GIA honours Susan Jacques with prime achievement award

The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has introduced president and chief government  Susan M. Jacques with its highest honour, the Richard T. Liddicoat Award for Distinguished Achievement.

Jacques obtained the award in recognition of her management and long-standing contribution to the organisation and the broader gem and jewelry trade. 

The award was introduced throughout the institute’s Board of Governors assembly in Carlsbad, California by GIA board chair Lisa Locklear and president and chief government Pritesh Patel. 

Jacques, who stepped down as GIA’s sixth president and chief government in August, is because of retire on the finish of the yr.

Since its institution in 1994, the Richard T. Liddicoat Award for Distinguished Achievement has been introduced to only 14 people. 

Among the many previous recipients nonetheless contributing to GIA are analytical microscopist John Koivula, government vice chairman and chief laboratory and analysis officer Tom Moses, and distinguished analysis fellow Dr James E. Shigley.

The board additionally recognised the service of retiring governor Barbara L. Dutrow, professor of geology at Louisiana State College, who joined the board in 2016.

Locklear mentioned: “It’s with nice delight and admiration that we current the Richard T. Liddicoat Award for Distinguished Achievement to Susan Jacques. A frontrunner all through her outstanding profession, Susan has been the guts and soul of GIA.”

Patel added: “Susan’s imaginative and prescient, integrity, compassion and unwavering dedication have influenced GIA, the gem and jewelry trade, and everybody she has shared her time with. That positivity will resonate for years to return.”