Our Laureates
Junior Achievement of Kentuckiana Hall of Fame Laureates
Gill Holland
- 2025
The Green Building
Dr. Dawn Wade
- 2025
Managing Partner & Chief Strategy Officer
Nimbus
Stacey Wade
- 2025
CEO/ECD
Nimbus
Ann Wells
- 2025
Former Chair & CEO
Commonwealth Bank & Trust
Alice J. Schleicher
- 2023
AJS Inc. and Associates
Michael B. Mountjoy
- 2023
MCM CPAs & Advisors
W. Frank Harshaw
- 2023
Harshaw Trane
Stephen E. Poe
- 2022
Poe Companies
John F. Neace
- 2022
Neace Ventures
Dr. Laurence N. Benz
- 2021
Confluent Health
Tierra Kavanaugh Wayne
- 2021
TKT & Associates, Inc.
Winston R. Pittman Sr.
- 2021
Pitman Enterprises
David A. Jones Jr.
- 2021
Chrysalis
George Garvin Brown
- 2020
Brown-Forman Corporation
Larry W. Myers
- 2020
First Savings Bank and First Savings Financial Group
Olivia F. Kirtley
- 2020
Corporate Director and Consultant
Russell F. Cox
- 2020
Norton Healthcare
Phoebe A. Wood
- 2019
CompaniesWood
C. William Weyland
- 2019
Weyland Ventures
Dr. O Wayne Mortenson
- 2019
Mortenson Dental Partners
Matthew A. Thornton
- 2018
Thorntons Inc.
Kerry M. Stemler
- 2018
KM Stemler Company, Inc.
Sandra Frazier
- 2018
Tandem Public Relations
Victor A. Staffieri
- 2017
LG&E & KU Energy, LLC
Paul Varga
- 2017
Brown-Forman Corporation
Diane B. Medley
- 2017
MCM CPAs & Advisors
Dr. Mark Lynn
- 2016
Dr. Mark Lynn & Associates PLLC
Diane B. Fischer
- 2016
L & D Mail Masters, Inc.
Chuck P. Denny
- 2016
PNC
Cathy Zion
- 2015
Zion Publications LLC
Steven E. Trager
- 2015
Republic Bank
George N. King Sr.
- 2015
Mr. Klean's Janitor & Maintenance Service
Sandra Metts Snowden
- 2014
Metts Company Realtors
Nicholas X. Simon
- 2014
Publishers Printing Company
Robert W. Rounsavall III
- 2014
Dixie Real Properties, LLC
James R. Allen
- 2014
Hillard Lyons
Max L. Shapira
- 2013
Heaven Hill Distilleries, Inc.
Mary S. Moseley
- 2013
The Al J. Schneider Company
Leonard E. "Lenny" Lyles
- 2013
Executive and Developer
John R. Guthrie
- 2013
Guthrie/Mayes Public Relations
William M. Street
- 2012
Brown-Forman Corporation
Norman E. "Ned" Pfau Jr.
- 2012
Geo. Pfau's Sons Co.
C. Edwin Gheens
- 2012
Bradas Candy Company
Colonel Martin "Matt" Winn
- 2011
Churchill Downs Inc.
Susan Stout Tamme
- 2011
Baptist Healthcare System
W. Kent Taylor
- 2011
Texas Roadhouse Inc.
James Breckinridge Speed
- 2011
Businessman and Industrialist
Daniel C. Ulmer Jr.
- 2010
Louisville Bats Baseball
Dee Maynard
- 2010
Keystone Services, Inc.
Joseph H. Huber Jr.
- 2010
Huber Family Farms
John A. "Bud" Hillerich
- 2010
Louisville Slugger
James B. Beam
- 2009
Jim Beam Brands Company
A. R. Sullivan
- 2009
The Sullivan University System
Theodore H. Nixon
- 2009
D.D. Williamson & Co., Inc.
Gouverneur "Bo" H. Nixon
- 2009
D.D. Williamson & Co., Inc.
Lee B. Thomas Jr.
- 2007
Universal Woods, Inc.
William E. Summers III
- 2007
Summers Broadcasting
Gordon B. Davidson
- 2007
Wyatt, Tarrant, & Combs, LLP
Stephen A. Williams
- 2006
Norton Healthcare
Bill Samuels Jr.
- 2006
Maker's Mark Distillery, Inc.
Wade Houston
- 2006
Houston-Johnson, Inc.
Alice K. Houston
- 2006
Houston-Johnson, Inc.
Michael N. Harreld
- 2006
PNC Bank
William H. Beach
- 2005
Beach Mold & Tool, Inc.
Nolen C. Allen
- 2005
Cotton & Allen, P.S.C.
Merwin J. Ray
- 2005
Steel Technologies Inc.
