Founded in 1988 by Junior Achievement of the National Capital Area, The Greater Washington Board of Trade, and The Washingtonian, 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.

Click on the name of any Laureate to learn more about their accomplishments. An alphabetical listing by last name is also available.

Hall of Fame Honorees 1988-2009, By Year

2009
David G. Bradley
Chairman
Atlantic Media Company

Margery Kraus
President & CEO
APCO Worldwide

Barbara J. Krumsiek
President & CEO
Calvert

Dr. Ralph W. Shrader
Chairman & CEO
Booz Allen Hamilton

J. Knox Singleton
President & CEO
Inova Health System
2008
Richard D. Fairbank
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Capital One

Donald E. Graham
Chairman and CEO
The Washington Post Company

Mandell J. Ourisman
Chairman of the Board
Ourisman Automotive Enterprises

Milton V. Peterson
Founder
The Peterson Companies

Linda D. Rabbitt
Chairman & CEO
rand* construction corporation
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

Alexandra 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. Miller
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
William 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

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

Israel Cohen
Former President & Chairman of the Board
Giant Food

Nehemiah Meyer Cohen
Co-Founder
Giant Food

Edwin I. Colodny
Retired Chairman of the Board
USAir

Dr. George W. Johnson
President Emeritus
George Mason University

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

Allen 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

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