Pierre Toussaint Medallion Recipients
- 2022
- Most Reverend Joseph A. Espaillat II (Auxiliary Bishop, Archdiocese of New York Pastor and Youth Ministry Spiritual Director)
- Nellie & Herbert Thomas, Jr. (Entrepreneurs, Benefactors and Alumni of Xavier University of Louisiana)
- 2021
- Reverend Gregory C. Chisholm, S.J. (Pastor and Educator)
- Ms. Helen T. Lowe (Nonprofit Development Strategist)
- + Reverend Dr. Thomas G. Schaefer (Posthumously) (Pastor, Missionary and Educator)
- 2020
- Ms. Keisha Sutton-James (Chair, Percy Sutton Foundation)
- + Mr. Percy Ellis Sutton (Posthumously) (Political Leader Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Activist and Attorney)
- 2019
- Order of Malta – American Association
- + Ms. Toni Morrison (Posthumously) (Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Educator)
- 2018
- Peter James Johnson Jr., Esq. (President, Leahey & Johnson, P.C.)
- Ramon Tallaj, M.D. (Chairman of the Board, SOMOS Community Care)
- 2017
- Dr. Pernessa C. Seele (Founder & Chief Executive Officer, The Balm in Gilead, Inc.)
- +Reverend Monsignor Howard W. Calkins (Posthumously) (Beloved Priest of the Archdiocese)
- +Reverend Monsignor Paul A. Lenz (Posthumously) (Former National Director, Black and Indian Mission Fund)
- Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New York in recognition of their Centennial Anniversary ~ 2017
- 2016
- Dominique Dawes (Multiple Olympic Gold-medal gymnast)
- M. Roger Holland II (Composer – liturgical music; Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology)
- 2015
- Robert Smith (Founder/CEO of Vista Equity Partners, investor, and philanthropist)
- 2014
- Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook (U.S.. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from 2011-2013)
- Mario J. Paredes (American Bible Society, Presidential Liasion Roman Catholic Ministries)
- 2013
- Rev. Msgr. John Meehan (Senior Priest & Former Pastor – Archdiocese of New York)
- Rev. Msgr. Kevin Sullivan (Executive Director, Catholic Charities – Archdiocese of New York)
- David Ushery (Veteran News Anchor, WNBC News 4 NY)
- 2012
- Most Rev. Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle (Archbishop of Accra, Ghana)
- Deacon Patrick Moynihan
- Oblate Sisters of Providence
- Milton Williams, Jr., Esq.
- 2011
- Dr. Beverly Carroll (Former Assistant Director of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church, USCCB)
- Rev. Reynaldo Culaba, CSsR (Redemptorist Missionary & accomplished artist)
- Joey Lowe (Founder, Israel-at-Heart; Advocate for Ethiopian Jewish Community in Israel)
- 2010
- Archbishop Bernardito Cleopas Auza (Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the U.N.; Former Papal Nuncio to Haiti & Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince)
- +Dr. Dolores Bernadette Grier (Former Vice Chancellor, Archdiocese of New York)
- Kenneth Hackett (Former President of Catholic Relief Services)
- Kevin E. Lofton, FACHE (President & C.E.O., Catholic Health Initiatives)
- 2009
- Gerald S. Adolph (Sr. Partner, Booz & Company & Alumnus/Board member of Cardinal Spellman H.S.)
- Fr. James E. Goode, OFM, Ph.D. (World-renowned Black Catholic Evangelist & Preacher; Founder of the National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life)
- Gerald M. Keenan (Managing Director, Palmer Bellevue LLC; former partner, PriceWaterhouseCooper LLP and Cooper & Lybrand LLP)
- 2008
- Dr. Benjamin S. Carson (World-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon & former Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Center; President & Co-founder, Carson Scholars; U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development – appointed in 2017)
- Immaculee Ilibagiza (Survivor of Rwandan genocide; international peace & human rights advocate)
- +Thomas Moran (Chairman, President & CEO, Mutual of America; Chairman of the Board, Concern Worldwide, USA)
- Most Rev. J. Terry Steib, S.V.D., D.D. (Retired Bishop of the Diocese of Memphis)
- Michael Weekes (Retired long-time Sacristan, St. Patrick’s Cathedral)
- 2007
- Ayris & Samuel Granby Jr. (Founders, Granby Funeral Services; Supporters of numerous community causes)
- Stanley E. Grayson (Vice Chairman & COO of M.R. Beal & Company; Co-Chairman of the Board, Catholic Charities – Archdiocese of New York)
- +Verne Oliver (Educator (of over 50 years); Associate Director, Gilder Foundation; Supporter of Archdiocesan Inner-city Schools)
- +Father John Brooks, S.J. (Former President, College of the Holy Cross)
- +His Eminence, Edward Cardinal Egan ( Former Archbishop New York)
- 2006
- Mrs. Marilyn Benta
- Theodore M. Shaw, Esq. (Former Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and Alumnus of Cardinal Spellman H.S.)
