The Braden Award, named in honor of longtime professor Andrew Dale Braden, is awarded to an outstanding leader in the professional practice community who has made distinctive contributions to the knowledge and advancement of the discipline of accountancy.
Past Recipients
- 2017 Mark Weinberger
- Global Chairman, EY
MBA and JD Alumnus of Case Western Reserve University
- 2016 Robert H. Herz
- Former Chairman, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
- 2015 Jeanette M. Franzel
- Board Member, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
- 2014 Judith H. O'Dell
- President, O'Dell Valuation Consulting LLC
- 2013 Gene L. Dodaro
- Comptroller General of U.S. and Head of the GAO
- 2012 James H. Quigley
- Senior Partner, Deloitte LLP,
Former CEO, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.
- 2011 Charles A. Bowsher
- Former Comptroller General of U.S. and Head of the GAO
- 2010 Charles D. Niemeier
- Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
- 2009 Donald T. Nicolaisen
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- 2008 Dan M. Guy
- AICPA
- 2007 Gretchen R. Haggerty
- United States Steel Corporation
- 2006 James G. Castellano
- Chairman of the Board, RubinBrown LLP
- 2005 J. Michael Crooch
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- Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board
- 2004 Peter R. Bible
- Chief Accounting Officer, General Motors Corporation
- 2003 J. Michael Cook
- Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte LLP
Serving on the Advisory Board of The Directorship Search Group
- 2002 David Mosso
- Chairman, Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
- 2001 Donald Kirk
- Public Oversight Board
- 2000 Olivia Kirtley
- AICPA Board of Examiners
- 1999 James Leisenring
- Financial Accounting Standards Board
- 1998 Arthur Siegel
- Independence Standards Board
- 1997 Michael Sutton
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- 1996 Robert Mednick
- Andersen LLP
- 1995 Robert Elliott
- KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
- 1994 Edmund L. Jenkins
- Andersen LLP
- 1993 Jerry D. Sullivan
- Public Oversight Board
- 1992 Walter P. Scheutze
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- 1991 Gerald A. Polansky
- Deloitte & Touche LLP
- 1990 William D. Hall
- Andersen LLP
- 1989 Gaylen Larson
- Household International
- 1988 Robert May
- Andersen LLP
- 1987 Dennis Beresford
- Financial Accounting Standards Board
- 1986 Clarence Sampson
- Financial Accounting Standards Board
- 1985 Mario Formichella
- Ernst & Young LLP
- 1984 Robert Neary
- Ernst & Young LLP
- 1983 Louis E. Levy
- KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
