Honorees were selected to recognize the variety and full continuum of the leadership found in our community; from life-time achievement to visionary and new initiatives representing an investment in the St. Louis community.

Past Honorees

  • 2009
  • Christopher "Kit" Bond United States Senator, Missouri
  • June McAllister Fowler BJC HealthCare
  • Dee A. Joyner Commerce Bank
  • W. Stephen Maritz Maritz Holdings Inc.
  • Donald M. Suggs St. Louis American
  • 2008
  • James Buford Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, Inc.
  • Rodney Crim St. Louis Development Corporation
  • Tracy Hart Tarlton Corp.
  • Lesley Hoffarth Missouri Department of Transportation
  • Robert Kelley
  • Don Kornblet
  • Dan Lee Pinnacle Entertainment
  • Sharon Rohrbach Nurses for Newborns
  • J. Kim Tucci Pasta House Co.
  • 2007
  • Cynthia Brinkley AT&T Service Inc.
  • Claudia Daugherty-Seabuahg*
  • Charlie Dooley St. Louis County
  • Serena Muhammad St. Louis SCORES
  • Will Winter UMSL- Public Policy Research Center
  • 2006
  • Rebeccah Bennett Vector Communications Corporation
  • Robert Fruend St. Louis Regional Health Commission
  • Dawn Stringfield Former Executive Director of Lydia’s House
  • Ron Watermon St. Louis Cardinals
  • Mark Wrighton Washington University in St. Louis
  • 2005
  • Father Lawrence Biondi Saint Louis University
  • Jackie Faber
  • Randy Fleisher Central Reform Congregation
  • Genevieve Frank Legal Services of Eastern Missouri
  • Orvin Kimbrough Faith Beyond Walls
  • Rupdolph Nickens, Jr. The Black Rep
  • Omar Perkins MERS Goodwill
  • Peter Sortino Danforth Foundation
  • 2004
  • Donald Danforth City Academy
  • Flint Fowler Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club
  • Linda Goldstein Invironmentalists
  • Charles W. Mueller AmerenUE
  • Mary Nelson Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C.
  • Cheryl Walker Obasi Enterprises
  • George R. Westfall*
  • 2003
  • John Bachmann Edward Jones
  • 2002
  • E. Desmond Lee Des Lee Foundation
  • 2001
  • David Darnell Bank Of America Central Region
  • 2000
  • Mary Ann Van Lokeren Krey Distributing Company
  • 1999
  • William Danforth Washington University in St. Louis
  • 1998
  • August A. Busch, III Anheuser Busch
  • 1997
  • Lee Liberman
  • 1996
  • Clarence C. Barksdale Washington University in St. Louis
  • 1995
  • Andrew A. Craig, III RiverVest
  • 1994
  • Harry Morley
  • 1993
  • Martin Mathews Mathews Dickey Boys and Girls Club
  • 1992
  • Robert J. Baer
  • 1991
  • Lawrence K. Roos*
  • 1990
  • Paul C. Reinert, S.J.*
  • 1989
  • William E. Cornelius
  • * Deceased