton Glantz Stanton Arnold Glantz (born 1946) is an American professor, author, and tobacco control activist. Glantz is a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, where he is a Professor of Medicine (retired) in ...

1998 Jane Akre, Steve Wilson, David F. Noble 1999 Roberta Baskin,

Nancy Olivieri Nancy Fern Olivieri (born 1954) is a prominent Toronto haematologist and researcher with an interest in the treatment of haemoglobinopathies. She is best known for a protracted struggle with the Hospital for Sick Children and the pharmaceutical c ...

, Martha L. Crouch 2000

Doris Haddock Doris "Granny D" Haddock (born Ethel Doris Rollins; January 24, 1910 – March 9, 2010) was an American political activist from New Hampshire. Haddock achieved national fame when, between the ages of 88 and 90, starting on January 1, 1999, and cul ...

Paul E. Farmer Paul Edward Farmer (October 26, 1959 – February 21, 2022) was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was a University Professor and the chair of the Department of Glo ...

2001 Anthony Mazzocchi, Amy Goodman 2002 Barry Commoner,

Herbert L. Needleman Herbert Leroy Needleman (December 13, 1927 – July 18, 2017) researched the neurodevelopmental damage caused by lead poisoning. He was a pediatrician, child psychiatrist, researcher and professor at the University of Pittsburgh, an elected me ...

2003 John Munsell, Theodore A. Postol 2004 David Graham, Mark Livingston 2005 Bunny Greenhouse, Lieutenant Colonel Sharon A. Shaffer, Lieutenant Commander Charles D. Swift 2006 John Thayer, Thomas Baker,

Frank Binns Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Curre ...

, Martin R. Blanchet, Edward J. Hill, Richard Leonard, Charles Morris, Christian Raley, Scott Smith, Timothy Taylor, Maria Gunnoe, Edward (Ed) Wiley 2007 Dahr Jamail, Linda Peeno 2008

Michael German Michael German is a retired American FBI agent, scholar, and writer. He is a fellow in the Brennan Center for Justice's Liberty and National Security program. Life During his 16-year career as a Special Agent in the FBI, German spent many mo ...

, Barbara Bailey, Peter Chase, George Christian, Jan Nocek 2009 Frances Crowe,

Ivor Van Heerden Ivor van Heerden holds a doctorate degree in Marine Sciences and was the deputy director of the Louisiana State University (LSU) Hurricane Center, before being dismissed by LSU with no reason given, following Hurricane Katrina. He is also the dire ...

2010 Becky A. McClain, Percy and Louise Schmeiser 2011 Concepcion Picciotto,

Harry Kelber Harry may refer to: TV shows * ''Harry'' (American TV series), a 1987 American comedy series starring Alan Arkin * ''Harry'' (British TV series), a 1993 BBC drama that ran for two seasons * ''Harry'' (talk show), a 2016 American daytime talk show ...

2012 William Binney &

, John Kiriakou 2013 Ramsey Clark (lawyer, U.S. Attorney General 967-69 antiwar campaigner, defender of due process and the rule of law),

Saul Landau Saul Landau (January 15, 1936 – September 9, 2013) was an American journalist, filmmaker and commentator. He was also a professor emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he taught history and digital media. Edu ...

(human rights activist, journalist, filmmaker) 2014 Marcy Benstock, Dinesh Thakur 2015 John Crane, James Love and Manon Ress, Jonathan G. Lundgren 2016 Whistleblowers for the Common Good, Robert MacLean, Larry Criscione 2017 Joel Clement, Megan Rice, Michael R. Walli, and Greg Boertje-Obed 2018 Sandra C. Black, John Slowik

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