This award honors an alumnus who has consistently provided exemplary service to Westminster, enhancing the mission, success, stature, and well-being of the School.

Clay Rolader has been a lifelong fan and supporter of Westminster. He was a member of the 1971 state championship football team and an active member of the chorale and theater programs. He graduated with a love of learning that propelled him to undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard University and a master’s degree from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. After a career in the worlds of law, real estate and investment advice, he returned to Westminster to teach English in the Upper School and coach the boys varsity soccer team, which he did with great gusto. For the past 15 years, Clay has been president of Fuqua Capital, and he currently serves on the board of the J.B. Fuqua Foundation, the Tull Charitable Foundation, and the Southern Environmental Law Center. He is also an advisor to the R. Howard Dobbs Jr. Foundation and One Hundred Miles, a nonprofit working to protect and preserve Georgia’s coast. He was a member of the Westminster Board of Trustees for 19 years, and he’s been actively involved in fundraising for a number of successful School capital campaigns and milestone reunion years for the Class of 1972. His devotion to Westminster has been proven time and again by his ongoing service to the school.

Westminster recognizes and honors outstanding personal, business, or professional achievements by alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award.

Marc Lipsitch is a professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. After Westminster, Marc studied philosophy at Yale University and mathematical biology at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. Since 2021, he has been part-time at the Centers for Disease Control as the director for science of the new Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics. Trained as an evolutionary biologist, Marc teaches infectious disease epidemiology at Harvard and runs a research group focused on the impact of immunity, vaccination, and antibiotic treatment on pathogenic microbes and the consequences for human health and disease. He has been a prominent voice in research and science communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has been a vocal advocate for proper oversight and research ethics for virologic and clinical research. Marc won the Kenneth Rothman Epidemiology Prize in 2011 and is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the National Academy of Medicine. In 2009, he was inducted into Westminster's Thompson Science and Technology Hall of Fame. He credits his Westminster teachers with kindling his love of math and science and teaching him the scientific habits he uses every day.

Westminster recognizes and honors outstanding personal, business, or professional achievements by alumni with the Distinguished Alumni Award.

Claire Sulmers is the CEO and Founder of Fashion Bomb Daily, one of the most influential media and retail companies in the world and a top destination for multicultural fashionistas. Her pioneering work ushered in a new wave of digital journalism and e-commerce that fed and fueled an underserved community of diverse fashion lovers who wanted to see themselves reflected in popular culture while learning more about celebrity style, design, and international trends. Claire holds a degree in romance languages and literatures and African American studies from Harvard University. Beyond developing and directing content for Fashion Bomb Daily and its affiliate sites for the past 17 years, Claire has written a book, The Bomb Life, and now leads a team of 20 for Fashion Bomb Daily's media, e-commerce, marketing, and event platforms. Her body of work and online following—now numbering more than two million—have made Claire the influencer of choice for major corporate brands who want to reach her audience, including Toyota, Verizon, Macy's, and others. In addition, Claire has done extensive style writing for other platforms including Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, and ESSENCE Magazine.