2022 ADA Recipients

Daniels earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education from BGSU and is a graduate of the Howard University School of Law. In 2013, Daniels was selected as the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Greater Los Angeles region.

Prior to starting CMS, Daniels was a vice president of the Marriott Corp.; vice president of development for Host International, the largest company in the airport concession business; and president of educational dining at Aramark Corp. He started his professional career as a child advocate and civil rights lawyer with the Children’s Defense Fund.

Daniels has been actively involved in civic activities. He served on the board of directors of AMAC, a national airport trade association; the national board of directors for the 100 Black Men of America and locally as a board member of the Los Angeles Urban League; a board member of The Los Angeles Educational Partnership; president of the board of the Greater Los Angeles African American Chamber of Commerce; and was appointed by the Mayor of Los Angeles as a  commissioner on the Los Angeles Convention Center Authority.

Daniels is a trustee of both the ArtCenter College of Design and The Ray Charles Foundation. He is also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, having pledged at BGSU, and a member of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity.

Daniels and his wife of 50 years, Dr. Monet Daniels, a retired educator, reside in Los Angeles. They have two children and two grandsons.

From 1994 to 2001, Hollis held various positions in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, including that of co-counsel in the Duško Tadić case, the first litigated case in an international criminal tribunal since the Nuremberg trials; lead prosecutor in both the reopening of the Furundžija case, in which rape was charged as torture; and the preparatory stage of the case against former Serbian President Slobodan Milošević until her departure from the ICTY in 2001.

Hollis has trained judges, prosecutors and investigators in Cambodia, Indonesia and Iraq. She also assisted victims of international crimes in Colombia and in the Democratic Republic of Congo to prepare submissions requesting investigations by the International Criminal Court.

Before entering the international arena, Hollis served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, and as an officer in the US Air Force, retiring with the rank of colonel, having served as an Air intelligence briefing officer and judge advocate, the latter primarily as a prosecutor at the trial and appellate level.

After earning her bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from Bowling Green State University, Hollis earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Denver. She also has honorary degrees from Case Western School of Law and BGSU.

Among her other honors, Hollis was inducted into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame in 2011. In 2018, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities named her the recipient of its Distinguished Alumnus Award, which is presented to an individual who has achieved acclaim in her or his field and who has made a significant contribution to the public, intellectual or cultural life of the nation.

Her follow-up book, “Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis,” was published by Little, Brown and Co. this summer. It sheds light on drug company settlements while giving voice to the parents of the dead who have become unwitting activists. More importantly, it outlines key strategies to help turn back the overdose crisis.

Macy’s other works include her 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Prize-winning “Factory Man,” which traced the aftermath of globalization in America, and “Truevine,” a racial history that was a Kirkus Prize finalist and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.

A former newspaper writer for The Roanoke (Va.) Times, Macy has also published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, NewYorker.com and The Atlantic. Based out of Roanoke for three decades, Macy earned her bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism from Bowling Green State University, a master’s in English/creative writing from Hollins University and was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard. She has honorary doctorate degrees from Roanoke College and Ferrum College.

A native of Urbana, Ohio, Macy and her husband, Tom Landon, an educator, have two grown kids, Max and Willis.

In addition, he is professor emeritus and a university distinguished teaching professor from Ohio State University, having retired in late 2018. He previously served as interim CEO of Ohio State University Physicians, as well as dean of the College of Business and tenured professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

He has taught over 100 courses in his academic career, primarily at the graduate level, at Ohio State University, Bowling Green State University, the University of Illinois, Chicago and the University of Texas, Dallas. He has authored/co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and professional conference presentations, including the Harvard Business Review, and has delivered over 100 keynote addresses at major conferences.

His community service efforts have focused on pro bono advising at the CEO/board level for a number of central Ohio organizations including LifeCare Alliance/Meal on Wheels, Children’s Hunger Alliance and Homeport affordable housing. He is currently a member of the BGSU Foundation Board, and has also served on the Chancellor’s Advisory Board at the University of Illinois, Chicago, the Ohio State University Medical Center Advisory Board and the Columbus Museum of Art.

Rucci is also co-creator/co-founder of the BRIGHT New Leaders for Ohio Schools, an innovative program in cooperation with the Ohio Legislature and the Ohio Department of Education to prepare new principals and administrators for inner city and rural school districts.

Rucci holds a bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree in industrial and organizational psychology from BGSU and has permanently endowed eight annual scholarships at the University.

He is the proud father of five children – Kelly, Heather, Joshua, Jordan and Sage – and five grandchildren.

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