WALTER JUDD FREEDOM AWARD

(l.-r.) Mary Anastasia O'Grady of the Wall Street Journal and Otto Reich, former ambassador to Venezuela, accept their 2012 Walter Judd Freedom Award.

Donald Rumsfeld speaks to TFAS students, donors and internship supervisors at the 2011 Walter Judd Freedom Award Luncheon.

(r.) Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton was given the 2009 Walter Judd Freedom Award on July 23, 2009. He is pictured here with (l.-r.) 2008 recipient Dr. Lee Edwards and TFAS President Roger Ream.

The Walter Judd Freedom Award is presented annually by the Center for International Relations and The Fund for American Studies to recognize individuals who have advanced the cause of freedom in the United States and abroad.

One of the founders of The Fund for American Studies, Walter Henry Judd (1898-1994) was one of the leading statesmen and orators of the 20th century. He began his career as a medical missionary in China and was elected to Congress from Minnesota in 1942, where he served for 20 years. He was recognized as a leading expert in Asian affairs and advised every president from Truman to Reagan. President Reagan conferred the Presidential Medal of Freedom upon Judd in 1981.

Past recipients include:

2012: Mary Anastasia O'Grady, editorial board member and columnist at the Wall Street Journal and Otto Reich, former ambassador to Venezuela

2011: Donald Rumsfeld, Former United States Secretary of Defense

2010: Suzanne Scholte, President of the Defense Forum Foundation

2009: Ambassador John Bolton

2008: Dr. Lee Edwards, chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation

2007: General Edward L. Rowny, Former Ambassador and LTG USA (Ret.)

2006: U.S. Rep. Henry J. Hyde

2005: Dr. Charles Krauthammer

2004: Dr. Edwin J. Feulner

2002: Dr. George J. Viksnins

2001: U.S. Rep. Philip M. Crane

2000: U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart & Ms. Elena Amos

1999: President Ronald Reagan

1998: U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf

1997: Dr. Harry Wu

1996: The Honorable Jack Kemp

1995: Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick

1994: Mr. William F. Buckley, Jr.