The Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage is presented annually by The Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest. The Callaway Award "recognizes individuals who take a public stance to advance truth and justice, at some personal risk". The award was established by in 1990 by Joe Callaway to recognize "individuals in any area of endeavor who, with integrity and at some personal risk, take a public stance to advance truth and justice, and who challenged prevailing conditions in pursuit of the common good."
The first recipient of the award was Joseph A. Kinney, of the National Safe Workplace in Chicago, who was credited for his fearless advocacy of safety for America's workers.
In 2006 the Sharon Shaffer, Charlie Swift and Bunnatine Greenhouse were awarded the prize. Shaffer and Swift were military officers who vigorously defended Guantanamo captives before Guantanamo military commissions. Greenhouse was a contracting officer employed by the US Army Corps of Engineers, who exposed financial improprieties.
In 2007, award recipients were: Dahr Jamail (independent journalist in Iraq) and Linda Peeno, M.D., (whistleblower and patient advocate).
In 2012, the award was shared by William Binney & J. Kirk Wiebe for their work on Government Data Centers & Spying on Citizens, as well as John Kiriakou for his work on the Government's Torture Policy.
Past winners
1990
Joe A. Kinney, Marie Cirillio
1991
Roldo Bartimole, Thomas E. Gish and Patricia Ann Burnett Gish, Forrest (Frosty) Troy and Helen B. Troy
1992
Karl Z. Morgan, Robert D. Pollard, Mary P. Sinclair
1993
William J. Lehman, William Reid, Terri Swearingen
1994
Robert Bigham, Julie Boyd, Roger Crisafi, Von Marie Erkert, Sherene Lee Jennings, James Keefer, Thomas Vernon Russell Jr., Dennis Shrader, Steven Craig Slagowski, Joseph A. Villarreal, Carroll E. Cox, Allan Nairn
1995
Lance Hughes, Steven W. Jones, Agnes Mulroy
1996
John Brodeur, Janet Chandler, Peter Gunn Montague
1997
Merrell Williams, Stanton Glantz
1998
Jane Akre, Steve Wilson, David F. Noble
1999
Roberta Baskin, Nancy Olivieri, Martha L. Crouch
2000
Doris Haddock, Paul E. Farmer
2001
Anthony Mazzocchi, Amy Goodman
2002
Barry Commoner, Herbert L. Needleman
2003
John Munsell, Theodore A. Postol
2004
David Graham, Mark Livingston
2005
Bunny Greenhouse, Lieutenant Colonel Sharon A. Shaffer, Lieutenant Commander Charles D. Swift
2006
John Thayer, Thomas Baker, Frank Binns, Martin R. Blanchet, Edward J. Hill, Richard Leonard, Charles Morris, Christian Raley, Scott Smith, Timothy Taylor, Maria Gunnoe, Edward (Ed) Wiley
2007
Dahr Jamail, Linda Peeno
2008
Michael German, Barbara Bailey, Peter Chase, George Christian, Jan Nocek
2009
Frances Crowe, Ivor Van Heerden
2010
Becky A. McClain, Percy and Louise Schmeiser
2011
Concepcion Picciotto, Harry Kelber
2012
William Binney & J. Kirk Wiebe, John Kiriakou
2013
Ramsey Clark (lawyer, U.S. Attorney General [1967-69], antiwar campaigner, defender of due process and the rule of law), Saul Landau (human rights activist, journalist, filmmaker)
2014
Marcy Benstock, Dinesh Thakur
2015
John Crane, James Love and Manon Ress, Jonathan G. Lundgren
2016
Whistleblowers for the Common Good, Robert MacLean, Larry Criscione
2017
Joel Clement, Megan Rice, Michael R. Walli, and Greg Boertje-Obed
2018
Sandra C. Black, John Slowik