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Fred Bryant Award

The Fred Bryant Award was established by the Alabama Council on Crime and Delinquency in 1972 as a tribute to the organization’s first president.

Mr. Fred Bryant was a State Probation Officer in Anniston, Alabama, and was known throughout the state as a man of dedication to the field of Corrections. He was the president of Alabama Council on Crime and Delinquency in 1948, 1949, and 1950. At that time the organization was known as the Alabama Probation and Parole Association.

Nominees for the award are presented to the Awards Committee by members of ACCD. Any member of ACCD can present a resume on a person the member feels is worthy of the Fred Bryant Award. The Awards Committee selects three candidates and presents these names to the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee elects the person to receive the award by secret ballot.

The Award has been presented to the following:

  • 2022 – Kenny Watts, Volunteer Huntsville DRC
  • 2021 – Michelle Patrick, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 2020 – No conference due to COVID
  • 2019 – Steve Watson, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 2018 – Bridget McGraw, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 2017 – Sarah Still, Pardons and Paroles
  • 2016 – Eddie Cook,  Alabama Board Pardons and Paroles Board Member
  • 2015 – Jeffery Williams, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 2014 – Grantt Culliver, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 2013 – Elaine Lewis, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 2012 – Darrell Morgan, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 2011 – Sharon Shannon, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 2010 – Vince Fallin, Agilent Technologies
  • 2009 – Windy Johnson, U.S. Federal Probation
  • 2008 – Joe Deese, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 2007 – Pam Pettis, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 2006 – John Cummins, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 2005 – Gladys Deese, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 2004 – Kathryn Quattlebaum, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 2003 – Bill Curtis, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 2002 – Terry McDonnell, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 2001 – William Law, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 2000 – David Mixon, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 1999 – Gwendolyn Mosley, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 1998 – Martha White, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 1997 – Lynda Moody, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 1996 – Alton Morgada, U.S. Probation Officer
  • 1995 – Onelia House, U.S. Probation Officer
  • 1994 – Kathleen Holt, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 1993 – Susan Freeman, U.S. Probation Officer, Birmingham
  • 1992 – Joyce Jones, Jefferson County Family Court
  • 1991 – Jack Hunter, Alabama Department of Youth Services
  • 1990 – Ron Sutton, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 1989 – Warren Gaston, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 1988 – William H. Cobb, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 1987 – George Phyfer, Alabama Department of Youth Services
  • 1986 – Elmo Graves, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 1985 – Jim D. Morrison, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 1984 – Tom Sorrells, District Attorney- Houston & Henry
  • 1983 – Freddie V. Smith, Alabama Department of Corrections
  • 1983 – Carl Nowell, Rehab of Crippled Children’s Services
  • 1982 – Kenneth Law, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 1981 – Barbara Montoya, Montgomery Co. Juvenile Probation Officer
  • 1980 – Anthony Lee, Director of Montgomery Restitution Ctr.
  • 1979 – Gene Wood, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 1978 – Robert M. Hill Jr., House of Representatives, Florence
  • 1977 – Dalton Moss, U.S. Probation Officer
  • 1976 – Robert G. Davis, Alabama Law Enforcement Planning
  • 1975 – Rufux Nix, U.S. Probation Officer, Birmingham
  • 1974 – J.B. Hill, Alabama Boys Industrial School
  • 1973 – Joseph Bivona, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles
  • 1972 – L.B.Stephens, Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles