Wallace DuVall Excellence in Leadership Award
Wallace Odell DuVall was an Atlanta attorney who spent most of his career in the banking industry. A generous benefactor and longtime friend of Mercer University, he was a founding trustee of Atlanta Baptist College, which merged with Mercer in 1972 and became the University's Atlanta campus. He served three terms on Mercer's Board of Trustees. The Dean's Suite at the Law School is named for him, as well as an academic building on the Atlanta campus.
Eligibility:
A graduating senior from one of the University’s undergraduate schools and colleges
Criteria:
- Leadership - has the ability to motivate and inspire the confidence and trust of others
- Possesses vision, intelligence, integrity, and common sense
- Has a reasonably good academic performance, although the award is based on leadership ability and not on academic performance
Award Winners:
2024 Benjamin Smith
2023 Kathryn Hoersting
2022 Cameron Wade
2021 Elizabeth Merchant
2020 Adam Penland
2019 Mica Q. David
2018 Emily M. Thompson
2017 Aaron Micheal Scherf
2016 Joseph Wozniak
2015 Kaitlin Chance
2014 Michael Tekesky
2013 Noah Maier
2012 John Andrew Jones
2011 Margaret "Maggie" McCampbell
2010 Amy Carol Abel
2009 John Christopher Elder
2008 Stephanie Ard, James Derek Cook
2007 Stacey Irene Harwell
2006 Samson Julius Alva
2005 and Earlier
William Arnold
Julia Bowen
Megan Boyd
Michael Bryan
Kala Cartwright
Blair Cox
Daniel Crager
Ben Drew Cravey, III
Rhett Fraser
Crystal Garmon
Tiffany Gibson
Jimmy Thomas Howell
Andy Lane
Adam Neal
Frank Nelson
Pamela Popwell
Emily Salman
Amber Sandlin
Larissa Spell
Eric Trivett
Jamanda Turner
Jamila Wideman
Becky Wilcox
Megin Lea Williams
Gary Wood
