Presidential Medal Recipients' List

Recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medal, awarded Monday in a White House ceremony: <br><br>â€”Hank Aaron, who in 1974 broke Babe Ruth's home run record. His career record of 755 home runs remains

Tuesday, January 9th 2001, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

Recipients of the Presidential Citizens Medal, awarded Monday in a White House ceremony:

â€”Hank Aaron, who in 1974 broke Babe Ruth's home run record. His career record of 755 home runs remains unbroken. An executive with the Atlanta Braves, Aaron runs the Chasing the Dream Foundation, which helps poor children pursue careers in sports and the arts.

â€”Muhammad Ali, former heavyweight boxing champion. Convicted in 1967 of refusing induction into the Army during the Vietnam War, Ali retired from boxing in 1980 and has traveled the world as a goodwill ambassador.

â€”Juan Andrade Jr., president and director of the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute in Chicago, whose voter registration campaigns signed up more than 1 million voters.

â€”Ruby Bridges, who integrated a Louisiana elementary school at age 6. She runs a nonprofit foundation that promotes education and racial reconciliation.

â€”Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, the first black American to serve as chairman of the Democratic National Committee and as commerce secretary. He died in a plane crash in April 1996 while on a trade mission to the Balkans.

â€”Don Cameron, a former teacher who ran the National Education Association for 20 years. He was a driving force behind an effort by corporate executives to integrate technology in classrooms.

â€”Sister Carol Coston, director of Partners for the Common Good, which has pooled $7.9 million from 99 investing religious institutions to address poverty issues.

â€”Archibald Cox, special prosecutor in the Watergate investigation and past chairman of Common Cause, a lobbying group devoted to campaign finance reform.

â€”Charles DeLisi, a Boston University biomedical engineering professor who, under President Reagan, conceived a project to sequence the human genome.

â€”Jack Greenberg, Columbia University law professor and lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court.

â€”David Ho, a longtime AIDS researcher whose Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center has published groundbreaking studies on the disease.

â€”I. King Jordan, the first deaf president of Gallaudet University and advocate for deaf and disability issues.

â€”Anthony Lewis, a columnist for The New York Times since 1969 and Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting in 1955 and 1963.

â€”Irene Morgan, who was jailed in Gloucester, Va., in 1944 for failing to give her seat on a Greyhound bus to a white man. Her case led the Supreme Court to strike down segregated interstate transportation in 1946.

â€”Constance Baker Motley, a civil rights attorney appointed to the U.S. District Court in New York in 1966, the first black woman federal judge.

â€”Helen Rodriquez-Trias, pediatrician and founder of the Latino Commission on AIDS in New York.

â€”Former Rep. Edward Roybal, D-Calif. Past chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus who advocated legislation for the rights of Hispanics, the elderly, the poor and disabled.

â€”Robert Rubin, former Treasury secretary who presided over Clinton's economic policy from 1995 to 1999.

â€”Former Sen. Warren B. Rudman, co-author of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction law and chairman of a special oversight board that looked into Pentagon investigations of Gulf War veterans' health ailments.

â€”Former White House counsel Charles F.C. Ruff, who was also a former Watergate special prosecutor, U.S. attorney and corporation counsel for the District of Columbia. Ruff died in December.

â€”Rabbi Arthur Schneier, founder and president of the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, which is devoted to religious freedom and human rights issues worldwide.

â€”Eli J. Segal, chairman of the Welfare-to-Work Partnership and former Clinton aide.

â€”Former Rep. John F. Seiberling, author of legislation that tripled the Land and Water Conservation Fund and banned mining in public parks. He is credited with preserving more than 69 million acres of wilderness in 27 states.

â€”Chicago newspaper publisher John H.H. Sengstacke, publisher and editor of the black-owned Chicago Defender and founder of the National Newspaper Publisher Association. Sengstacke died in May 1997.

â€”The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the civil rights leader who brought Martin Luther King Jr. into efforts to integrate public facilities in Alabama and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

â€”Elizabeth Taylor, actress and co-founder of the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

â€”Marion Weisel, wife of Holocaust survivor Elie Weisel who wrote and narrated a documentary about the 1.3 million children who perished in the Holocaust.

â€”Patrisha A. Wright, director of Washington affairs for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.