SEJ's honorary members include:
James Detjen
- founding board president (1990-1994)
- conference chair (Michigan State University, 2000)
Robert Engelman
- founding board secretary (1990-1993)
Michael Mansur
- former board member (1993-1994, 1995-97); second vice pres. & membership chair (1997-98); president (1998-2000); treasurer & finance chair (2000-2001)
- former editor of SEJournal
- conference co-chair (Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., 1996)
Beth Parke
- founding executive director (1993-2017)
Gary Polakovic
- former board member (1996-1997, 1999-2000); secretary (1997-1999)
- conference chair (University of California, Los Angeles 1999)
David Ropeik
- former board member (1992-1998); first vice president & programs chair (1998-1999)
- conference chair (MIT, 1995)
Philip Shabecoff
- former board member (1992-1993)
Sara Thurin Rollin
- former board member; treasurer & finance chair (1996-2000)
Rae Tyson
- founding board member (1990-1991); first vice president & programs chair (1990-1996); president (1996-1997)
- judge, SEJ's annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment
- Muck Rack
JoAnn Valenti (d. July 23, 2023)
- former board member; representative for academic membership (1995-1998)
- conference co-chair (Sundance; Brigham Young University, Utah 1994)
- judge, SEJ's annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment
- 2022 recipient of SEJ's Stolberg Award for Meritorious Service
- SEJ remembrance
Morris "Bud" Ward
- SEJ founding member (1990)
- former writer, SEJournal column E-Reporting Biz
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