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The '''Alabama Business Hall of Fame''' was established in [[1973]] to honor the contributions of individual business leaders to the state of [[Alabama]]. The hall of fame is maintained by the [[Culverhouse College of Commerce]] Board of Visitors at the [[University of Alabama]]. Bronze plaques of each inductee are installed on the walls of the | The '''Alabama Business Hall of Fame''' was established in [[1973]] to honor the contributions of individual business leaders to the state of [[Alabama]]. The hall of fame is maintained by the [[Culverhouse College of Commerce]] Board of Visitors at the [[University of Alabama]]. | ||
Bronze plaques of each inductee are installed on the walls of the Hall of Fame Room in [[Hewson Hall]]. The installation was moved from its former home in [[Bidgood Hall]]. | |||
==Inductees== | ==Inductees== | ||
===2020s=== | |||
* [[2023]]: [[G. Thomas Hough]] ([[Ernst & Young]]), [[Phillip McWane]] ([[McWane Inc.]]), [[Frank Stitt]] ([[Highlands Bar and Grill]]), [[Michael Thompson]] ([[Thompson Tractor Co.]]), Herman Bulls (Jones Lang LaSalle), Jimmy Rane (Great Southern Wood Preserving) | |||
* [[2022]]: Walter Batson Jr (InterFuze Corp), [[F. Dixon Brooke Jr]] ([[EBSCO]]), [[Ronald Bruno]] ([[Bruno's]]), [[Grayson Hall]] ([[Regions Bank]]), Alexis Herman, [[Michael Mouron]] ([[Capstone Development Corp.]]), William Propst (Qualitest Pharmaceuticals), and C. Kemmons Wilson Jr (Kemmons Wilson Cos.) | |||
* [[2020]]: [[Lonnie Johnson]] (Johnson Research & Development), Bob Baron (Baron Services), Cecil Batchelor (CB&S Bank), Marcus Bendickson (Dynetics, Inc.), [[Jay Grinney]] ([[Encompass Health]]), Joe Ritch ([[Sirote & Permutt]]), and [[Stan Starnes]] ([[ProAssurance]]) | |||
===2010s=== | ===2010s=== | ||
* [[2019]]: [[Charles Collat]] ([[Mayer Electric Supply|Mayer]]), Gary Fayard (Coca-Cola Co.); Joe Forehand (Accenture); [[Marillyn Hewson]] (Lockheed Martin), Lonnie McMillian (ADTRAN / HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology), and [[F. Michael Reilly]] ([[Randall-Reilly]]) | |||
* [[2018]]: Patricia Barnes (Sister Schubert) of Andalusia, [[Jeffrey Bayer]] ([[Bayer Properties]]), [[Don James]] ([[Vulcan Materials]]), [[Charles McCrary]] ([[Alabama Power Co.]]), [[Randy Owen]] ([[Alabama (band)]]), [[James Pursell]] ([[Pursell Technologies]]) and [[John Rhoads]] ([[Ernst & Ernst]]) | |||
* [[2017]]: [[James Andrews]] ([[Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center]]), [[Johnny Johns]] ([[Protective Life Corporation]]) and [[Don Logan]] (TIME, Inc. / [[Birmingham Barons]]) | |||
* [[2016]]: Joel Anderson ([[Books-A-Million]]), [[Paul Bryant Jr]] ([[Greene Group]]/[[Bryant Bank]]), [[Samuel Di Piazza Jr]] (PricewaterhouseCoopers), [[Beverly Phifer]] ([[Phifer Inc.]]), William Stender (CAS Inc.), and [[Robert Witt]] ([[University of Alabama System]]) | |||
