The Norma B. Connelly Public Affairs Service Award recognizes individuals who have given extraordinary service to Navy Public Affairs. The Chief of Information selects the recipients.

USNPAAA and the Navy Chief of Information established the award in 2008 to honor Norma Connelly, a longtime USNPAA member who extraordinary service as the Chief of Information’s personal executive secretary from September 1978 to July 2000. (Sightings, May 2008, p. 5) Norma passed away in June 2023.

Recipients

2022: CDR Mary Jane Osmena Perry, USN (Ret.)  (Presented posthumously)
​2022: Steven N. Herman

2014: Dr. David Dozier, Professor, San Diego State University (Sightings, October 2014, p.3)
2010: JoAnn Taylor (Note)
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John Carman, Joint Forces Command
CAPT Bruce Cole
LCDR Bruce Colkitt, Assistant PA Detailer
Master Chief Mass Communication Specialist Terry Cosgrove, USN (Ret.)
Susan Fallon, Navy League of the United States
Kathy Quinn, Navy PA Support Element, Norfolk
Mary Rivers
Mary Ruth, Office of Information, Washington, D.C. 
Professor David Sutherland, Syracuse University​
Mrs. Dorothy Thompson, wife of RADM Bill Thompson

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