C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards

The C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards recognize University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill employees each year for unusual, meritorious or superior contributions.

In 2024, then-Interim Chancellor Lee H. Roberts honored the following seven University employees with C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Awards. The winners each received a $10,000 stipend and a citation, presented by then-Interim Chancellor Roberts at the annual luncheon.

To learn more about the recipients, read the announcement story.

	Linc Butler, who came to Carolina in 1997, developed a deep knowledge of HR policies and is a go-to person for many colleagues. He served on the University’s Emergency Response Team, leads the inclement weather policy and sits on countless UNC System task forces in support of improved efficiency.(Photo by Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)
	Summer Montgomery who’s worked at Carolina for nearly 30 years, oversees logistics like registrations, class schedules, classrooms, applications and safety approvals for the University’s largest major. Colleagues call her organized, attentive and able to head off crises before they happen. (Photo by Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)
	Desirée Rieckenberg Rieckenberg’s work means she’s as likely to get a call at 3 a.m. as 3 p.m. concerning a student health or safety issue. She’s at the forefront of responding to some of the most difficult situations, including mental health crises, natural disasters or housing and food insecurity issues.(Photo by Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)
	Khin Su Su Kyi keeps all 10 floors and 343,000 square feet of Marsico Hall in tiptop shape. She’s worked in the medical research building since it opened, taking care of the lobby and coffee shop, cleaning restrooms, mopping up spills and washing windows. (Photo by Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)
	Robin Lee is the reason that Kenan Residence Hall isn’t just a building to live in for 120 Carolina students but their home. Lee, or Miss Robin to the students, arrives at 7 a.m. each day and begins cleaning before the residents are awake. (Photo by Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)
	Nicholas Siedentop Siedentop’s work may “be invisible to the wider university community,” but it has a huge impact on every undergraduate seeking a degree at Carolina. He oversees efforts to modernize and digitize the University’s curriculum processes, including the introduction of the online undergraduate catalog, academic policies and review of all aspects of Carolina’s majors and minors. (Photo by Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)
	Elizabeth Williams (posthumous winner) was a “keeper of light and joy” in South Building before her sudden passing in November. Her tenure at Carolina began after a career in banking, raising her children and serving as guardian ad litem to many more children. (Photo by Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill)