Audrey Lincourt Schiebler has been awarded the 1990 Medal of Honor for a non-Lawyer in recognition of her pioneering achievements in improving the administration of justice to abused and neglected children. With dedication and experience stemming from her professional career as a nurse, and with empathy conceived in raising six children of her own, Audrey Lincourt Schiebler has shared her time, talents and inexhaustible enthusiasm to protect and better the lives of Florida’s children.
Co-founder of the Alachua County Council on Child Abuse, the Florida Center for Children and Youth, and myriad child advocacy organizations over the years, her crowning accomplishment is the development of our state’s Guardian ad Litem program, which has become a model for the nation. As the first Guardian ad Litem director in the 8th Judicial Circuit, Audrey Lincourt Schiebler’s vision and labor led to acceptance by the judiciary of the Guardian ad Litem program as “the eyes and ears of the court”.
She is honored for her success in instilling in the conscience of government and a cadre of citizen volunteers the responsibility to protect the interests of our children from abuse and neglect and from the injustices which would otherwise arise from a system insensitive and unresponsive to the needs of those most powerless to protect themselves.