* [[2015]]: [[Mike Warren]] ([[Children's of Alabama]]), [[Jimmy Lee III]] ([[Buffalo Rock]]), [[Samuel Ginn]] ([[Samuel Ginn College of Engineering]] at [[Auburn University]], [[Ginn Family Foundation]]), [[William Hulsey]] ([[Arlington Properties]]), [[J. Smith Lanier II]] (J. Smith Lanier & Company of West Point Georgia), [[Marvin Mann]] (Lexmark International), [[Alma Gates Scroggins]] (Turner Broadcasting System, CNN) | * [[2015]]: [[Mike Warren]] ([[Children's of Alabama]]), [[Jimmy Lee III]] ([[Buffalo Rock]]), [[Samuel Ginn]] ([[Samuel Ginn College of Engineering]] at [[Auburn University]], [[Ginn Family Foundation]]), [[William Hulsey]] ([[Arlington Properties]]), [[J. Smith Lanier II]] (J. Smith Lanier & Company of West Point Georgia), [[Marvin Mann]] (Lexmark International), [[Alma Gates Scroggins]] (Turner Broadcasting System, CNN) | ||
* [[2014]]: | * [[2014]]: | ||
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* [[1987]]: [[John Cullmann]] (founder of [[Cullman]]), [[Henry DeBardeleben]] ([[Pratt Coal and Coke Company]]), Thomas Kilby (Kilby Steel Company), [[Frank Samford Jr]] ([[Liberty National Life Insurance Company]]) | * [[1987]]: [[John Cullmann]] (founder of [[Cullman]]), [[Henry DeBardeleben]] ([[Pratt Coal and Coke Company]]), Thomas Kilby (Kilby Steel Company), [[Frank Samford Jr]] ([[Liberty National Life Insurance Company]]) | ||
* [[1986]]: William Bellingrath (Montgomery Coca-Cola Bottling Co.), John Coffee (Cyprus Land Company), [[William Harding]] ([[First National Bank of Birmingham]]), [[Herbert Stockham]] ([[Stockham Valves & Fittings]]) | * [[1986]]: William Bellingrath (Montgomery Coca-Cola Bottling Co.), John Coffee (Cyprus Land Company), [[William Harding]] ([[First National Bank of Birmingham]]), [[Herbert Stockham]] ([[Stockham Valves & Fittings]]) | ||
* [[1985]]: [[Emil Hess]] ([[Parisian]]), George Lanier (West Point Manufacturing), [[Sidney Mitchell]] (General Electric), Barrett Shelton | * [[1985]]: [[Emil Hess]] ([[Parisian]]), George Lanier (West Point Manufacturing), [[Sidney Mitchell]] (General Electric), Barrett Shelton Sr (''Decatur Daily'') | ||
* [[1984]]: [[Hugh Daniel]] ([[Daniel International]]), [[Ben Gilmber]] (AT&T), Edward O'Neal IV (Monsanto), Alfred Delchamps (Delchamps), [[Stephen Moxley]] ([[ACIPCO]]) | * [[1984]]: [[Hugh Daniel]] ([[Daniel International]]), [[Ben Gilmber]] (AT&T), Edward O'Neal IV (Monsanto), Alfred Delchamps (Delchamps), [[Stephen Moxley]] ([[ACIPCO]]) | ||
* [[1983]]: Fox Henderson (Farmers and Merchants National Bank), Carl Jones (G. W. Jones and Sons), John McRae (Merchants National Bank), [[Prime Osborn III]] ([[CSX]]), [[Jack Westervelt Warner]] ([[Gulf States Paper Corporation]]) | * [[1983]]: Fox Henderson (Farmers and Merchants National Bank), Carl Jones (G. W. Jones and Sons), John McRae (Merchants National Bank), [[Prime Osborn III]] ([[CSX]]), [[Jack Westervelt Warner]] ([[Gulf States Paper Corporation]]) | ||
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===1970s=== | ===1970s=== | ||
* [[1979]]: Charles Hamilton (Alabama Pipe Company), [[Lonnie Noojin]] ([[Noojin Supply Company]]), [[John Hand]] ([[First National Bank of Birmingham]]), [[Thomas Russell]] ([[Russell Corporation]]), [[Herbert Westervelt]] ([[Gulf States Paper Company]]) | * [[1979]]: Charles Hamilton (Alabama Pipe Company), [[Lonnie Noojin]] ([[Noojin Supply Company]]), [[John Hand]] ([[First National Bank of Birmingham]]), [[Thomas Russell]] ([[Russell Corporation]]), [[Herbert Westervelt]] ([[Gulf States Paper Company]]) | ||
