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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 hall of fame room in [[Bidgood Hall]].

==Inductees==
===2020s===
* [[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 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)
* [[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]] ([[AT&T South|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 (Senator)|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]] ([[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 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==
* [http://www.cba.ua.edu/alumni/hof Alabama Business Hall of Fame] at cba.ua.edu

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