20th Anniversary Washington Business Hall of Fame
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. A listing by year laureate year is also available.

Hall of Fame Honorees 1988-2007, By Last Name

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

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

Alexandra Armstrong (2006)
Chairman
Armstrong, Fleming, & Moore, Inc.

Norman R. Augustine (1997)
Chairman
Lockheed Martin

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

Dan R. Bannister (1997)
Chairman
DynCorp

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

Sister M. Majella Berg (1998)
Chancellor
Marymount University

Donald S. Bittinger (1991)
Former Chairman of the Board
Washington Gas

Roger R. Blunt (2001)
Chairman and CEO
Blunt Enterprises

Earle Palmer Brown (1992)
Founder
Earle Palmer Brown Companies

Morris Cafritz (1996)
Founder
The Cafritz Company

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

William Calomiris (1998)
President
Calomiris Investment Company

Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell (1996)
Founder
WETA

Oliver T. Carr, Jr. (1997)
Chairman
CarrAmerica Realty Corporation

A. James Clark (2002)
CEO
Clark Enterprises
Chairman, Executive Committee
Clark Construction

Israel Cohen (1996)
Former President & Chairman of the Board
Giant Food

Nehemiah Meyer Cohen (1996)
Co-Founder
Giant Food

Edwin I. Colodny (1996)
Retired Chairman of the Board
USAir

John J. Curley (2001)
Former Chairman, President and CEO
Gannett Company Inc.

John M. Derrick Jr. (2004)
Retired Chairman
PEPCO Holdings, Inc.

Sidney O. Dewberry (2007)
Chairman
Dewberry

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

Raul Fernandez (2005)
Chief Executive Officer
Object Video

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

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

P. Wesley Foster Jr. (2004)
Chairman & CEO
Long & Foster Companies, Inc.

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

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

Theodore R. Hagans, Jr. (1989)
Founder
Fort Lincoln Town Corporation

Stephen D. Harlan (1997)
Chairman
H.G. Smithy Company

William Harris (2000)
President
Greater Washington Region
Crestar Bank

John T. Hazel, Jr. (2001)
Attorney at Law
Reed Smith Hazel & Thomas

Sidney L. Hechinger (1989)
Founder
Hechinger Company

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

Wilhelmina Cole Holladay (2001)
Founder
National Museum of Women in the Arts

Edwin T. Holland (1994)
Founder
First Virginia Banks, Inc.

Marie C. Johns (2004)
Former President and CEO
Verizon - Washington, DC

Dr. George W. Johnson (1996)
President Emeritus
George Mason University

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

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. (2007)
Senior Managing Director
Lazard Frères & Co. LLC

Clifford M. Kendall (1999)
Retired Chairman & CEO
Computer Data Systems, Inc.

Jeong H. Kim, Ph.D. (2006)
President
Lucent Technologies,
Bell Labs

James V. Kimsey (2000)
Founding CEO & Chairman Emeritus
America Online, Inc.

Austin H. Kiplinger (2003)
Chairman

Kiplinger Washington Editors
Willard M. Kiplinger (1991)
Founder
The Kiplinger Washington Letter

David Lloyd Kreeger (1988)
Honorary Chairman of the Board
GEICO

John Lankford (1992)
Architect
Washington's First African American Architect

Theodore N. Lerner (2003)
Founding Partner
Lerner Enterprises

R. Robert Linowes (1995)
Senior Counsel
Linowes and Blocher

Louise Lynch (2000)
Chairman and CEO Emeritus
Courtesy Associates

Fred Malek (2005)
Founder & Chairman
Thayer Capital Partners

Jane E. Marilley (1991)
Founder
Courtesy Associates, Inc.

J. Willard Marriott (1988)
Founder
Marriott Corporation

J. Willard Marriott, Jr. (2002)
Chairman and CEO
Marriott International

David O. Maxwell (1994)
Former Chairman of the Board
Fannie Mae

Walter F. McArdle (1995)
Founder
McArdle Printing Company Inc.

John P. McDaniel (2007)
Chief Exexutive Officer
MedStar Health, Inc.

William G. McGowan (1992)
Founder
MCI Communications Corporation

Eugene Meyer (1988)
Former Chairman of the Board, President & Publisher
The Washington Post Company

Herbert S. Miller (2005)
Chairman
Western Development Corporation

Edward F. Mitchell (2003)
Former Chairman and CEO
PEPCO

Jesse H. Mitchell (1990)
Founder
Industrial Bank of Washington

Mario Morino (2001)
Chairman
Morino Institute

Allen H. Neuharth (1994)
Former Chairman of the Board
Gannett Company
Founder
USA Today

Morgan O'Brien (2005)
Founder
Nextel Communications

Thornton W. Owen (1992)
Former Chairman of the Board & CEO
Perpetual Savings & Loan

Robert P. Pincus (2004)
Chairman
Milestone Merchant Partners

Flaxie M. Pinkett (1988)
President
John R. Pinkett, Inc.

Abe Pollin (2000)
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Washington Sports and Entertainment

Thomas G. Pownall (1989)
Chairman of the Executive Committee
Martin Marietta Corporation

Dr. Coleman Raphael (1998)
Dean Emeritus
George Mason University
Founder, CEO & Chairman
Atlantic Research Corporation

David Reznick (2007)
Chairman
Reznick Group

Joseph H. Riley (1995)
Retired Chairman of the Board & President
NS&T Bank

Benjamin T. Rome (1990)
Chairman of the Board Emeritus
George Hyman Construction Company

David M. Rubenstein (2007)
Co-Founder and Managing Director
The Carlyle Group

John T. Schwieters (2005)
Vice Chairman
Perseus L.L.C.

Bernard Francis Saul (1989)
Founder
B.F. Saul Company

B. Francis Saul II (2006)
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Chevy Chase Bank

Ivan Selin (1997)
Founder
American Management Systems

Foster Shannon (1993)
Former President & CEO
Shannon and Luchs

Catherine Filene Shouse (1999)
Founder
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts

Jean Head Sisco (1994)
Former Vice President
Woodward Lothrop

Charles E. Smith (1988)
Founder
The Charles E. Smith Companies

Ester T. Smith (2002)
Founding Editor
Washington Business Journal
Founder
Washington Technology

Kenneth R. Sparks (2006)
Former Executive Vice President
Federal City Council

John D. Stewart (1998)
Co-Founder
The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.

W. Reid Thompson (1993)
Former Chairman of the Board, CEO & President
Pepco

Carmen E. Turner (1998)
General Manager
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Undersecretary
Smithsonian Institute

John R. Tydings (2003)
Former President
Greater Washington Board of Trade

Jack Valenti (2002)
Chairman and CEO
Motion Picture Association of America

Julia M. Walsh (1993)
Former Managing Director
Tucker Anthony
CEO
Julia M. Walsh and Sons

The Honorable Walter E. Washington (1995)
Former Mayor of Washington, DC

Earle C. Williams (1993)
Former President, CEO & Member of the Board
BDM International Incorporated

Edward Bennett Williams (1990)
Founder
Williams & Connolly

Robert Zalokar (1999)
Retired Chairman & CEO
First Virginia Banks, Inc.

Irwin Zazulia (2000)
Retired President and CEO
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