Our Laureates
Junior Achievement of Washington Hall of Fame Laureates
Father William J. Sullivan, S.J.
- 2023
Seattle University
David Hirschberg
- 2021
Founder
RAIN Incubator
Phyllis J. Campbell
- 2021
Chair, Pacific Northwest Region
JPMorgan Chase
Adriane Brown
- 2021
Managing Partner
Fly Fishing Partners
Jim Sinegal
- 2015
Costco
Gene Juarez
- 2015
Founder
Gene Juarez Salons
Jeff Brotman
- 2015
Costco
Rufus Woods
- 2014
Wenatchee Daily World
LeRoy Nosbaum
- 2014
Itron, Inc.; Metricom, Inc.
Don Brunell
- 2014
Association of Washington Business
Chuck Barbo
- 2014
Catalyst Storage Partners; Shurgard Storage Centers, Inc.
Gary Oakland
- 2013
BECU
Mike Flynn
- 2013
Puget Sound Business JOurnal
Woody Howse
- 2013
Cable & Howse Ventures
Tom Cable
- 2013
Cable & Howse Ventures
Bill Ayer
- 2013
Alaska Airlines
Budd Gould
- 2012
Anthony's Restaurants
William D. Ruckelshaus
- 2012
EPA
Edie Hilliard
- 2012
Syndicated Radio Pioneer
Jim Douglas
- 2012
Northgate Centers, Inc.
Ricky Smith
- 2011
Stevedoring Services of America
Sally Narodick
- 2011
Education Software Pioneer
Gerald Grinstein
- 2011
Delta Airlines, BNSF
Michael D. Garvey
- 2011
Saltchuk
Don Watts
- 2010
Watts Brothers
H. William Kirschner
- 2010
K2 Corporation
Milt Kuolt
- 2010
Thousand Trails Horizon Airlines
John W. Creighton Jr.
- 2010
Weyerhaeuser
Allen Shoup
- 2009
Washington Pioneer Vintner
Lou Pepper
- 2009
Washington Mutual
Kirby Cramer
- 2009
Hazelton Laboratories
Barry Ackerley
- 2009
The Ackerley Group
Ginger Ackerley
- 2009
The Ackerley Group
Michael Phillips
- 2008
Russell Investments
Tomio Moriguchi
- 2008
Uwajimaya
John W. Stanton
- 2007
Wireless Entrepreneur
Robert L. Ringgenberg
- 2007
Vacation Internationale
Bob Burns
- 2007
Vacation Internationale
Dr. Nils August Johanson
- 2007
Swedish Medical Center
Walter W. Straley
- 2006
Pacific Northwest Bell
Dr. William B. Hutchinson
- 2006
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Kemper Freeman Jr.
- 2006
Kemper Development Co.
David T. Denny
- 2006
Pioneer Entrepreneur
William Grose
- 2004
Early Entrepreneur
Ed Fritzky
- 2004
Immunex
John Ellis
- 2004
Seattle Mariners
Tony Callison
- 2004
Callison Architecture, Inc.
H. Martin Smith Jr.
- 2002
Martin Smith Inc.
Lester Smith
- 2002
Kaye-Smith
William J. Bain Sr.
- 2002
NBBJ
Henry “Hank” Jansen
- 2001
Lynden, Inc.
James F. Nordstrom
- 2001
Nordstrom
John N. Nordstrom
- 2001
Nordstrom
John A. "Jack" McMillan
- 2001
Nordstrom
John L. Scott
- 2001
John L. Scott Real Estate
Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart
- 2000
Providence Hospital
Frank McLaughlin
- 2000
Puget Power
George Russell
- 2000
Frank Russell Company
Herb Bridge Robert Bridge
- 1999
Ben Bridge Jeweler
Henry H.B. Broderick
- 1999
Henry Broderick, Inc.
John Danz
- 1999
Sterling Recreation Organization
Joe Gottstein
- 1999
Longacres Racetrack
Frank A. Dupar
- 1998
Westin Hotels & Resorts
Henry L. Kotkins
- 1998
Skyway Luggage
Stanley O. McNaughton
- 1998
PEMCO Financial Services
Cecilia Schultz
- 1998
Early Seattle Arts Impresario
S. W. Thurston
- 1998
Westin Hotels & Resorts
George H. Bartell Sr.
- 1997
Bartell Drug Company
Prentice Bloedel
- 1997
MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.
Hawthorne K. Dent
- 1997
Safeco Corporation
Frank Shrontz
- 1997
The Boeing Company
James W. Clise
- 1996
Seattle Business & Civic Leader
Stuart Robertson
- 1996
Milliman & Robertson, Inc.
Herman Sarkowsky
- 1996
Sarkowsky Investments
Henry Yesler
- 1996
Early Seattle Businessman
Jack A. Benaroya
- 1995
The Benaroya Company
F. Kemper Freeman Sr.
- 1995
Bellevue Properties
W. Walter Williams
- 1995
Continental, Inc.
James M. Colman
- 1995
The Colman Company
Ben B. Ehrlichman
- 1994
United Pacific Corporation
Marcus Nalley
- 1994
Nalley’s Fine Foods
Hunter Simpson
- 1994
Physio-Control Corporation
Elbridge A. Stuart
- 1994
Carnation Company
James E. Casey
- 1993
United Parcel Service
O. D. Fisher
- 1993
Fisher Companies Inc.
Joshua Green
- 1993
Peoples Bank
Frederick T. Haley
- 1993
Brown & Haley
Eddie Bauer
- 1991
Eddie Bauer, Inc.
Alden J. Blethen
- 1991
The Seattle Times
Mark E. Reed
- 1991
Simpson Logging Company
Samuel N. Stroum
- 1991
Samuel Stroum Enterprises
Norton Clapp
- 1990
Weyerhaeuser Company
Thea Foss
- 1990
Foss Launch & Tug Company
Emil Sick
- 1990
Rainier Brewery
David E. Skinner
- 1990
ALPAC
Arthur A. Denny
- 1989
Financier
Jacob Furth
- 1989
Puget Sound National Bank
Henry Hewitt Jr.
- 1989
St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co.
Robert Moran
- 1989
Seattle Drydock & Shipbuilding Co.
Josephine Nordhoff
- 1989
The Bon Marche
George J. Schuchart
- 1989
Howard H. Wright
- 1989
Howard S. Wright & Co.
T. A. Wilson
- 1989
The Boeing Company
John M. Fluke Sr.
- 1988
John Fluke Engineering Co.
Paul Pigott
- 1988
PACCAR
Nat Rogers
- 1988
Univar
D. K. Don Weaver
- 1988
Crescent Manufacturing Co.
William E. Boeing
- 1987
The Boeing Company
William M. Allen
- 1987
The Boeing Company
Edward E. Carlson
- 1987
United Airlines
Dexter Horton
- 1987
Seattle First-National Bank
Horace Winslow McCurdy
- 1987
Puget Sound Bridge & Drydock
John W. Nordstrom
- 1987
Nordstrom
Frederick Weyerhaeuser
- 1987
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.
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