Violet Palmer Selected For 2025 SoCal Basketball HOF Lifetime Service Award
By: SoCal Basketball HOF
LOS ANGELES - Cal Poly Pomona NCAA basketball champion and NBA historic referee Violet Palmer has been selected for the prestigious 2025 Southern California Basketball Hall of Fame (SCBBHOF) Lifetime Service Award. She will be honored with the 2025 induction class on Sunday, May 4, 2025 in Anaheim.
Palmer was a guard for two CPP championship basketball teams. She was the first female official to reach the highest level of refereeing NBA games and the first to ever officiate a NBA playoff game.
"Violet has been a pace-setter since coming out of Compton to attend Cal Poly Pomona and then to be such a special role model for women today with making it possible for female officials in the NBA," said Mike Gallups, President of the SCBBHOF. "Violet deserves the recognition as our 2025 Lifetime Service award winner and we are so proud of her accomplishments in basketball."
HONOREES:
2025 SCBBHOF HONOREES: John Block, Elden Campbell, Austin Croshere, Jasmine Dixon, Michelle Greco, Darrall Imhoff, Jason Kapono, Harvey Kitani, Mike LeDuc, Kim Maddox, Cherie Nelson, Jacque Vaughn, Lifetime: Violet Palmer
2024 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Jody Anton Wynn, Ed Azzam, Toby Bailey, Cedric Ceballos, Tyson Chandler, Toya DeCree Holiday, Tyus Edney, Jelani Gardner, Roy Hamilton, Alex Hannum, Brandon Jennings, Adam Keefe, Kevin Kiernan, Maylana Martin Douglas, Lifetime: Dana & David Pump
2023 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Terri Bamford, Bob Boyd, Rich Branning, Lou Cvijanovich, Sa'de Wiley-Gatewood, Kris Johnson, Bill Laimbeer, Greg Lee, Giuliana Mendiola, Willie Naulls, Dwayne Polee Sr., Jeanette Pohlen, Jerry Tarkanian, Freeman Williams, Lifetime: Rainer Wulf
2022 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Bill Armstrong, Stacey Augmon, Jay Bilas, Mitchell Butler, Michael Cooper, Keith Erickson, Nicole Erickson, David Greenwood, Ebony Hoffman, Andre Miller, Eugenia Miller Rycraw, Paul Pierce, Tayshaun Prince, Lorenzo Romar, Willie West, Jr., Candice Wiggins, Lifetime: Steve Fryer
2021 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Rick Adelman, Gilbert Arenas, Joe Caldwell, Baron Davis, Nancy Dunkle, Gail Goodrich, Dennis Johnson, Steve Kerr, Raymond Lewis, David Meyers, Reggie Miller, Harold Miner, Anita Ortega, Byron Scott, Linda K. Sharp, Reggie Theus, Tina Thompson, Sidney Wicks, John Williams, George Yardley. Lifetime: Eric Sondheimer
2020 SCBBHOF HONOREES: Jarron Collins, Jason Collins, Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, Jim Harrick, Casey Jacobsen, Marques Johnson, Lisa Leslie, Don MacLean, Gary McKnight, Ann Meyers Drysdale, Cheryl Miller, Tracy Murray, Pete Newell, Ed O'Bannon, Miles Simon, Kiki VanDeWeghe, Bill Walton, Paul Westphal, Jamaal Wilkes, Leon Wood. Lifetime: Frank Burlison
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