* [[1978]]: [[Daniel Pratt]] (founder of Prattville), James McGowin (W. T. Smith Lumber Company), [[Paschal Shook]] ([[Shook and Fletcher Supply]]), [[Robert Jemison Jr]] ([[Jemison | * [[1978]]: [[Daniel Pratt]] (founder of Prattville), James McGowin (W. T. Smith Lumber Company), [[Paschal Shook]] ([[Shook and Fletcher Supply]]), [[Robert Jemison Jr]] ([[Jemison Company]]), Ed McMillan (T. R. Miller Mill Company) | ||
* [[1977]]: [[Lee Bidgood]] ([[Culverhouse College of Commerce]]), [[Crawford Johnson]] ([[Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Company]]), [[James Smith]] ([[Avondale Mills]]), Thomas Miller (T. R. Miller Mill Company), Marion Spragins (First National Bank of Huntsville) | * [[1977]]: [[Lee Bidgood]] ([[Culverhouse College of Commerce]]), [[Crawford Johnson]] ([[Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Company]]), [[James Smith]] ([[Avondale Mills]]), Thomas Miller (T. R. Miller Mill Company), Marion Spragins (First National Bank of Huntsville) | ||
* [[1976]]: Harry Ayers (''[[Anniston Star]]''), [[Frank Moody]] ([[First National Bank of Tuscaloosa]]), Joseph Bedsole (Bedsole-Colvin Drug Company), [[John Persons]] ([[American Traders National Bank]]) | * [[1976]]: Harry Ayers (''[[Anniston Star]]''), [[Frank Moody]] ([[First National Bank of Tuscaloosa]]), Joseph Bedsole (Bedsole-Colvin Drug Company), [[John Persons]] ([[American Traders National Bank]]) | ||
* [[1975]]: Charles Henderson (Troy University), [[Frank Rushton]] ([[City Ice and Delivery]] & [[National Coal and Coke Company]]), [[Wallace Malone | * [[1975]]: Charles Henderson (Troy University), [[Frank Rushton]] ([[City Ice and Delivery]] & [[National Coal and Coke Company]]), [[Wallace Malone]] ([[SouthTrust|First National Bank]]), [[Louis Pizitz]] ([[Pizitz]]), Ben May (Gulf Lumber Company), [[Mervyn Sterne]] ([[Sterne, Agee and Leach]]) | ||
* [[1974]]: [[B. B. Comer]] ([[Avondale Mills]]), [[Thomas Martin]] ([[Alabama Power Company]]), Edward Roberts (Waterman Steamship Corporation), [[Benjamin Russell]] ([[Russell Mills]]), [[Mildred Westervelt Warner]] ([[Gulf States Paper Company]]), [[Frank Samford | * [[1974]]: [[B. B. Comer]] ([[Avondale Mills]]), [[Thomas Martin]] ([[Alabama Power Company]]), Edward Roberts (Waterman Steamship Corporation), [[Benjamin Russell]] ([[Russell Mills]]), [[Mildred Westervelt Warner]] ([[Gulf States Paper Company]]), [[Frank Samford Sr]] ([[Liberty National Life Insurance Company]]) | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
* [ | * [https://abhof.culverhouse.ua.edu/ Alabama Business Hall of Fame] at cba.ua.edu | ||
[[Category:Alabama Business Hall of Fame|*]] | [[Category:Alabama Business Hall of Fame|*]] | ||
[[Category:1973 establishments]] | [[Category:1973 establishments]] | ||
[[Category:University of Alabama campus]] | [[Category:University of Alabama campus]] | ||
Latest revision as of 15:45, 7 August 2023
The Alabama Business Hall of Fame was established in 1973 to honor the contributions of individual business leaders to the state of Alabama. The hall of fame is maintained by the Culverhouse College of Commerce Board of Visitors at the University of Alabama.
Bronze plaques of each inductee are installed on the walls of the Hall of Fame Room in Hewson Hall. The installation was moved from its former home in Bidgood Hall.
