2010 -- THE LONE TEXAN won the Reader's Choice 2009 Best Western Romance from Love Western Romances.com

2009 -- TALL, DARK, & TEXAN and TWISTED CREEK win National Readers' Choice Awards.

2006 -- R.I.T.A. award for THE TEXAN'S REWARD Inducted into the Romance Writer's Hall of Fame

2005 -- FINDING MARY BLAINE wins the National Readers' Choice Award.

2004 -- THE WIDOWS OF WICHITA COUNTY is awarded Best Over All Single Title/Romantic Suspense in the Winter Rose Contest sponsored by the North Texas RWA Yellow Rose Romance Writers.

November 14, 2002 -- Honored as a Distinguished Alumni at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

August 2002 -- Installed as Writer-in-Residence at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas.

January 2000 -- Jodi Thomas's book TO WED IN TEXAS was on the USA Today Bestseller List and the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller Extended List for three weeks.

July 1999 -- Jodi Thomas was awarded a Career Achievement Award for outstanding fiction by the readers of Romantic Times Magazine.

June 1998 -- USA Today added Jodi's new book THE TEXAN'S TOUCH to the list of the top 150 bestselling books, fiction and non-fiction across the USA.

May 1998 -- Jodi Thomas was awarded the Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times Magazine for her outstanding contributions to women's fiction over the past ten years.

April 1998 -- the HOLT MEDALLION, honoring Outstanding Literary Talent was given by the Virginia Romance Writers to Jodi Thomas for her eleventh book, TWO TEXAS HEARTS, naming it the Best Historical Women's Fiction for that year.

1991, 1994 -- Jodi Thomas books win R.I.T.A. Awards from Romance Writers of America for Best Historical Romance written, nationwide.