David Mulford '59 was awarded the Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award. David Mulford was appointed ambassador to India in 2004 by President George W. Bush and served until February of this year. His previous public service includes an appointment as undersecretary and assistant secretary of the U.S. treasury for international affairs, serving as the senior international economic policy official at the department of the treasury. Mulford received an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree in 1984 from Lawrence and in 2000 was inducted into the college’s athletic Hall of Fame. He has been recognized with the Legion d’Honneur from the President of France (1990), the Alexander Hamilton Award, the highest award bestowed by the Secretary of the Treasury for extraordinary service (1992), the Order of May for Merit from the President of Argentina (1993), and the Officer’s Cross of the Medal of Merit from the President of Poland (1995).
Lawrence Today magazine, Summer 2009
