Citizen of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Awards
Since 1977, the Greater Juneau Chamber of Commerce has been honoring Juneau residents for their outstanding service to the community with the Citizen of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement awards. Recipients of these awards are announced at the Chamber’s Annual Banquet held in October at Centennial Hall.
2021 Lifetime Achievement Award
Bruce Denton
2021 Citizen of the Year
Holly Johnson & Laura McDonnell
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award
Kathy Rudd
2020 Lifetime Achievement Award
Neil Atkinson
2020 Citizen of the Year
Geoff and Marcy Larson
2019 Lifetime Achievement Award
Jim & Mary Becker
2019 Citizen of the Year
Hayden Garrison
2018 Lifetime Achievement Award
Steve & Jean Sztuk
2018 Lifetime Achievement Award
Senator Dennis Egan
2018 Citizen of the Year
2017 Lifetime Achievement Award
Joe Kahklen
2017 Citizen of the Year
John McConnochie
2016 Lifetime Achievement Award
Paulette Simpson
2016 Citizen of the Year
Kris Sell
Past Citizen Of the Year Winners
2019 Hayden Garrison
2018 Kirby Day
2017 John McConnochie
2016 Kris Sell-Gullefsen
2015 Bruce Denton
2014 Wayne Jensen
2013 Jim Wilcox Sr.
2012 George Elgee, Bob Rehfeld, & Max Mertz
2011 Merrill Sanford
2010 Richard Burns
2009 Richard Knapp
2008 Robert Martin
2007 Linda Thomas
2006 Dr. Bob Urata
2005 Bob Jacobson
2004 Ken Koelsch
2003 PeggyAnn McConnochie
2002 Win Gruening
2001 Dennis Egan
2000 Jerry Harmon
1999 John Sandor
1998 George Davidson
1997 Charlotte Richards
1996 Larraine Derr
1995 Rosemary Hagevig
1994 Jamie Parsons
1993 Beverly Dorsher and Marilyn Freymueller
1992 Ladd Macaulay
1991 Phil Holdsworth
1990 Don Abel
1989 Bruce Bowler
1988 J. Allan MacKinnon
1987 Bob Garrison
1986 Rudy Ripley
1985 Bill Corbus
1984 Felix Toner
1983 Bill Overstreet and Jim Clark
1982 Errol Champion
1981 Fred Eastaugh
1980 Bob DeArmond
1979 Bud Boddy
1978 Bill Flint
1977 Dr. Henry I. Akiyama
Past Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
Marie Darlin (2006)
Bea Shepard and Claudia Kelsey (2007)
Fred G. Baxter
Judge Tom Stewart
Curt Shattuck
Joe Alter
Lloyd Johnson
Dr. Walter Sobeloff
Bill Hudson
John Sandor
Sandy Williams
George Reifenstein (2015)
Paulette Simpson (2016)
Joe Kahklen (2017)
Steve & Jean Sztuk (2018)
Senator Dennis Egan (2018)