E-mail this pagePulitzer Prize Board 1996–1997
The Board presided over the judging process that resulted in the 1997 winners and finalists. --Sissela Bok, chairman; Seymour Topping, administrator.
Barnes, Andrew, editor, president and C.E.O., St. Petersburg Times
Boccardi, Louis D., president and chief executive officer, Associated Press
Bok, Sissela, writer and philosopher
Carroll, John S., editor and executive vice president, Los Angeles Times
Dotson Jr., John L., president and publisher, Akron Beacon Journal
Fuller, Jack, president, Tribune Publishing Company
Gates Jr., Henry Louis, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Humanities, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Ketter, William, vice president and assistant to the publisher, The Boston Globe, Boston, MA
Overholser, Geneva, ombudsman, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
Padwe, Sandy, acting dean, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University (ex-officio), New York, NY
Pederson, Rena, editorial page editor/vice president, The Dallas Morning News
Risser, James V., director, John S. Knight Fellowships, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Rowe, Sandra Mims, editor, The Oregonian
Rugaber, Walter, president and publisher, The Roanoke Times, Roanoke, VA
Rupp, George, president, Columbia University
Safire, William, columnist, The New York Times, New York, NY
Seaton, Edward, editor in chief, Manhattan Mercury, Manhattan, Kan.
Topping, Seymour, administrator, The Pulitzer Prizes, Columbia University, New York, NY
Vendler, Helen, Porter University Professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Yarbrough, Marilyn, professor of law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
