Dolores Huerta - Honors

Honors

In 1997, Huerta was named one of the three most important women of the year by Ms. Magazine.

Huerta was an inaugural recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights from President Bill Clinton in 1998. That same year, Ladies' Home Journal recognized her as one of the 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century, along with such women leaders as Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher, Rosa Parks, and Indira Gandhi.

In 2002, Huerta was awarded the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.

On September 30, 2005, she became an honorary sister of Kappa Delta Chi sorority (Alpha Alpha chapter - Wichita State University).

In May 2006, in recognition of her numerous achievements, Huerta received an honorary degree from Princeton University. She was lauded in the ceremony: "Through her insatiable hunger of justice —La Causa— and her tireless advocacy, she has devoted her life to creative, compassionate, and committed citizenship".

Huerta was co-recipient (along with Virgilio Elizondo) of the 2007 Community of Christ International Peace Award .

On May 18, 2007, she announced her endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president, and at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Huerta formally placed Clinton's name into nomination.

In December 2008, Huerta was recognized by United Neighborhood Centers of America with its highest individual honor, the Jane Addams Distinguished Leadership Award at its National Policy Summit in Washington, DC.

On June 12, 2009, Huerta was awarded the UCLA Medal, UCLA's highest honor, during the UCLA College of Letters and Science commencement ceremony.

She is one of the subjects of Sylvia Morales' 2009 film, A CRUSHING LOVE, the sequel to 1979's CHICANA.

In October 2010, Huerta was awarded an honorary degree by Mills College, who lauded her as "a lifetime champion of social justice whose courageous leadership garnered unprecedented national support from farmworkers, women, and underserved communities in a landmark quest for human and civil rights." That same month, she also was awarded an honorary doctorates by University of the Pacific, which also unveiled an official portrait of her for the Architects of Peace Project by artist Michael Collopy.

On 29 May 2012, Huerta received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.

Dolores Huerta is an Honorary Chair of Democratic Socialists of America and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Equality California.

Four elementary schools in California; one school in Fort Worth, Texas; and a high school in Pueblo, Colorado, are named after Dolores Huerta. One of the student centers at Pitzer College, in Claremont, California, is named the Huerta Learning Circle Room in the labor leader's honor.