A. Stevens Miles Jr.
- 2005
First Kentucky National Corporation
Juanita Pauline Burks
- 2004
J.P. Construction Co./Tender Loving Care Nurses Registry
C. Edward Glasscock
- 2004
Frost Brown Todd, LLC
Owsley Brown Frazier
- 2004
Brown-Forman Corporation
Bernard M. Trager
- 2003
Republic Bank & Trust Company
David C. Novak
- 2003
Yum! Brands, Inc.
Edward A. Ford III
- 2003
Fetter Printing Company
Ulysses L. Bridgeman Jr.
- 2002
Bridgeman Foods, Inc.
Henry C. Wagner
- 2002
Jewish Hospital HealthCare Services
Al J. Schneider
- 2002
Developer
Douglas F. Cobb
- 2001
Appriss Inc.
Owsley Brown II
- 2001
Brown-Forman Corporation
Christina Lee Brown
- 2001
Louisville Stoneware Company
Warner L. Jones Jr.
- 2001
Hermitage Farm
Samuel G. Swope
- 2000
Sam Swope Auto Group, Inc.
Frank E. Simon
- 2000
Publishers Printing Company
Debbie Scoppechio
- 2000
Creative Alliance, Inc.
John H. Schnatter
- 2000
Papa John's International, Inc.
Robert S. Allison
- 1999
Doe-Anderson Advertising and Public Relations
James H. Thornton
- 1999
Thornton Oil Corporation
Sam R. Rechter
- 1999
Rogers Group Investments, Inc.
James W. Robinson
- 1998
Robinson Nugent, Inc. - Caldwell Tanks, Inc.
Ronald G. Geary
- 1998
ResCare, Inc.
Dwight Gahm
- 1998
Kitchen Kompact, Inc.
Thomas H. Meeker
- 1997
Churchill Downs Incorporated
Samuel H. Klein
- 1997
Bank of Louisville & Trust Company
Charlie W. Johnson
- 1997
Active Transportation Company
Malcolm B. Chancey Jr.
- 1996
Bank One, Kentucky, NA
Charles I. McCarty
- 1996
BATUS
Roy H. Hunt
- 1996
Hunt Tractor, Inc.
Tommie Burns Jr.
- 1995
Burns Enterprises, Inc.
R. Gene Smith
- 1995
R. Gene Smith, Inc.
H. Charles Grawemeyer
- 1995
Reliance-Universal/Plastic Parts Inc.
John Y. Brown Jr.
- 1994
Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation
Wilson W. Wyatt Sr.
- 1994
Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs
T. William Samuels Sr.
- 1994
Maker's Mark Distillery, Inc.
Carl F. Pollard
- 1994
Columbia Healthcare Corporation
W. Bruce Lunsford
- 1993
Vencor, Inc.
Baylor Landrum Jr.
- 1993
Alexander & Alexander of Kentucky
Henry V. Heuser Sr.
- 1993
Frost Brown Todd LLC
Wendell Cherry
- 1992
Humana Inc.
George N. Gill
- 1992
The Courier-Journal
George E. Fischer
- 1992
SerVend International
Mason C. Rudd
- 1991
Rudd Equipment Company
Woodford R. Porter Sr.
- 1991
A. D. Porter & Sons
J. David Grissom
- 1991
Mayfair Capital, Inc.
Henry Vogt
- 1990
Henry Vogt Machine Company
J. D. Nichols
- 1990
NTS Corporation
Frank B. Hower Jr.
- 1990
Liberty National Bank
Thomas C. Simons
- 1989
Capital Holding Corporation
James A. Patterson
- 1989
Pattco, Inc.
David A. Jones Sr.
- 1989
Humana Inc.
Cornelius E. Hubbuch Sr.
- 1988
Hubbuch's of Kentucky
J. Henning Hilliard
- 1988
J.J.B. Hilliard-W.L. Lyons, Inc.
C. Lee Cook
- 1988
C. Lee Cook Manufacturing Company
Owsley Brown
- 1985
Brown-Forman Corporation
Barry Bingham Sr.
- 1985
The Courier-Journal & Louisville Times Co.
Isaac W. Bernheim
- 1985
Bernheim Brothers Distilling Company
A. B. Sawyer
- 1985
Kentucky Diaries, Inc.
James D. Robinson
- 1984
Robinson Nugent, Inc.
George W. Norton Jr.
- 1984
WAVE Inc.
Maurice D. S. Johnson
- 1984
Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Co.
John Harold Hardwick
- 1984
Louisville Trust Company
Mary Helen Byck
- 1983
Byck Brothers & Company
Dann C. Byck
- 1983
Byck Brothers & Company
W. Armin Willig
- 1983
Dixie Beer Distributors, Inc.
Archibald P. Cochran
- 1983
Cochran Foil/Anaconda Aluminum
J. Graham Brown
- 1982
Brown Hotel/Brown Lumber Company
Lee B. Thomas
- 1982
Thomas Industries Inc.
Colonel Harland Sanders
- 1982
Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation