CHLI 21st Annual Gala and Leadership Awards

2024 CHLI Gala and Leadership Awards – Empowering Our Values: Family, Community, Leadership 

U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and U.S. Representative Nicole Malliotakis were recognized with the CHLI Leadership in Public Service Award, as well as the President of Paraguay who received the CHLI Founders International Leadership Award. 

2023 CHLI 20 Year Anniversary Gala and Leadership Awards Strength and Diversity 

Representative Sharlett Mena was honored as the first CHLI Alumni elected to public office.

2022 CHLI Gala and Leadership Awards Strength and Diversity 

Senator Tim Scott, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and the Honorable Mark Andrew Green

Remarks by CHLI Founder and Chairman Lincoln Diaz-Balart at 18th Annual Gala & Awards

2021 CHLI Leadership in Public Service Award and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen International Leadership Award
Senator Rob Portman and Congressman Adriano received the Leadership in Public Service Award, and The Honorable Zygimantas Pavilionis Pavilionis received the 2021 Ileana-Ros Lehtinen International Leadership Award.

2020 Leadership in Public Service Honoree, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt

Leadership in Public Service Award Recipients U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (MO) and U.S. Representative Pete Aguilar (CA) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen International Leadership Award Recipient, Rosa María Payá, Leader of Cuba Decide and Human Rights Activist.

2019 CHLI Ileana Ros-Lehtinen International Leadership Award Presented to Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States
(L-R) Congresswoman Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, CHLI Treasurer John Hoel, CHLI Board Member Joe Avila, Gala Chair Nathalie Rayes, Chairman The Honorable Lincoln Diaz-Balart, former Congresswoman The Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Congressman Henry Cuellar and CHLI Board Members

2018 CHLI Ileana Ros-Lehtinen International Leadership Award
(L-R) CHLI Gala Chair Nathalie Rayes, Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, Congressman Bill Flores, CHLI Chairman The Honorable Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, her husband Dexter Lehtinen, and their daughter Patricia Lehtinen Silva, with CHLI Board Members