Honorary Life Member
The Honorary Life Member Award recognizes individuals for long, exceptional and/or exemplary career and service to GEDA, or for extraordinary efforts directly related to the purposes of GEDA. Honorary Life Member status may be awarded at anytime following nomination by a member of the Board. Honorary Life Member status shall require approval by at least 12 votes among the full Board of Directors (the 17 Directors eligible to vote), voting by secret ballot.
| Cullen Larson | 2007 |
| Martha Schoonmaker | 2007 |
| John Malone | 2005 |
| Glenn Cornell | 2004 |
| Mike Lott | 2004 |
| George Rogers | 2003 |
| Jim Steed | 2003 |
| Sherman Dudley | 2001 |
| Randolph B. Cardoza | 2000 |
| James L. Martin, Jr. | 2000 |
| Barbara Gunn | 1998 |
| Roy Cooper | 1997 |
| Robert H. Evans | 1996 |
| David Morgan | 1996 |
| Charlotte Anderson | 1989 |
| Andy Andrews | 1989 |
| George Dubuc | 1986 |
| W. Milton Folds | 1986 |
| John Gilliland | 1985 |
| James D. Hall, Jr. | 1985 |
| George Busbee | 1984 |
| Penn Worden | 1982 |
| Bob Cassell | 1981 |
| Louis W. Truman | 1976 |