Hall of Fame Legends

2024 Induction

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NOMINATE A LEGEND

The 2024 nomination period is now closed. Inductees will be announced this spring. Please check back this fall for 2025 nomination information.

Please review this document for helpful information and eligibility requirements.


contact information

Email: mwalker@texasbusiness.org
Phone: 713-960-1820
Mail:  675 Bering Drive, Suite 200
Houston, TX 77057


Class of 2023 legends

Arch “Beaver” Aplin III

Eddie Block &
Alan Dreeben

Christopher “Kit” Goldsbury Jr.

janet gurwitch

daniel lubetzky

jack martin


nomination & voting process

The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation was created in 1982 by a small group of Texans to focus awareness on the positive achievements made by outstanding business leaders in our State and honor their contributions in both business and community. Anyone can nominate an individual for the Texas Business Hall of Fame. Every year, twenty finalists are selected based on their business impact and the extent to which they have used their success to improve their state, national and global community. Our inductees are elected on a ballot circulated to all living Texas Business Hall of Fame members. 


thank you to the legends who voted on the 2023 inductee ballot

Carlos Alvarez
Charlie Amato
Greg Armstrong
John Arnold
Colleen Barrett
Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
Lucy Billingsley
Ric Campo
Albert Chao
James Chao
Ernest (Ernie) Cockrell
Mark Cuban
John Paul DeJoria
Michael Dell
Tom Dobson
Gary Dudley
Robert Duncan
Dick Evans
Richard W. Fisher
Gerald J. Ford
Douglas L. Foshee
Paul Foster

John C. Goff
Matt F. Gorges
William E. (Bill) Greehey
James T. Hackett
Gordon V. Hartman
Doug D. Hawthorne
Thomas O. Hicks
Jeffrey D. Hildebrand
Paul W. Hobby
Forrest E. Hoglund
Woody L. Hunt
Jerry Jones
Gary C. Kelly
Rosemary E. Kowalski
Michael C. Linn
Red McCombs
James (Mack) McIngvale
Drayton McLane, Jr.
Morton H. Meyerson
Bill Miller Family
Lee Roy Mitchell
Mike A. Myers

Harvey E. Najim
John L. Nau, III
Harry Pefanis
Ross Perot, Jr.
Corbin J. Robertson, Jr.
Jeff Sandefer
Kendra Scott
Gerald B. Smith
William T. Solomon
Lionel Sosa
Dian Stai
Randall L. Stephenson
Jerry L. Susser
Sam L. Susser
Dennert O. Ware
David Weekley
Richard Weekley
Graham Weston
Edward E. Whitacre, Jr.
Patricia Will
Dan Wolterman
Donald Zale


Hall of fame legends

2023

  • Arch “Beaver” Aplin, III
  • Eddie Block & Alan Dreeben
  • Christopher “Kit” Goldsbury, Jr.
  • Janet Gurwitch
  • Daniel Lubetzky
  • Jack Martin

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2022

  • John Arnold
  • Ric Campo
  • Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Thomas O. Hicks
  • Jeffery D. Hildebrand
  • Paul W. Hobby

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2020/2021

  • Mark Cuban
  • John Paul DeJoria
  • John C. Goff
  • Morton H. Meyerson
  • Gerald Smith
  • Randall Stephenson

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2019

  • Richard W. Fisher
  • George C. “Tim” Hixon 
  • Bill Miller Family
  • Kendra Scott
  • Robert F. Smith
  • Graham Weston

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2018

  • Albert Chao
  • Dorothy Chao Jenkins
  • James Chao
  • T.T. Chao
  • Ernest (Ernie) Cockrell
  • Jim Crane
  • Jim McIngvale 
  • David Weekley
  • Richard (Dick) Weekley
  • Patricia Will

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2017

  • Lucy Billingsley
  • David Bonderman
  • Forrest E. Hoglund
  • Stan Richards
  • Carl Sewell
  • Zale/Lipshy Families

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2016

  • Warren E. Buffett
  • Charles E. Cheever, Jr.
  • Dian Graves Stai
  • Gordon V. Hartman
  • Gary C. Kelly
  • Charles T. Munger
  • Dennert O. Ware 

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2015

  • Greg Armstrong
  • Woody L. Hunt
  • Michael C. Linn
  • Harry Pefanis
  • Grady Rosier
  • Dan Wolterman

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2014

  • Donald L. Evans
  • Gerald J. Ford
  • Douglas D. Hawthorne, FACHE
  • Trevor Rees-Jones
  • Harold C. Simmons
  • Kelcy Warren

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2013

  • Charlie Amato
  • Tom Dobson
  • Gary Dudley
  • Paul Foster
  • Joseph M. “Jody“ Grant
  • H-E-B
  • Rex W. Tillerson

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2012

  • Donald Adam          
  • Frank A. Bennack, Jr.
  • Douglas L. Foshee
  • John L. Nau, III
  • Todd Wagner

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2011

  • Barry G. Andrews    
  • Colleen Barrett
  • Lee Roy Mitchell
  • Ross Perot, Jr.
  • Welcome Wilson, Sr.

