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    Washington Business Hall of Fame Chairs and Honorees

    Recognizing Greatness of the Past. Inspiring Greatness in the Future.

    Founded in 1988, the Washington Business Hall of Fame inducts individuals each year for the tremendous impact they have made, through business excellence, on the growth and character of the Greater Washington Region.

    The Washington Business Hall of Fame is co-sponsored by The Greater Washington Board of Trade, Junior Achievement and Washingtonian magazine.

    Chairs
    2007 Gary H. Tabach
    Managing Partner
    Deloitte
    2006 Edward L. Cohen
    Principal
    Lerner Enterprises
    2005 Deborah J. Kissare
    Managing Partner,
    Mid-Atlantic Area

    Ernst & Young, LLP
    2004 C.E. Andrews
    Executive Vice President,
    Accounting & Risk Management

    Sallie Mae
    2003 Fernando Murias
    Managing Partner
    PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP
    2002 Mark Bisnow
    Founder
    Bisnow on Business
    2001 John A. Emens
    Chairman, Greater Washington Region
    Allfirst Bank
    2000 James F. Lafond
    Managing Partner
    PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
    1999 John M. Derrick, Jr.
    Chairman, President and CEO
    Pepco
    1998 Anthony J. Buzzelli
    Managing Partner
    Deloitte & Touche LLP
    1997 George M. Ferris, Jr.
    Chairman and CEO
    Ferris Baker Watts Inc.
    1996 Louise Lynch
    Chair and CEO
    Courtesy Associates, Inc.
    1995 William M. Freeman
    President and CEO
    Bell Atlantic of Washington, DC
    1994 Henry K. Yaggi III
    President and General Manager
    W*USA-TV
    1993 Edward F. Mitchell
    Chairman and CEO
    Pepco
    1992 Norman R. Augustine
    Chairman and CEO
    Martin Marietta Corporation
    1991 Carmen E. Turner
    Under Secretary
    The Smithsonian Institution
    1990 Delano E. Lewis
    President and CEO
    The C&P Telephone Company
    1989 Richard E. Marriott
    Vice Chairman
    Marriott Corporation
    1988 Luther H. Hodges
    Chairman and CEO
    National Bank of Washington

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    Hall of Fame Honorees 1988-2007

    2007
    Sidney O. Dewberry
    Chairman
    Dewberry

    Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
    Senior Managing Director
    Lazard Frères & Co. LLC

    John P. McDaniel
    Chief Exexutive Officer
    MedStar Health, Inc.

    David Reznick
    Chairman
    Reznick Group

    David M. Rubenstein
    Co-Founder and Managing Director
    The Carlyle Group

    2006
    John E. "Chip" Akridge, III
    Chairman
    Akridge

    Alexandria Armstrong
    Chairman
    Armstrong, Fleming, & Moore, Inc.

    Jeong H. Kim, Ph.D.
    President
    Lucent Technologies,
    Bell Labs

    B. Francis Saul II
    Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
    Chevy Chase Bank

    Kenneth R. Sparks
    Former Executive Vice President
    Federal City Council

    2005
    Raul Fernandez
    Chief Executive Officer
    Object Video


    Fred Malek
    Founder & Chairman
    Thayer Capital Partners

    Herbert S. Millder
    Chairman
    Western Development Corporation

    Morgan O'Brien
    Founder
    Nextel Communications

    John T. Schwieters
    Vice Chairman
    Perseus L.L.C.

    2004
    Steve Case
    Former Chairman and CEO
    America Online Inc., and
    AOL Time Warner

    John M. Derrick Jr.
    Retired Chairman
    PEPCO Holdings, Inc.

    P. Wesley Foster Jr.
    Chairman & CEO
    Long & Foster Companies, Inc.

    Marie C. Johns
    Former President and CEO
    Verizon - Washington, DC

    Robert P. Pincus
    Chairman
    Milestone Merchant Partners

    2003
    Robert L. Johnson
    Chairman and CEO
    BET Holdings, Inc.

    Austin H. Kiplinger
    Chairman
    Kiplinger Washington Editors



    Theodore N. Lerner
    Founding Partner
    Lerner Enterprises

    Edward F. Mitchell
    Former Chairman and CEO
    PEPCO



    John R. Tydings
    Former President
    Greater Washington Board of Trade

    2002
    Joe L. Allbritton
    Former Chairman and CEO
    Riggs National Bank and WJLA-TV

    A. James Clark
    CEO
    Clark Enterprises
    Chairman, Executive Committee
    Clark Construction

    J. Willard Marriott, Jr.
    Chairman and CEO
    Marriott International

    Esther T. Smith
    Founding Editor
    Washington Business Journal
    Founder
    Washington Technology

    Jack Valenti
    Chairman and CEO
    Motion Picture Association of America

    2001
    Roger R. Blunt
    Chairman and CEO
    Blunt Enterprises


    John J. Curley
    Former Chairman, President and CEO
    Gannett Company Inc.

    John T. Hazel, Jr.
    Attorney at Law
    Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas

    Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
    Founder
    National Museum of Women in the Arts

    Mario Morino
    Chairman
    Morino Institute

    2000
    Bill Harris
    President
    Greater Washington Region
    Crestar Bank

    James V. Kimsey
    Founding CEO & Chairman Emeritus
    America Online, Inc.


