The James T. Molloy Alumni Service Award is named for the last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives and USSYAA’s first Executive Director, who provided important guidance and support to our organization in its formative years. Jim passed away in 2011, and through this award USSYAA strives to recognize the best examples of service to the association and the U.S. Senate Youth Program.
2024 – USSYAA Former President David Zavadsky (WI-1990)
2023 – USSYAA Deputy Executive Director John P. Spisak
2022 – US Senate Youth Program Director Rayne Guilford
2021 – USSYAA Founding President John Selmon Blakley, Sr. (MI-1976)
2020 – Hearst Foundations Director George B. Irish
2019 – USSYAA Executive Director Michael S. Sundermeyer (MO-1969)
2018 – NASA Administrator Major General Charles F. Bolden, Jr. (USMC, Retired)
2017 – USSYAA Former President Robert R. Middleton, Jr. (DC-1966)
2016 – Olympic Gold Medalist Colonel Micki King (USAF, Retired)
2015 – Mayor Peter Buttigieg (IN-2000)
2014 – Reverend Harry Knox (GA-1979)
2012 – Ambassador L. Bruce Laingen
Profiles on our James T. Molloy Alumni Service Award Recipients are coming soon.