“Jit” Trainor Award
The Trainor Award is presented annually to an outstanding American or foreigner for distinction in the conduct of diplomacy. The award is named for the late Raymond “Jit” Trainor, the much admired former registrar of the Walsh School of Foreign Service. The Trainor Trust Fund in his honor is overseen by Frank J. Hogan (chairman) and Allison L. Hiltz.
Past Recipients
- 2022 – Ambassador William J. Burns, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (full speech)
- 2020 – Ambassador Marie L. Yovanovitch, Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (full speech)
- 2019 – Ambassador Thomas A. Shannon, Jr., Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
- 2018 – The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State
- 2017 – Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- 2016 – Dr. Ernest Moniz, U.S. Secretary of Energy
- 2014 – Ambassador Wendy Sherman, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State
- 2012 – Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico
- 2011 – Francis M. Deng, UN Special Advisor to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide
- 2009 – Louise Arbour, President and CEO of the International Crisis Group
- 2007 – R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, US Department of State
- 2006 – Mohamed El Baradei, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Association
- 2005 – John D. Negroponte, U.S. Director of National Intelligence
- 2004 – John C. Danforth, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- 2003 – James D. Wolfensohn on behalf of The World Bank Group, President of the World Bank
- 2002 – Lakhdar Brahimi, UN Special Envoy for Afghanistan
- 2001 – Wesley K. Clark, Supreme Allied Commander Europe
- 2000 – Dennis B. Ross, U.S. Ambassador and Special Middle East Coordinator
- 1999 – Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
- 1998 – Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General
- 1997 – Amr Moussa, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Egypt
- 1996 – Walter F. Mondale, U.S. Ambassador to Japan
- 1995 – Thomas Graham, Jr. and Jayantha Cudah Bandara Dhanapala, Special Representative for Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Disarmament; Sri Lankan Ambassador to the U.S.
- 1992 – Thomas R. Pickering, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1991 – Rinaldo Petrignani, Italian Ambassador to the U.S.
- 1990 – David D. Newsom, Author and Columnist for the Christian Science Monitor
- 1989 – Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin, Advisor to the Soviet Presidency
- 1988 – Max M. Kampelman and Mike Mansfield, Counselor to the US Department of State; United States Ambassador to Japan
- 1987 – Tommy T. B. Koh, President of the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea
- 1986 – Arthur A. Hartman, U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union
- 1984 – Lord Carrington, Sixth Secretary-General of NATO
- 1983 – Deane Hinton, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
- 1982 – Antonio Carrillo Flores, Mexican Ambassador to the US and the Soviet Union
- 1981 – William Bowdler, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
- 1980 – Phillip C. Habib and U. Alexis Johnson, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs; US Delegate to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
- 1979 – David K. E. Bruce (Posthumously) and Berndt von Staden, U.S. Ambassador and Diplomat; West German Ambassador to the United States
- 1978 – Ellsworth Bunker, Advisor to President Carter on the Torrijos-Carter Treaties