The Top Hand Award recognizes an individual who has given extraordinary service to the Texas Exes and the University of Texas. Guarded in secrecy, the Top Hand Award recipient is unaware of the honor until the time of presentation. Recipients are selected and awarded by the Association president at a Texas Exes Council meeting.
2017 Recipient
Past Recipients
2016- Letty Fernandez
2015- Lori Lewis-Conerly
2014- Jeff Duchin
2013- Jack Harbin
2012- Natalie Butler
2011- JJ Baskin
2010- Steven W. Leslie, Cole McClellan
2009- Chris Plonsky, Harley Clark
2008- Tim McClure, Bill Powers
2007- Ann Seals, Barbara Guthery
2006- DeLoss Dodds, John Adkins
2005- Charles Roeckle, Alisa Manning Peppers
2004- Porky Haberman, Jerry Grammer
2003- Susana Aléman, Jane Monday, Steve Ballantyne
2002- Marilyn White
2001- Larry Faulkner
2000- Rod Caspers
1998- Larry Temple, Peyton Townsend
1997- Ricardo Hinojosa, Jane Rhodes
1996- Bob Inman, Cyndi Taylor Krier, Elspeth Rostow
1995- Margaret Berry, Joe M. Kilgore, Glenn Richter, Ed Sharpe
1994- John Barnhill, Bob Berdahl
1993- Larry Temple
1992- Lowell Lebermann, Jon Newton
1991- Porky Haberman
1990- John Harbin, Weldon Smith
1989- Betty Sue Flowers, Sylvia McNatt, John Fainter
1988- Bob Witt
1987- William Cunningham
1983- Tom Law, Shirley Bird Perry, Robert Post
1982- Oscar Zuniga, Bebe Inkley, Ken & Mary Lou Nuhn
1981- Kent Borden, Joe Belden, Phil Gemmer, Hum Mandell, Crockett & Jerry English
1980- Jim Colvin
1979- John Ben Sheppard, Lorene Rogers
1978- John Stuart, Gordon Rountree
1976- Wales Madden Jr., Jean Kaspar, Mike Cook, Jack Maguire, Barbara Stuart
1975- Mae Rowland, Neil Calnan, Bob Odle
1974- Foster Parker
1972- Dan Krausse
1970- Gordon Appleman, Wally Pryor, Pickard Wagner, Carl Welhausen, Virginia Allen, Edward Clark, Joe Neal, Jack Blanton, L. "Brownie" McNeil, Marvin Collie
1969- Thornton Hardie Sr., Richard W. Blalock, Richard W. Blalock, Jubilo Clements, Jack Josey, Charles Prothro, Nellie Connally, Bill Neubauer
1968- Sterling Holloway, Dave Smith, Frank Denius, Ernest F. Smith, Charles Coates
1967- Reese Cleveland