The Marie Civic Leadership Award

The Marie Interfaith Civic Leadership Award was started in 2004 by Paul and Irving Spitzberg to honor their mother, Marie Spitzberg. The purpose of the Marie Award is to recognize leaders who are able to bring people from different faiths and different parts of the community to address important issues and challenges which face Arkansas.

The Marie Award Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the 2010 Marie Award was presented to State Senator Joyce Elliott.

The centerpiece of The 2010 Marie Award event will be a panel discussion examining the economic benefits of immigration from the perspective of Education, Corporations, Cultural competency, Health Care, Economics and Entrepreneurism.

I hope each of you who visit this web site will capture the vision of The Marie Award and become engaged in the work of making Arkansas a better place for all to live.

Stephen Copley
Chair, The Marie Award Board of Directors

About The Marie Award

In 2004, Paul and Irving Spitzberg initiated the Marie Interfaith Civic Leadership Award an award to honor their mother, Marie Spitzberg.

Growing up, they saw a positive role model in her values and civic activities in partnership with their father, Dr. Irving Spitzberg.  Marie Spitzberg lives interfaith leadership in her service to all regardless of religion or economic circumstance.

Past recipients of the Marie Interfaith Civic Leadership Award include:

Mimi Dortch, 2005
Jim Davis, 2006
Grainger Williams, 2007
The congregations of Bethel AME Church and Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 2008
US Sen. David Pryor, 2009
State Sen. Joyce Elliott, 2010

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The logo of the Marie Interfaith Civic Leadership Award symbolizes how people of all faiths look upward to God and reach outward toward each other. It is rendered in black and white to represent that people of all races as well as all faiths are working together to lead their community.