Leslie Irene Coger Award for Distinguished Performance
NCA Awards for Outstanding Scholarship
The Coger Award was first presented in 1994, and is given to persons who have contributed an outstanding body of live performances. The award may be given to directors, producers, teachers, or performers. The award will normally be given for a body of performance or an outstanding career in performance. It may, in exceptional cases, be given to performers of a single or a smaller body of performance.
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Charles Parrott |
| 2022 | No award |
| 2021 | M. Heather Carver, University of Missouri |
| 2020 | Patricia Suchy |
| 2019 | John M. Allison, Jr. |
| 2018 | Heidi M. Rose |
| 2017 | Matthew Spangler |
| 2016 | Lesa Lockford |
| 2015 | Tracy Stephenson Shaffer |
| 2014 | Tami Spry |
| 2013 | D. Soyini Madison |
| John D. Anderson | |
| 2012 | Karen S. Mitchell |
| 2011 | Elyse Lamm Pineau |
| 2010 | E. Patrick Johnson |
| 2009 | Daniel W. Heaton |
| 2008 | Craig Gingrich-Philbrook |
| 2007 | Lynn C. Miller |
| 2006 | Ron Shields |
| 2005 | Paul H. Ferguson |
| 2004 | Mercilee M. Jenkins |
| 2003 | Ruth Laurion Bowman |
| 2002 | Joni Lee Jones |
| Patricia S. Pace | |
| 2001 | Terry Galloway |
| Donna Marie Nudd | |
| 2000 | M. Lee Potts |
| 1999 | Linda M. Park-Fuller |
| 1998 | Judy Yordon |
| 1997 | Paul C. Edwards |
| 1996 | Annette Martin |
| 1995 | Joanna H. Maclay |
| 1994 | Raymond Schneider |