The Distinguished Citizen Award recognizes noteworthy and extraordinary leadership of citizens in communities across the US. Honoring distinguished citizenship delivers a message to our youth that character counts. The lives of distinguished citizens put into place guideposts that serve to inspire our youth to lead, to accept responsibility, and to care about principles and causes beyond self-interest. 

Honoring Judy Kleinberg - President of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and former Mayor of the City of Palo Alto.

Proceeds from this event will help support many important Pacific Skyline Council programs, including ScoutReach - which provides Scouting opportunities for ALL youth, regardless of economic circumstance, neighborhood, or ethnicity.

Registration for this virtual event is FREE. Individuals will have the opportunity to make a charitable contribution through the registration process.

All donors who make a gift at one of the sponsor levels will be recognized at the event and on our website.

Judy’s bio:

Currently the President of the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and former Mayor of Palo Alto, Judy is a business law attorney with extensive legal and business experience in profit and nonprofit businesses, as well as in government, media, health and social services, philanthropy, and law. Prior to joining the Chamber of Commerce in 2014, she successfully managed many start-ups, with extensive experience advising new businesses on corporate formation and policies. An award-winning nonprofit executive, she has successfully created and led both public interest and private grant-making organizations, taking them from small single-office to multi-site, multi-program organizations. An honors graduate of the Univ. of Michigan and UC Berkeley’s School of Law where she was a member of the Law Review, Judy taught business law for over 10 years. Among her multiple honors are being named “Woman of the Year” by the California State Legislature, and a “Woman of Influence” by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Past Distinguished Citizen Award recipients include:

Marie Chuang, Bill Graham, Bill Long, Wendy Young & Mark Convery, David & Lynn Mitchell, Bill Reller, Bill Floyd, Carol Mayer Marshall & Robert Beresford Williams, Allen Phipps, Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, Jr., and Rebecca (Becky) Morgan, among others.
 
Proceeds from the event help support the Pacific Skyline Council’s ScoutReach program which provides opportunities for ALL youth, regardless of economic circumstance, neighborhood, or ethnicity to have an enriching and life-changing Scouting experience!
 
For over 100 years, the Boy Scouts of America has led the nation in providing citizenship training for American youth. Through the years, Scouting has provided young people with character development programs based on values found in the Scout Oath: duty to God, duty to country, duty to others, and duty to self. Today’s often-heard call for a return to ethical behavior, self-reliance, and caring and concern for others refers precisely to the values expressed in the Scout Law, the bedrock of the movement since 1910.