- Dr. Stephen Sweeny (Former President, The College of New Rochelle)
- +Ms. Mary Lou Williams (Posthumously) (jazz musician & composer)
- 2005
- Dr. Norman C. Francis (President-Emeritus, Xavier University of Louisiana – the only historically Black, Catholic university in the US)
- Carla Ann Harris (Vice Chairman, Global Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley; Singer, Author & Catholic School Patron: Appointed by President Obama to chair the National Women’s Buisness Council in 2013)
- Melissa M. Freeman, M.D.
- Justice Milton L. Williams (Former Presiding Justice, NYS Supreme Court~Appellate Division)
- 2004
- Mrs. Beryl Thompson-Adolph & +Mr. Leroy G. Adolph
- Mr. Carl Hamilton
- Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory (Archbishop of Atlanta; Former President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops)
- 2003
- Ms. Mary M. Bailey
- Ms. Mildred Mitchell
- 2002
- Mr. Daniel L. Coakley
- Ms. Mary Harwell
- 2001
- Mrs. Lillian Johnson
- Ms. Mary Elizabeth Pettit
- 2000 –
- +Mrs. Mary Cowan
- +Mrs. Estella Diggs
- 1999
- +His Eminence, John Cardinal O’Connor (Former Archbishop of New York; initial supporter of National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life)
- Mrs. Naomi McDowell-Byrd
- 1998
- Major General Rosetta Y. Burke
- Sr. Loretta Theresa Richards, F.H.M.
- 1997
- +Mrs. Dahlia Haskins
- +Mr. Philip Kane
- 1996
- +Bishop Norbert Dorsey, C.P., D.D., S.T.D.
- Mr. Lucien Paul
- 1995
- Mr. Edward Fox (St. Charles Borromeo)
- +Arthur Sheehan (Posthumously)
- 1994
- Sr. Una McCormack
- Mr. Herbert Johnson (Former Director of the Office of Black Ministry)
- 1993
- +Mrs. Ellen Tarry (Author of The Other Toussaint, a biography of Pierre Toussaint)
- 1992
- Fr. Guy Sansaricq (Bishop Guy Sansaricq as of August 2006)
- 1991
- Rev. Charles McTague
- Dr. James Dumpson
- 1990
- Sr. Francesca Thompson, OSF, Ph.D.
- Mr. Maceo A. Thomas, Jr.
- 1989
- Ms. Mae Matthews
- +Mr. Walter J. Petry
- 1988
- +Most Rev. Joseph A. Francis, SVD, D.D.
- +Clara McBride Hale
- 1987
- +Mr. Waldemar A. Roebuck, SFO, LHD, OFM
- Mrs. Estelle Dubuisson
- 1986
- +Rev. Msgr. Owen J. Scanlon
- +Ruth Williams Christie
- 1985
- +Arlington Edinboro
- +Rosetta LeNoire
- 1984
- Rev. Benedict M. Taylor, OFM
- 1983
- +Snowden Eichelberger (Posthumously)
- +Guichard Parris
- 1982
- James Earl Jones (actor and humanitarian)
- Louise Gaynor
- 1981
- Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
- +Fr. John LaFarge (Posthumously)
- 1980
- +Eddie Bonnemere
- The Franciscan Handmaids of the Most Pure Heart of Mary
- 1979
- +Basil Paterson (Former Secretary of State of NY, father of former NY Governor, David Patterson)
- +Gladys Northcroft
- 1978
- +James Vander Zee
- +Judge Harold Stevens
+ DECEASED