CODHA would like to honor our members who have shown exceptional service to our association and the profession of dental hygiene. We appreciate you taking time to nominate your peers for these prestigious honors.

Below are the criteria for our three annual awards.

Outstanding Contribution Award:
By action of the 1980 CODHA House of Delegates, this award was established. The following guidelines have been set forth by the Board of Trustees. (CODHA Standing Rules 45-80)
Criteria:
1. Must be a non-officer component member
2. Based on the following merits of contribution on the Component level. (Time period to be considered is from CODHA Annual Session to Annual Session.)
a) Component Community Service
b) Component Involvement
c) Attendance at Component Functions

Deborah Bailey Astroth Distinguished Service Award:
The purpose of this award is to honor an officer or non-officer (as committee chair, appointed officer, or council chair). The award was created to recognize those hygienists that have demonstrated extraordinary service and dedication to the association and/or their component.
Criteria:
1. The candidate shall be a current active member of CODHA/ADHA.
2. The candidate shall have 5 years of cumulative CODHA active membership and association leadership experience (component, constituent, council, or committee; district or national office).
3. The candidate shall have advanced the art and science of dental hygiene or served the association in advancement of policy and procedures.


Ethel Covington Award:
The CODHA Board shall select the award winner as a dental hygienist who best exemplifies the objectives of this Association, as stated in the CODHA Bylaws. Those objectives are:
1. To improve the oral health of the public
2. To advance the art and science of dental hygiene
3. To maintain the highest standards of dental hygiene education and practice
4. To represent and protect the interests of the dental hygiene profession
5. To improve the professional competence of the dental hygienists
6. To foster research in oral health
7. To provide professional communications all in a manner consistent with the ADHA Code of Ethics