Braden Award

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

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 of RubinBrown LLP

2005 J. Michael Crooch

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