Emma Merritt Service Award
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The Emma Merritt Service Award is presented to honor the recipients entire body of service to the Romance Writers of America. Services include work done for local chapters as well as the National organization. Each recipient of this award can only be honored once. The award was previously known as the Golden Rose (1985 - 1989) and the National Service Award (1990 - 1995).
Emma Merritt Service Award Honorees
- 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