Inductees
2020s
- 2023: G. Thomas Hough (Ernst & Young), Phillip McWane (McWane Inc.), Frank Stitt (Highlands Bar and Grill), Michael Thompson (Thompson Tractor Co.), Herman Bulls (Jones Lang LaSalle), Jimmy Rane (Great Southern Wood Preserving)
- 2022: Walter Batson Jr (InterFuze Corp), F. Dixon Brooke Jr (EBSCO), Ronald Bruno (Bruno's), Grayson Hall (Regions Bank), Alexis Herman, Michael Mouron (Capstone Development Corp.), William Propst (Qualitest Pharmaceuticals), and C. Kemmons Wilson Jr (Kemmons Wilson Cos.)
- 2020: Lonnie Johnson (Johnson Research & Development), Bob Baron (Baron Services), Cecil Batchelor (CB&S Bank), Marcus Bendickson (Dynetics, Inc.), Jay Grinney (Encompass Health), Joe Ritch (Sirote & Permutt), and Stan Starnes (ProAssurance)
2010s
- 2019: Charles Collat (Mayer), Gary Fayard (Coca-Cola Co.); Joe Forehand (Accenture); Marillyn Hewson (Lockheed Martin), Lonnie McMillian (ADTRAN / HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology), and F. Michael Reilly (Randall-Reilly)
- 2018: Patricia Barnes (Sister Schubert) of Andalusia, Jeffrey Bayer (Bayer Properties), Don James (Vulcan Materials), Charles McCrary (Alabama Power Co.), Randy Owen (Alabama (band)), James Pursell (Pursell Technologies) and John Rhoads (Ernst & Ernst)
- 2017: James Andrews (Andrews Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center), Johnny Johns (Protective Life Corporation) and Don Logan (TIME, Inc. / Birmingham Barons)
- 2016: Joel Anderson (Books-A-Million), Paul Bryant Jr (Greene Group/Bryant Bank), Samuel Di Piazza Jr (PricewaterhouseCoopers), Beverly Phifer (Phifer Inc.), William Stender (CAS Inc.), and Robert Witt (University of Alabama System)
- 2015: Mike Warren (Children's of Alabama), Jimmy Lee III (Buffalo Rock), Samuel Ginn (Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University, Ginn Family Foundation), William Hulsey (Arlington Properties), J. Smith Lanier II (J. Smith Lanier & Company of West Point Georgia), Marvin Mann (Lexmark International), Alma Gates Scroggins (Turner Broadcasting System, CNN)
- 2014:
- 2013: Angus Cooper II and David Cooper (Cooper/T. Smith Corp. of Mobile), Gene Davenport (Russell Lands), Peter Lowe (G. W. Jones & Sons Real Estate of Huntsville), J. Barry Mason (Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Alabama)
- 2012: Richard Anthony (Synovus), John Caddell (Caddell Construction Company of Montgomery), Mike Goodrich (BE&K), James Holbrook Jr (Sterne Agee), Grace Pilot (Pilot Catastrophe Services of Mobile)
- 2011: Larry Drummond (Drummond Company), John McMahon Jr (Ligon Industries), Drayton Nabers Jr (Protective Life Corporation), Ted Henry (Henry Brick Co.), Edward Spencer Jr (AuburnBank)
- 2010: Fred Hahn (Tuscaloosa Warehouse and IWS Trucking), D. Paul Jones Jr (Compass Bank), Sidney McDonald (Deltacom and Intergraph), David Dunlap (Alabama Dry Docks and Shipbuilding Co.)
2000s
- 2009: Mike Jenkins IV (Jenkins Brick), Tom Jernigan (Marathon Corporation), Carl Jones (Regions Bank), John Thomas (Aliant Bank)
- 2008: Derrill Crowe (ProAssurance), Nimrod Frazer (Enstar Group), James Hudson Jr (Hudson-Alpha Institute), Ben Russell (Russell Lands), James T. Stephens (EBSCO)
- 2007: Charles Adair (Woodward Iron Company), Sam Faucett III (Regions Bank), Elmer Harris (Alabama Power Company); Raymond Jones (G. W. Jones & Sons); Billy Williamson Jr (Whetstone Capital Investments)
- 2006: Bill Cabaniss (Precision Grinding), Paul Flowers (Flowers Hospital), Mayer Mitchell (Mitchell Company), Gene Moor Jr (AmSouth Bank), Harvey Robbins (Applied Plastics, Inc.)
