WVPA Thomas E. Menighan Lifetime Achievement Award

This award has been established to commemorate the contributions of Past APhA CEO and WV native, Thomas Menighan. It recognizes up to one pharmacist annually for outstanding service to the pharmacy profession. This is the highest honor bestowed by the WV Pharmacists Association.

Criteria include:

• The recipient has been a member of state and national pharmacy organizations for over 10 years and has demonstrated involvement in aspects of state and national legislative affairs. The recipient can meet the qualification by being a member of any state organization and the American Pharmacists Association, but the nominee should have a direct or indirect connection to/impact in West Virginia.
• The recipient has sustained contributions to the pharmacy profession through state and/or national organizations.
• The recipient should be recognized as an individual with high character among their peers and be highly esteemed both inside and outside the pharmacy profession.
• The recipient should demonstrate the profession's advancement and be influential in contributing to leadership while promoting leadership in others.
• The recipient can not be a previous recipient of the award.