Rosalynn Carter - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

On October 5, 2002, Carter was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. She became only the third First Lady ever inducted into the Hall of Fame, joining Abigail Adams and Eleanor Roosevelt.

In 1999, she and her husband received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Among her many other awards for service are:

• Dorothea Dix Award, Mental Illness Foundation, 1988
• Georgia Woman of the Year Award, 1996
• Jefferson Award, American Institute for Public Service, 1996
• United Nations Children's Fund International Child Survival Award, 1999
• Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health, Institute of Medicine, 2000
• United States Surgeon General's Medallion, 2000
• American Peace Award along with Jimmy Carter, 2009

She has received honorary degrees from the following institutions:

• H.H.D., Tift College, 1979
• L.H.D., Morehouse College, 1980
• D.P.S., Wesleyan College, 1986
• LL.D., University of Notre Dame, 1987
• D.Litt., Emory University, 1991
• L.H.D., Georgia Southwestern State University, 2001
• LL.D., Regis College, 2002
• Queen's University, 2012

She served as distinguished centennial lecturer at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, from 1988 to 1992. She has been a Distinguished Fellow at the Emory University Department of Women's Studies in Atlanta since 1990.