Trailblazer - Mary Ann Horton, Avaya
Champion - Cathy Brill & Lisa Vitale, Kodak
ERG of the Year - Pride at Walt Disney
Significant Achievement - Motorola
Workplace Excellence - IBM
An LGBT person who has made a significant contribution to advancing
workplace equity:
- Mary Ann Horton (Avaya)
- Leonard Hirsch (Smithsonian Institution)
- Ivy Martin (Booz
Allen)
- Alice McKeage (Ford)
- Louise Young (Raytheon)
A straight ally who has played a pivotal role in championing equal
treatment of LGBT employees on the job:
- Cathy Brill & Lisa
Vitale (Kodak)
- Kathy Barr (Pacific Bell)
- Ted Childs (IBM)
- William Perez (CEO, SC Johnson)
- Pride At Walt Disney
- American Express G/LEN
- Lambda Network at Kodak
Companies that have made the most significant progress toward
LGBT equality in the past year:
Companies that have historically supported LGBT employees:
- IBM
- Trillium Asset Management
- Xerox
Judges for the Outie awards were:
- Selisse Berry, Executive
Director of Out & Equal Workplace Advocates.
(non-voting judge)
- Daryl Herrschaft, WorkNet Manager for
the Human Rights Campaign
- Sarah Holland, Executive Director
of the Visibility Project
- Michelle Kammerer, Co-Founder
of the Center for Gender Sanity
- Grant Lukenbill, Founding
Co-chair of the Equality Project of the Gay and Lesbian Consumers,
Employees, and Investors Working Together and creator of the
annual Gay and Lesbian Values Index of the best companies for
gay consumers
- Tim
McFeeley, Political Director of the National Gay and Lesbian
Task Force, former Executive Director of HRC
- Kim Mills, Education
Director of HRC
- Rick Partridge, Human Resources Director,
bea Systems, Inc.
- Luis Santiago, Marketing Director, Bell
Atlantic
- T Santora, President Emeritus of Pride At Work,
the official lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) constituency
group of the AFL-CIO
- Lia Shigemura, partner with Dragonvision
Media and former Director of Corporate Diversity for PG&E
