Dolly with the Lindy Boggs Award from the Stennis Center for Public Service's Southern Women in Public Service Conference. The award honors a Southern woman who exemplifies "patriotism, courage, integrity and leadership through public service.” Dolly was its first non-political recipient.

Gov. Phil Bredesen (D-Tenn.) and U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey, who presented Dolly with the trophy, look on as she poses with it.