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Tom Landry* |
1978 |
Coach, Dallas Cowboys; Super Bowl VI and XII Championship Teams;
NFL Hall of Fame; Fellowship of Christian Athletes Leader; Horatio Alger Award |
Bill Hunter |
1979 |
President, Dallas School Board; Community Leader; Attorney |
H. Ross Perot |
1980 |
Founder, Electronic Data Systems; United States Presidential Candidate; Dallas’ Perot Museum of Nature and Science; Horatio Alger Award; Linz Award |
John Criswell |
1981 |
News Anchor, WFAA Television; "Wednesday's Child" Leader |
Ben Lipshy* |
1982 |
Founder/President, Zales Corporation; Chief Executive, University Medical Center, Inc.; Dallas Civic and Charitable Leader
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Buddy Minyard* |
1983 |
Chairman/CEO, Minyard Food Stores; President, Dallas Retail Grocers; Leader, Dallas’ Scottish Rite Masonic Order; Community and Charitable Leader |
Harold Schackman* |
1985 |
Zales Oak Cliff Manager; Head of Zales’ Employees Retirement Program; “Tireless” Community Worker – known as “Mr. Oak Cliff”; Oak Cliff Lion |
Dr. J.L. LaManna |
1990 |
Chairman, Southwest Osteopathic Physicians, Inc.; Providing Millions of Dollars to some 150 non-profits in Oak Cliff; Dallas Baptist University Good Samaritan Award |
Lillian Bradshaw* |
1991 |
Director, Dallas Public Library; President, American and Texas Library Associations; First Married and Female Dallas Library Director |
Dr. Charles Baxter* |
1992 |
Chairman, Parkland Hospital Burn Center; Founder, Skin-Graft Center at Parkland; JFK Parkland Emergency Room Notable, November 22,1963 |
Roger Staubach |
1993 |
Former Dallas Cowboy; MVP, Super Bowl VI; NFL Hall of Fame; 1963 Heisman Trophy at Navy; Developer, Community Leader; Horatio Alger Award |
Birdie Jackson* |
1994 |
Foster Care Mother; Well known Community Worker; Birdie Jackson Foundation |
Dan Eddy* |
1994 |
Dallas Salvation Army Fund Raiser; Oak Cliff Justice of the Peace; Oak Cliff Lion |
Dr. Charles Sprague* |
1995 |
Chairman/CEO, Southwestern Medical Foundation; Considered “Legend in Medicine”; three Endowment Chairs established in his Honor; Dallas Civic Leader |
Rodger Meier* |
1996 |
Chairman/CEO, Rodger Meier Cadillac; Civic Leader; Chair, Dallas Chamber; 1979 Dallas “Father of the Year”; Linz Award |
Ebby Halliday Acers* |
1997 |
Ebby Halliday Real Estate Founder; Philanthropic Leader; Texas Women’s Hall of Fame; President, North Dallas Chamber; Horatio Alger Award; Linz Award |
Raymond Nasher* |
1998 |
Philanthropist; Developer of NorthPark Center; World Renowned Art Collector; Dallas’ Nasher Sculpture Center; Linz Award |
Robert S. Folsom |
1999 |
Mayor of Dallas; President, Dallas School Board; Chair, Methodist Hospital Board; Developer; Dallas Civic Leader; Only Four Sport Letterman in SMU History |
Nancy Brinker |
2000 |
Founder, Susan G. Komen Foundation; United States Ambassador to Hungary |
Ruth Sharp Altshuler |
2001 |
National, Texas, and Dallas Philanthropic Leader; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Awarded by Smithsonian Institute; Linz Award |
Suzanne Duvall |
2001 |
Nationally Recognized Master Mediator; First Recipient, American Arbitration’s Annual Steve Brutche Award; First Recipient, Tom Eisner Mediator of the Year |
Martha Gilmore* |
2001 |
Minister; Educator; Pioneer for Women’s Ministerial Rights; Served on Children’s, Inc., Girl’s Foundation of Dallas and Crossroads Community Services Boards |
Canon Stephen Swann |
2001 |
Founder, Episcopal School of Dallas; Community Leader; Stephen B. Swann Athletic Center dedicated to Physical Fitness, one of Finest in United States |
Liz Minyard |
2002 |
President, Minyard Food Stores; Civic Leader; Chair, Dallas Chamber; Chair, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas; Helped Found North Texas Food Bank |
J. McDonald Williams |
2003 |
President and CEO, Trammel Crow Companies; Developer; Dallas Community Leader; Board Member, A. H. Belo Corporation; Linz Award |
Chris Victor Semos* |
2004 |
Texas State Representative; Dallas County Commissioner; Civic Leader; Chair, Texas Sesquicentennial Celebration; Owner, Torch Restaurant; Oak Cliff Lion |
Lamar Hunt* |
2005 |
Founder, American Football League, MLS, NASL and WCT; Owner, Kansas City Chiefs – Super Bowl IV Champions; Named Super Bowl; NFL Hall of Fame |
Paul M. Bass, Jr.* |
2006 |
Investment Banker; Medical Advocate; Parkland Hospital Chair; Linz Award |
Dr. Wright L. Lassiter, Jr. |
2007 |
Chancellor, Dallas County Community College District; Former President, Dallas’ Bishop College; Chair, Dallas’ African American Museum Board |
Peter Pauls Stewart |
2008 |
Founder, Dallas’ Thanks Giving Square; Leader in Dallas Multi-Religion Community; Dallas Civic Leader; Linz Award |
T. Boone Pickens |
2009 |
Oil and Energy Entrepreneur; Civic Philanthropist – Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Meals on Wheels, Oklahoma State University; Horatio Alger Award |
Lindalyn B. Adams |
2010 |
Leader behind Dallas’ Sixth Floor Museum, Old Red Courthouse Restoration, Dallas County Historical Landmark Program and Old City Park; Linz Award |
Ruben Esquivel |
2011 |
Chair, State Fair of Texas, Parkland Hospital Board of Managers, Dallas County Historical Foundation, Dallas Opera, YMCA of Metro Dallas, Oak Cliff Lion |
Michael A. Jenkins |
2012 |
President/Managing Director, Dallas Summer Musicals; President/Founder, LARC Entertainment Group; Co-Founder, Six Flags Parks; Winner, six Tony Awards |
Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper |
2013 |
Author, “Aerobics”; Founder/President, Cooper Aerobics Center; created training for US Astronauts; trained 1970 Brazil Soccer Team to World Cup Championship |
Dr. Jody Grant |
2014 |
"Father" of Dallas' Klyde Warren Park; Nationally Known Banker/Economist; Dallas Civic Leader; All America Swimmer at SMU; Horatio Alger Award; Linz Award |
Kay Bailey Hutchison |
2015 |
United States Senator; Texas State Treasurer; Texas State Representative; Vice Chair, National Transportation Safety Board; Helped Repeal Wright Amendment |
Gail and Robert Thomas |
2016 |
Gail – President & CEO, The Trinity Trust; raised funding for Margaret Hunt Hill and Margaret McDermott Bridges; Co-Founder, Dallas Institute for Humanities and Culture; dedicated life to improvement of cities; Psychotherapist; author/lecturer
Robert – Past President, Dallas Bar Association; acquired property for Belo Mansion Dallas Bar Headquarters; Lead Counsel for DISD in Dallas Desegregation Case; Board of Trustees, Southern Methodist University; President, SMU Alumni Association
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