The Distinguished Achievement Award honors a Guild member who has achieved the Master Weaver rating and has made a major contribution in the fiber field on the national level.
Dorothy Burton (#874, Master rating 1968, also Potomac Master rating)
Hazel Chase (Master rating 1958)
Constance Gallagher (#592, Master rating 1961)
Betty Shannon (#651, Master rating 1971)
Dorothy Mirth Young (Master rating 1957)
Norma Smayda (#1512, MFA UMass Dartmouth)
Antonia Kormos (#1157, Master rating 1974, HGA Handweaving COE 1976 and 1978)
Mary Snyder (2001, #775, Master rating 1975)
Marlene Marchilena (2006, #1074, Master rating 1989)
Barbara Herbster (2008, #928, Master rating 1981)
Ruth Morrison (2013, #3070, Master rating 1990)
Ute Bargmann (2016, #3833, Hill Institute Master Certificate, 1997)