Past hall of fame laureates include the best and brightest of Washington state’s business community. We honor their achievements and successes! Included are a few videos honoring previous laureates.
Note: PS stands for laureates in the Puget Sound region and EWNI stands for laureates in the Eastern Washington/Northern Idaho region. All laureates prior to 2000 are from the Puget Sound region.
2019
Elaine Couture (EWNI)
Glen Nenema (EWNI)
2018
Penn Fix and Debra Schultz (EWNI)
Peter F. Stanton and John E. (Jack) Heath III (EWNI)
2017
Carl Behnke (PS)
Greg Bever (EWNI)
Artie Buerk (PS)
Donald P. Neilsen (PS)
Judith M. Runstad (PS)
Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer (EWNI)
Mark Sonderen (EWNI)
2016
Dr. Dwight Damon (EWNI)
Ivar Haglund (PS)
Bruce R. Kennedy (PS)
Dr. Harold “Harry” Mielke, Jr. and Marcia Mielke (EWNI)
Deanna Oppenheimer (PS)
2015
Clarence “Bud” Barnes (EWNI)
Jeff Brotman (PS)
Betsy Cowles (EWNI)
Douglas and Edward Hawkins (EWNI)
Gene Juarez (PS)
Jim Sinegal (PS)
2014
Charles Barbo (PS)
Don Brunell (PS)
David And Mari Clack (EWNI)
Rich Hadley (EWNI)
LeRoy Nosbaum (PS)
Rufus Woods (PS)
2013
Bill Ayer (PS)
Tom Cable (PS)
Mike Flynn (PS)
Woody Howse (PS)
Gary Oakland (PS)
James T. “Tim” Welsh (EWNI)
Bill and Judi Williams (EWNI)
2012
Jim Douglas (PS)
Budd Gould (PS)
Edie Hilliard (PS)
Don Kardong (EWNI)
William D. Ruckelshaus (PS)
Mike Taylor (EWNI)
2011
Michael Garvey (PS)
Gerald Grinstein (PS)
Sally Narodick (PS)
LeRoy Nosbaum (EWNI)
Ricky Smith (PS)
Wendle Motors/The Wendle Family (EWNI)
2010
Allied Fire & Security/The Hunt Family (EWNI)
John Creighton (PS)
William Kirschner (PS)
Milt Kuolt (PS)
William (Bill) Robinson (EWNI)
Don Watts (PS)
2009
Barry Ackerley (PS)
Ginger Ackerley (PS)
Gordon Budke (EWNI)
Kirby Cramer (PS)
Marlene “Marti” Hollenbeck (EWNI)
Lou Pepper (PS)
Allen Shoup (PS)
Dale Stedman (EWNI)
2008
Michael Phillips (PS)
Tomio Moriguchi (PS)
Paul Redmond (EWNI)
Samuel Selinger, MD (EWNI)
Father William J. Sullivan (PS)
2007
Bob Burns (PS)
Dr. Nils August Johanson (PS)
Ed McWilliams (EWNI)
Bill Peare (PS)
Robert L. Ringgenberg (PS)
John W. Stanton (PS)
Walt are Karen Worthy (EWNI)
2006
David T. Denny (PS)
Fidelity Associates Insurance and Financial Services/The Jones Family (EWNI)
Kemper Freeman, Jr. (PS)
Dr. William B. Hutchinson (PS)
Wendell J. Satre (EWNI)
Walter W. Straley (PS)
Ron & Julie Wells (EWNI)
2004
Tony Callison (PS)
William H. Cowles (EWNI)
John Ellis (PS)
Ed Fritzky (PS)
Jay P. Graves (EWNI)
William Grose (PS)
Larry Stanley (EWNI)
Ed Tsutakawa (EWNI)
2003
King Cole (EWNI)
Clarence Freeman (EWNI)
John W. Graham (EWNI)
Robert Benton Patterson (EWNI)
E.H. Stanton (EWNI)
2002
William J. Bain (PS)
Sister Peter Claver (EWNI)
Louis Davenport (EWNI)
James Monaghan (EWNI)
H. Martin Smith, Jr. (PS)
Lester Smith (PS)
Luke Williams (EWNI)
2001
Thoburn C. Brown (EWNI)
Daniel Chase Corbin (EWNI)
James M. Comstock (EWNI)
Henry Jansen (PS)
Eric Johnston (EWNI)
Bruce A. Nordstrom (PS)
James F. Nordstrom (PS)
John N. Nordstrom (PS)
John L. Scott (PS)
2000
Joel Ferris (EWNI)
Neal Fosseen (EWNI)
James Glover (EWNI)
Levi Hutton (EWNI)
Frank McLaughlin (PS)
Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart (PS)
George Russell, Jr. (PS)
Holt Webster (PS)
1999
Herb Bridge
Robert Bridge
Henry “H.B.” Broderick
John Danz
Joe Gottstein
1998
Frank A. Dupar
Henry L. Kotkins, Sr.
Stanley O. McNaughton
Cecilia Schultz
S.W. Thurston
1997
George H. Bartell, Sr.
Prentice Bloedel
Hawthorne K. Dent
Frank Shrontz
1996
James W. Clise
Stuart Robertson
Herman Sarkowsky
Henry Yesler
1995
Jack A. Benaroya
James M. Colman
F. Kemper Freeman, Sr.
W. Walter Williams
1994
Ben B. Erlichman
Marcus Nalley
Hunter Simpson
Elbridge A. Stuart
1993
James E. Casey
O.D. Fisher
Joshua Green
Frederick T. Haley
1991
Eddie Bauer
Alden J. Blethen
Mark E. Reed
Samuel E. Stroum
1990
Norton Clapp
Thea Foss
Emil Sick
David E. Skinner
1989
Arthur A. Denny
Jacob Furth
Henry Hewitt, Jr.
Robert Morgan
Josephine Nordhoff
George J. Schuchart
Howard H. Wright
T.A. Wilson
1988
John M. Fluke, Sr.
Paul Pigott
Nat Rogers
D.K. “Don” Weaver
1987
William A. Allen
William E. Boeing
Dorothy Stimson Bullitt
Edward E. Carlson
Dexter Horton
Horace Winslow McCurdy
John W. Nordstrom
Frederick Weyerhaeuser