- 2005: William Barrett (Northington Laundry), Stanley Mackin (Regions Bank), Caldwell Marks (Motion Industries), Mark Smith (ADTRAN), John Williamson (Vantage Associates)
- 2004: James Boone Jr (Boone Newspapers), Donald Brabston (Ernst & Young), Willliam Halsey Jr (Halsey Grocery Company), Bernard Monaghan, (Vulcan Materials), John Watson (Smith's Inc.)
- 2003: Frank Bromberg Jr (Bromberg's), Garry Drummond (Drummond Company), Roy Nichols (Nichols Research), Leroy McAbee (McAbee and Company), Pettus Randall III (Randall Publishing)
- 2002: Charles Anderson (Books-A-Million), Mack Dove (AAA Cooper), Miller Gorrie (Brasfield & Gorrie), Ben Stimpson (Gulf Lumber Company), Lee Styslinger Jr, (Altec, Inc.)
- 2001: R.C. Cobb Jr (Cobb Theaters), Edward Friend Jr (Sirote and Permutt), James Head (Library Bureau), Wallace Malone Jr (SouthTrust Bank), Edward Robbins (Robbins Industries), Robert Weil (Weil Brothers Cotton)
- 2000: Henry Goodrich (BE&K and SONAT), Bill Harbert (Bill Harbert Construction), Olin King, (Space Craft, Inc.), Harry Pritchett (Pritchett-Moore, Inc.), Fred Sington (Fred Sington Sporting Goods), Ernest Williams (First National Bank of Tuscaloosa)
1990s
- 1999: Young Boozer (Cotton States Life Insurance Company and Colonial Bank), James Hinton (Zeigler Meats), Bill Ireland (Vulcan Materials), William Rushton III (Protective Life Insurance Company), Alfred Saliba (Alfred Saliba Corporation)
- 1998: James Lee Jr (Buffalo Rock Company), John Oliver Jr (First National Bank of Jasper), Arthur Outlaw (Morrison's Cafeteria), Elton B. Stephens (EBSCO), Adolph Weil Jr (Weil Brothers Cotton)
- 1997: Wallace Bunn (BellSouth), Ehney Camp Jr (Sterne, Agee and Leach), James Harrison Jr (Harco Drugs), Ray Loper (W.P. Brown & Son), Earl McGowin (W. T. Smith Lumber Company)
- 1996: Marshall Durbin (Marshall Durbin Company), Frank Mason (Mason Corporation), William Mitchell (First National Bank of Florence), H. Taylor Morrissette (Colonial Sugars), Goodwin Myrick (ALFA)
- 1995: Red Dove (AAA Cooper), George LeMaistre (City National Bank of Tuscaloosa), John Miller Jr, (T. R. Miller Mill Company), William Spencer III (Motion Industries and BioCryst), Louis Willie (Booker T. Washington Insurance Company)
- 1994: Joseph Farley (Alabama Power), Mary Hardin (Piggly Wiggly), Billy Harrigan Jr (Scotch Lumber Company), Ed Lowder (ALFA), Lewis Manderson (Creative Displays), M. Lewis Salmon (Watts and Salmon)
- 1993: Sloan Bashinsky (Golden Flake), William H. Blount (Vulcan Materials), Harry Brock Jr (Compass Bank), Emory Cunningham (Southern Progress), John Harbert (Harbert Construction), Thomas Rast (Johnson, Rast & Hays)
- 1992: Aaron Aronov (Aronov Realty Company), Angelo Bruno (Bruno's), Samuel Garner (Culverhouse College of Commerce), Frank Moody (First National Bank of Tuscaloosa), Hall Thompson (Thompson Tractor Company)
- 1991: Hugh Culverhouse (Culverhouse & Botts), Gene Gwaltney (Russell Corporation), J. Reese Phifer (Phifer Wire Products), William Sellers (Baggett Transportation Company)
- 1990: H. E. Drummond (Drummond Corporation), William Hulsey (Garber, Cook & Hulsey), John Jemison Jr (Jemison Investment Company), Samuel Noble (Woodstock Iron Company)
1980s
- 1989: Joe Bruno (Bruno's), William McWane (McWane, Inc.), Frank Plummer (First Alabama Bank), Robert Radcliff Jr (Southern Industries)
