Recognizing Community Leaders For More Than 20 Years
The Kiwanis Club of Birmingham with its Birmingham Business Hall of Fame annually selects business leaders who have exemplified strong leadership and made extraordinary contributions to the Greater Birmingham area. The 550-plus members of the downtown Kiwanis invite the community to join them as they recognize these outstanding business leaders in a virtual ceremony on Thursday, Aug. 26, at 6:30 pm. The event will be livestreamed on the Kiwanis Facebook page. You can also request the event link by emailing assistant@kcob.org.
The 2020-21 Inductees into the Birmingham Business Hall of Fame
John Hand, First National Bank of Birmingham
Grayson Hall, Regions Financial Corporation
Elmer Harris, Alabama Power Company
Dr. Basil Hirschowitz, UAB Gastroenterology
Billy Charles Martin, Martin Advertising
William Pettiford, Alabama Penny Savings Bank
Dr. Shelley Stewart, o2ideas
W. Edgar Welden, WeldenField
How we select honorees
A committee of Kiwanis members carefully considers nominees made by the membership and take into account the following criteria:
1. The individual has actively engaged in an endeavor that has had substantial positive economic impact on the Greater Birmingham area.
2. Normally, the recipient should be the chief executive and/or founder of a company or in a major leadership role of a company or organization that has developed, matured or expanded under his/her leadership.
3. The individual receiving the award has demonstrated leadership that is responsible for substantial positive change in commerce, industry, education, employment or other areas and may be living or deceased.
4. Nominees should be leaders of enterprises located in the Greater Birmingham area.
5. Consideration will also be given to institutional change and its positive growth/impact to the Greater Birmingham community, job creation, economic contribution or any other
positive impact on the Birmingham area.
1997
Joseph S. Bruno
Bruno’s Incorporated
Ehney A. Camp Jr.
Liberty National Life Insurance Company
Emory O. Cunningham
Southern Progress Corporation
Dr. A. G. Gaston
Gaston Enterprises
Robert E. Luckie Jr.
Luckie & Company
Elton B. Stephens
EBSCO Industries, Inc.
1998
Wallace R. Bunn
BellSouth Corporation
John M. Harbert III
Harbert Corporation
Emil C. Hess
Parisian, Inc.
Caldwell Marks
Motion Industries, Inc.
Thomas E. Rast
Lawrence Arendall Humphries
Dr. Joseph F. Volker
University of Alabama at Birmingham
1999
Houston A. Brice Jr.
Brice Building Company
Harry B. Brock Jr.
Compass Bank
Charles W. Ireland
Vulcan Materials Company
Thomas W. Martin
Alabama Power Company
William J. Rushton III
Protective Life Corporation
Hall W. Thompson
Thompson Tractor Company
2000
Henry C. Goodrich
Richgood Corporation
Wallace D. Malone
SouthTrust Corporation
Katherine M. McTyeire
Iron Art, Inc.
Louis Pizitz
Pizitz
Louis J. Willie
Booker T. Washington Insurance Company
2001
Dr. Neal R. Berte
Birmingham-Southern College
Thomas E. Bradford
Bradford and Company
John Joseph Eagan
American Cast Iron Pipe Company
Stanley Mackin
Regions Financial Corporation
William M. Spencer III
Motion Industries, Inc.
2002
Frank H. Bromberg Jr.
Bromberg and Company, Inc.
Sallie C. Creel
Thrifty Car Rental
Clarence B. Hanson
The Birmingham News Company
James C. Lee Jr.
Buffalo Rock Company
2003
Douglas Arant
Bradley Arant
Miller Gorrie
Brasfield & Gorrie
Bernard Monaghan Jr.
Vulcan Materials Company
John W. Woods
AmSouth Bank
2004
Joseph M. Farley
Alabama Power Company
Crawford T. Johnson III
Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc.
Ted C. Kennedy
B E & K, Inc.
Mervin T. Sterne
Sterne, Agee & Leach
Lee J. Styslinger Jr.
