List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients
Education

List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

Section Title: Education
Table Section Text: None

Recipient	Year	President	Notes

Genevieve Caulfield	1963	John F. Kennedy

James Bryant Conant	1963	John F. Kennedy	With Distinction

Karl Holton	1963	John F. Kennedy

Alexander Meiklejohn	1963	John F. Kennedy

George W. Taylor	1963	John F. Kennedy

Detlev Bronk	1964	Lyndon B. Johnson

Rev Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C.	1964	Lyndon B. Johnson

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover	1980	Jimmy Carter

Margaret McNamara	1981	Jimmy Carter

James E. Cheek	1983	Ronald Reagan

Jerome H. Holland	1985	Ronald Reagan	Posthumous

Frederick Patterson	1987	Ronald Reagan

Hanna Holborn Gray	1991	George H.W. Bush

Antonia Pantoja	1996	Bill Clinton

Ruth Johnson Colvin	2006	George W. Bush

Norman Francis	2006	George W. Bush

Eduardo J. Padrón	2016	Barack Obama

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Ruth Johnson Colvin was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2006.

final_sentence: Ruth Johnson Colvin was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2006.