- 1988: Winton Blount Jr (Blount, Inc.), Foots Clements (Dr Pepper Company), Daniel Haughton (Lockheed Aircraft Corporation), William Jelks (Governor of Alabama)
- 1987: John Cullmann (founder of Cullman), Henry DeBardeleben (Pratt Coal and Coke Company), Thomas Kilby (Kilby Steel Company), Frank Samford Jr (Liberty National Life Insurance Company)
- 1986: William Bellingrath (Montgomery Coca-Cola Bottling Co.), John Coffee (Cyprus Land Company), William Harding (First National Bank of Birmingham), Herbert Stockham (Stockham Valves & Fittings)
- 1985: Emil Hess (Parisian), George Lanier (West Point Manufacturing), Sidney Mitchell (General Electric), Barrett Shelton Sr (Decatur Daily)
- 1984: Hugh Daniel (Daniel International), Ben Gilmber (AT&T), Edward O'Neal IV (Monsanto), Alfred Delchamps (Delchamps), Stephen Moxley (ACIPCO)
- 1983: Fox Henderson (Farmers and Merchants National Bank), Carl Jones (G. W. Jones and Sons), John McRae (Merchants National Bank), Prime Osborn III (CSX), Jack Westervelt Warner (Gulf States Paper Corporation)
- 1982: Glen Brock (Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad), Tine Davis (Winn-Dixie), Arthur Lee (Lee Brothers Foundry), John McKinley (Texaco), Thomas Moorer (U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff), George Outlaw (Morrison's Cafeteria)
- 1981: James Comer (Avondale Mills), A. G. Gaston (Booker T. Washington Insurance Company), Robert Jemison Jr (Alabama State Senate), Isadore Weil (Weil Brothers Cotton)
- 1980: John Barnett (Monroe County Bank), George Washington Carver (Tuskegee Institute), George Crawford (Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company), William Rushton (Protective Life Insurance Company), Frank Spain (Liberty National Life Insurance Company)
1970s
- 1979: Charles Hamilton (Alabama Pipe Company), Lonnie Noojin (Noojin Supply Company), John Hand (First National Bank of Birmingham), Thomas Russell (Russell Corporation), Herbert Westervelt (Gulf States Paper Company)
- 1978: Daniel Pratt (founder of Prattville), James McGowin (W. T. Smith Lumber Company), Paschal Shook (Shook and Fletcher Supply), Robert Jemison Jr (Jemison Company), Ed McMillan (T. R. Miller Mill Company)
- 1977: Lee Bidgood (Culverhouse College of Commerce), Crawford Johnson (Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Company), James Smith (Avondale Mills), Thomas Miller (T. R. Miller Mill Company), Marion Spragins (First National Bank of Huntsville)
- 1976: Harry Ayers (Anniston Star), Frank Moody (First National Bank of Tuscaloosa), Joseph Bedsole (Bedsole-Colvin Drug Company), John Persons (American Traders National Bank)
- 1975: Charles Henderson (Troy University), Frank Rushton (City Ice and Delivery & National Coal and Coke Company), Wallace Malone (First National Bank), Louis Pizitz (Pizitz), Ben May (Gulf Lumber Company), Mervyn Sterne (Sterne, Agee and Leach)
- 1974: B. B. Comer (Avondale Mills), Thomas Martin (Alabama Power Company), Edward Roberts (Waterman Steamship Corporation), Benjamin Russell (Russell Mills), Mildred Westervelt Warner (Gulf States Paper Company), Frank Samford Sr (Liberty National Life Insurance Company)
References
- Cooper, Lauren B. (October 14, 2009) "Alabama Business Hall of Fame to induct five leaders." Birmingham Business Journal
External links
- Alabama Business Hall of Fame at cba.ua.edu