ALTEC Industries
2005
Houston Blount
Vulcan Materials Company
Dr. Thomas E. Corts
Samford University
James A. Head
Heads Incorporated
Charles Linn
Linn Ironworks and
The National Bank of Birmingham
Frank P. Samford
Liberty National Life Insurance Company
Frank P. Samford Jr.
Liberty National Life Insurance Company
and Torchmark Corporation
2006
Braxton Bragg Comer
Avondale Mills
Lee McGriff Jr.
McGriff, Seibels & Williams, Inc.
John T. Milner
Milner Coal & Iron Company
Emmet O’Neal
O’Neal Steel, Inc.
2007
Afton M. Lee Sr.
Afton Lee Grocery
Dr. Charles A. McCallum Jr.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Sabert Oglesby Jr.
Southern Research Institute
Herbert C. Stockham Sr.
Stockham Valves & Fittings, Inc.
Allan H. Woodward
Woodward Iron Company
2008
Hugh Daniel
Daniel International Corporation
Robert Jemison
Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Company
Robert Jemison Jr.
Jemison Real Estate and Insurance Company
Eugene Moor Jr.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama
James T. Stephens
EBSCO Industries, Inc.
2009
Dr. A. Derrill Crowe
ProAssurance Corporation
Henry F. DeBardeleben
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company
Dr. S. Richardson Hill, Jr.
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Paul Jones, Jr.
Compass Bancshares, Inc. and Compass Bank
2010
Garry Neil Drummond
Drummond Company, Inc.
Drayton Nabers, Jr.
Protective Life Insurance
Fred W. Sington
Fred Sington Sporting Goods
Frank E. Spain
Spain & Gillon
2011
Marvin R. Engel
Engel Realty Company
William P. Engel
Engel Realty Company
Glenn Ireland, II
Vulcan Materials Company
William R. Ireland, Sr.
Vulcan Materials Company
Wayne W. Killion, Sr.
Shook & Fletcher Insulation Company
Dr. John W. Kirklin
Kirklin Clinic
2012
Sloan Y. Bashinsky, Sr.
Golden Flake Snack Foods, Inc.
Lee C. Bradley, Jr.
Bradley Arant Rose & White, LLP
Charles A. Collat, Sr.
Mayer Electric Supply Company, Inc.
Robert E. Luckie, III
Luckie & Company
2013
Michael Goodrich
BE&K, Inc.
J.R. McWane
McWane, Inc.
William McWane
McWane, Inc.
James R. McWane
McWane, Inc.
2014
Richard E. Anthony
Synovus Financial Corp.
Emmett R. Johnson
Baptist Medical Centers
Susan W. Matlock
Innovation Depot, Inc.
Jim W. Waitzman
Tractor & Equipment Company
Jim Waitzman, Jr.
Tractor & Equipment Company
2015
Gen. Charles C. Krulak
Birmingham-Southern College
Don Logan
Southern Progress Corporation
Stephen D. Moxley
American Cast Iron Pipe Company
Erskine Ramsay
Pratt Consolidated Coal
2016
Mason Davis
Sirote & Permutt, P.C.
Maryam B. Head
Ram Tool & Supply Co., Inc.
Bill Smith, Jr.
Royal Cup Coffee
Hatton C. V. Smith
Royal Cup Coffee
Wm. Michael Warren
Children’s of Alabama /Energen
2017
Sterling Edwards
Edwards Chevrolet
Leon W. Edwards
Edwards Chevrolet
William W. Featheringill
Complete Health
Jay Grinney
HealthSouth Corporation
Bill L. Harbert
B.L. Harbert International
William T. Warren
Warren Knight & Davis
2018
Thomas J. Adams
AutoTec
Mother Angelica
EWTN
Sister Mary Frances Loftin
St. Vincent’s Health System
Michael Calvert
Operation New Birmingham
Ervin Jackson
The Jackson Company
Philip C. Jackson Jr.
The Jackson Company
2019
Jesse Lewis Sr.
Agency 54
John McMahon
Ligon Industries
Kate Nielsen
Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham
J.B. Schilleci
Supreme Beverage Company
Charles Schilleci
Supreme Beverage Company
Arthur D. Shores
Shores & Lee Law Office, P.C.
Herbert A. Sklenar
Vulcan Materials Company