Previous Classes
Carolinas Entrepreneur Hall of Fame
Class of 2023
Jennifer Appleby, Wray Ward
Louis Foreman, Enventys
Class of 2022
Tana Greene, MyWorkChoice
Michael Praeger, AvidXchange
Class of 2020
Doug Lebda, LendingTree
Ed Weisiger, Sr. & Ed Weisiger, Jr., CTE
Class of 2019
Bill Barnhardt, Barnhardt Elastic Corp.
John Crosland, Jr., Crosland (posthumously)
Dee & Rick Ray, Raycom Sports
Class of 2018
Stuart & Alan (posthumously) Dickson, Ruddick Corporation
Roger Milliken, Milliken & Company (posthumously)
Class of 2017
Erskine Bowles, Bowles Hollowel Connor & Co. and Carousel Capital
Charles W. Coker, Sonoco Products Company
Harvey B. Gantt, Gantt Huberman Architects
Class of 2016
Ric Elias, Red Ventures
Rick Hendrick, Hendrick Automotive Group
Anita G. Zucker, The InterTech Group, Inc.
Class of 2015
Charles A. Cannon, Cannon Mills (posthumously)
David H. Jones, Peak 10
Patricia & B. D. (posthumously) Rodgers, Rodgers Builders
Class of 2014
Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Bank of America
Temple Sloan, Jr., General Parts International, Inc.
Craig Wall, Sr. & Craig Wall, Jr., Canal Industries (posthumously)
Class of 2013
Joe L. Dudley, Sr. & Eunice M. Dudley, Dudley Products, Inc.
Francis M. Hipp, Liberty Corporation (posthumously)
Charles M. Shelton & R. Edwin Shelton, The Shelton Companies
Class of 2012
George Dean Johnson, Jr., Johnson Management
Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Pace Communications
Joan & Robert Zimmerman, Southern Shows, Inc.
Class of 2011
Herman Blumenthal, Radiator Specialty and NC Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (posthumously)
Wayland H. Cato, Jr., The Cato Corporation
Jim Goodnight, SAS
Class of 2010
Ralph Ketner, Food Lion
Leon Levine, Family Dollar Stores
Jerry Richardson, Spartan Foods and the Carolina Panthers
Founding Class
William Henry Belk, Belk, Inc. (posthumously)
James Edgar Broyhill, Broyhill Furniture Industries (posthumously)
Thomas H. Davis, Piedmont Airlines (posthumously)
James B. Duke, Duke Power Co. (posthumously)
J. Reynolds, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (posthumously)
Leroy Springs, Springs Cotton Mills (posthumously)