    Louise Lynch
    Chairman and CEO Emeritus
    Courtesy Associates

    Abe Pollin
    Chairman of the Board and CEO
    Washington Sports and Entertainment

    Irwin Zazulia
    Retired President and CEO
    Hecht's

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    1999
    Irving Goldstein
    Retired Director General & CEO
    Intelsat
    Retired Chairman & CEO
    Comsat

    William S. Harps
    Retired President and CEO
    Harps & Harps, Inc.

    Clifford M. Kendall
    Retired Chairman & CEO
    Computer Data Systems, Inc.



    Catherine Filene Shouse
    Founder
    Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

    Robert Zalokar
    Retired Chairman & CEO
    First Virginia Banks, Inc.

    1998
    Sister M. Majella Berg
    Chancellor
    Marymount University



    William Calomiris
    President
    Calomiris Investment Company

    Dr. Coleman Raphael
    Dean Emeritus
    George Mason University
    Founder, CEO & Chairman
    Atlantic Research Corporation

    John D. Stewart
    Co-Founder
    The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.


    Carmen E. Turner
    General Manager
    Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
    Undersecretary
    Smithsonian Institute

    1997
    Norman R. Augustine
    Chairman
    Lockheed Martin

    Dan R. Bannister
    Chairman
    DynCorp

    Oliver T. Carr, Jr.
    Chairman
    CarrAmerica Realty Corporation

    Stephen D. Harlan
    Chairman
    H.G. Smithy Company


    Ivan Selin
    Founder
    American Management Systems

    1996
    Morris Cafritz
    Founder
    The Cafritz Company

    Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell
    Founder
    WETA

    Nehemiah Meyer Cohen
    Co-Founder
    Giant Food

    Israel Cohen
    Former President & Chairman of the Board
    Giant Food

    Edwin I. Colodny
    Retired Chairman of the Board
    USAir

    Dr. George W. Johnson
    President Emeritus
    George Mason University

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    1995
    Katharine Graham
    Chairman of the Executive Committee
    The Washington Post Company

    R. Robert Linowes
    Senior Counsel
    Linowes and Blocher

    Walter F. McArdle
    Founder
    McArdle Printing Company Inc.

    Joseph H. Riley
    Retired Chairman of the Board & President
    NS&T Bank


    The Honorable Walter E. Washington
    Former Mayor of Washington, DC

    1994
    James G. Banks
    Former Executive Vice President
    DC Association of Realtors


    Edwin T. Holland
    Founder
    First Virginia Banks, Inc.

    David O. Maxwell
    Former Chairman of the Board
    Fannie Mae

    Alan H. Neuharth
    Former Chairman of the Board
    Gannett Company
    Founder
    USA Today

    Jean Head Sisco
    Former Vice President
    Woodward Lothrop

    1993
    Christian Heurich, Sr.
    Founder
    The Christian Heurich Brewing Company

    Foster Shannon
    Former President & CEO
    Shannon and Luchs


    W. Reid Thompson
    Former Chairman of the Board, CEO & President
    Pepco

    Julia M. Walsh
    Former Managing Director
    Tucker Anthony
    CEO
    Julia M. Walsh and Sons

    Earle C. Williams
    Former President, CEO & Member of the Board
    BDM International Incorporated

    1992
    Earle Palmer Brown
    Founder
    Earle Palmer Brown Companies


    John Lankford
    Architect
    Washington's First African American Architect

    William G. McGowan
    Founder
    MCI Communications Corporation


    Thornton W. Owen
    Former Chairman of the Board & CEO
    Perpetual Savings & Loan

    1991
    Robert C. Baker
    Former Chairman & CEO
    American Security Bank

    Donald S. Bittinger
    Former Chairman of the Board
    Washington Gas

    Willard M. Kiplinger
    Founder
    The Kiplinger Washington Letter


    Jane E. Marilley
    Founder
    Courtesy Associates, Inc.

    1990
    Dr. Lloyd H. Elliott
    Immediate Past President
    George Washington University

    Jesse H. Mitchell
    Founder
    Industrial Bank of Washington

    Benjamin T. Rome
    Chairman of the Board Emeritus
    George Hyman Construction Company

    Edward Bennett Williams
    Founder
    Williams & Connolly

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    1989
    George M. Ferris, Sr.
    Chairman of the Board
    Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc.


    Theodore R. Hagans, Jr.
    Founder
    Fort Lincoln Town Corporation

    Sidney L. Hechinger
    Founder
    Hechinger Company

    Thomas G. Pownall
    Chairman of the Executive Committee
    Martin Marietta Corporation

    Bernard Francis Saul
    Founder
    B.F. Saul Company

    1988
    Robert Fleming
    Former Chairman of the Board & CEO
    Riggs National Bank

    David Lloyd Kreeger
    Honorary Chairman of the Board
    GEICO

    J. Willard Marriott
    Founder
    Marriott Corporation

    Eugene Meyer
    Former Chairman of the Board, President & Publisher
    The Washington Post Company

    Flaxie M. Pinkett
    President
    John R. Pinkett, Inc.

    Charles E. Smith
    Founder
    The Charles E. Smith Companies

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