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2010

  • Carlos Alvarez
  • Robert Duncan
  • W.A. “Monty“ Moncrief
  • W.A. “Tex“ Moncrief, Jr.
  • Harvey E. Najim

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2009

  • James T. Hackett
  • Philip Romano
  • Jerry L. Susser
  • Sam J. Susser
  • Sam L. Susser
  • Martha Fuller Turner

2008

  • Dick Evans
  • Mike A. Myers
  • Glen E. Roney
  • Kern Wildenthal, MD, PhD

2007

  • Tom Benson
  • Dr. James R. Leininger
  • Paul J. Sarvadi
  • Clayton W. Williams, Jr.

2006

  • Joe B. Foster
  • Dennis E. Nixon
  • Lee R. Raymond
  • Corbin J. Robertson, Jr.
  • Jeff Sandefer

2005

  • Walter E. Johnson
  • Jerry Jones
  • T. Boone Pickens
  • Vin Prothro
  • Tim Word

2004

  • Tilman J. Fertitta
  • Matt F. Gorges
  • Peter Holt
  • Rosemary E. Kowalski
  • Lowell H. Lebermann, Jr.

2003

  • Baylor College of Medicine
  • Allen J. Becker
  • Dan L. Duncan
  • Reese M. Rowling
  • Robert B. Rowling

2002

  • Robert J. Allison, Jr.
  • Louis A. Beecherl, Jr.
  • William E. “Bill” Greehey
  • Lee William “Bill” McNutt, Jr.
  • Robert D. Rogers

2001

  • Stanford J. Alexander
  • Rod Canion
  • Don D. Jordan
  • Charles L. “Chuck” Watson

2000

  • Henry C. Beck, Jr.
  • Al Casey
  • A.R. “Tony” Sanchez, Jr.
  • Roger Staubach
  • H.B. Zachry, Jr.
  • H.B. Zachry, Sr.

1999

  • President George H.W. Bush
  • Tom Friedkin
  • The Caroline Rose Hunt Family
  • L. Lowry Mays
  • Louis M. Pearce, Jr.
  • Eckhard Pfeiffer

1998

  • Mary Crowley
  • Michael Dell
  • Harold Hook
  • S. Roger Horchow
  • Red McCombs

1997

  • J.S. Abercrombie
  • Lamar Hunt
  • Robert C. McNair, Sr.
  • Fayez Sarofim
  • Edward E. Whitacre, Jr.

1996

  • Ebby Halliday Acers
  • Anne Windfohr Marion
  • Harry K. Smith
  • William T. Solomon
  • Lionel Sosa

1995

  • Joe L. Albritton
  • Governor Dolph Briscoe
  • Joe M. Dealey
  • Robert W. Decherd
  • William Stamps Farish
  • W. Carloss Morris
  • Stewart Morris
  • James M. Moroney, Jr.

1994

  • Comer J. Cottrell
  • Charles G. Cullum
  • Robert B. Cullum
  • John P. Harbin
  • George P. Mitchell
  • John V. Roach

1993

  • Aron S. Gordon
  • The Kruse Family
  • Robert M. Luby
  • Robert R. Onstead
  • Ambassador Robert S. Strauss
  • Ben Taub

1992

  • The Baird Family
  • Roy M. Huffington
  • Ray L. Hunt
  • Drayton McLane, Jr.
  • W. Ray Wallace

1991

  • John F. Baugh
  • Gordon A. Cain
  • Governor William P. Clements, Jr.
  • Thomas C. Frost
  • Howard R. Hughes, Jr.
  • Ben J. Rogers

1990

  • Jack S. Blanton
  • Norman Brinker
  • Edwin L. Cox
  • Cecil H. Green
  • Frank W. McBee, Jr.

1989

  • Albert B. Alkek
  • Perry R. Bass
  • Hugh Roy Cullen
  • Ben F. Love
  • McHenry Tichenor

1988

  • John S. Justin, Jr.
  • Herbert D. Kelleher
  • George Kozmetsky
  • Frank W. Mayborn
  • Henry S. Miller, Jr.

1987

  • Lloyd M. Bentsen, Sr.
  • Robert H. Dedman
  • Gerald D. Hines
  • General Robert F. McDermott
  • Robert A. Mosbacher, Sr.

1986

  • Mary Kay Ash
  • Amon Carter, Sr.
  • Ray Ellison
  • H.L. Hunt
  • Ross Perot

1985

  • Trammell Crow
  • Judge James Elkins, Sr.
  • Walter M. Mischer, Sr.
  • Eddy C. Scurlock
  • Gus S. Wortham

1984

  • Monroe Anderson
  • William Clayton
  • J.M. Haggar, Sr.
  • Oveta Culp Hobby
  • Stanley Marcus
  • Clint W. Murchison, Jr.
  • Sid Richardson
  • John Shary
  • Joe C. Thompson
  • Sam Young, Sr.
  • Joe Zeppa

1983

  • George R. Brown
  • Herman Brown
  • Jesse H. Jones
  • J. Erik Jonsson
  • Robert Kleberg, Jr.
  • L.F. McCollum
  • W.D. Noel
  • Charles Tandy
  • Arthur Temple