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PRIOR INDUCTEES
This year’s 13 inductees to the Business and Civic Hall of Fame join 122
other leaders honored by The Baltimore Sun since 2016. They are:
2025
Sandra and Malcolm Berman:
philanthropists supporting
healthcare, arts and education
Maria Broom: actress, dancer
and movement instructor for
the Baltimore School for the
Arts
George Bunting: former chair
of Abell Foundation and Noxell
Corp.
Scott Dorsey: chairman and
CEO of Merritt Companies
Rhea Feikin: former television
host famous for leading pledge
drives
William McCarthy: retired
executive director of Catholic
Charities of Baltimore
Diana Gribbon Motz: retired
federal judge
Alan Rifkin: sports lawyer and
former counsel for the late Gov.
William Donald Schaefer
George A. Roche:
philanthropist and retired
chairman and CEO of T. Rowe
Price
Thomas Scalea: surgeon and
head of University of Maryland
Medical Center’s Shock Trauma
Center
Stuart Simms: retired law
partner who held senior
positions in state government
Walter Scott Thomas Sr.:
retired pastor of New Psalmist
Baptist Church
2024
James Britton: founder and
president of Class Act Catering
Patricia M.C. Brown:
healthcare regulatory lawyer
John B. Chessare: Greater
Baltimore Medical Center
president and CEO
Amy Elias and Richard
Pearlstone: philanthropic
couple supporting the arts and
Jewish charities
Donald Manekin: co-founder of
Seawall Development Co.
William H. Murphy Jr.: civil
rights lawyer and former judge
Alethia B. Starke: Carter
School of Music dean and
retired counselor
Paul A. Tiburzi: lawyer and
former chair of the Greater
Baltimore Committee
William J. Watters: Jesuit
priest founded schools for
under-resourced children
Arnold Williams: accountant
focused on lifting Black firms
2023
Leonard Attman: real estate
visionary, philanthropist and
fundraiser
Patricia and Michael Batza:
philanthropists and fundraisers
John R. Bryant: retired bishop
who pastored three churches
Mary Catherine Bunting:
retired nurse practitioner,
former nun and generous
benefactor
Richard W. “Dick” Cass:
retired Ravens president
Kevin J. Cullen: oncologist
specializing in head and neck
cancers
Robert J. “Bob” Gehman:
president emeritus of the
nonprofit Helping Up Mission
Leslie King Hammond: artist,
author, curator and scholar
Anthony “Tony” Hawkins: first
general manager of
Harborplace
Sherrilyn Ifill: president and
director counsel emerita of the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Sheela Murthy: founder and
president of the Murthy Law
Firm
Timothy J. “Tim” Regan:
president and CEO of WhitingTurner
Terry Meyerhoff Rubenstein:
philanthropist and former
journalist in radio and print
2022
Andre M. Davis: longtime judge
in state and federal courts;
Baltimore solicitor
Wanda Q. Draper: respected
journalist; public affairs and
museum director
Rebecca Alban Hoffberger:
co-founder of the American
Visionary Art Museum
Earl and Darielle Linehan:
noted philanthropists, with
special focus on UMBC
Maggie McIntosh: first woman
to serve as Democratic
majority leader
Deborah Phelps: education
leader, author and motivational
speaker
E. Albert Reece: retired dean of
the University of Maryland
School of Medicine
Paul B. Rothman: retired dean
of Johns Hopkins’ medical
school
Laurie Schwartz: Downtown
Partnership co-founder;
Waterfront Partnership leader
Clair Zamoiski Segal:
fundraiser, past chair of the
Baltimore Museum of Art
William Stromberg: former
president and CEO of T. Rowe
Price
Alfred C.D. Vaughn: retired
pastor of Sharon Baptist
Church
2021
James Piper Bond: president
and CEO of Living Classrooms
Foundation
Thomas and Barbara Bozzuto:
philanthropists and city
boosters
Donald C. Fry: former legislator,
Greater Baltimore Committee
president
R. Michael Gill: chairman of
Evergreen Advisors LLC
Linda Gooden: retired
Lockheed Martin executive
Alvin C. Hathaway Sr.: pastor
of Baltimore’s Union Baptist
Church
Jeanne Hitchcock: special
adviser, Johns Hopkins
University and Medicine
Cathy Hughes: founder and
chair of Urban One Inc.
Donald Hutchinson: former
legislator, Baltimore County
executive and Maryland Zoo
CEO
Sabina Kelly: retired Maryland
market president at Bank of
America
Jay Perman: fifth chancellor of
the University System of
Maryland
David K. Wilson: 10th president
of Morgan State University
2020
Marin Alsop: music director of
the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra
H. Furlong Baldwin: chair of
the Nasdaq Stock Market
Thelma Daley: national
director of Women in the
NAACP
Brian J. Gibbons: CEO of
Greenberg Gibbons
Michael D. Hankin: president
and CEO of Brown Advisory
Carla Hayden: librarian of
Congress
Freeman A. Hrabowski III:
president of UMBC
Gary C. Kelly: chairman and
CEO of Southwest Airlines
Neil Meltzer: president and
CEO of LifeBridge Health
Ozzie Newsome: executive
with Baltimore Ravens
Mary-Ann and Walter D.
Pinkard Jr.: philanthropists
Mary Ann Scully: CEO of
Howard Bank
2019
Robert C. Embry Jr.: head of
Baltimore’s Abell Foundation
John B. Frisch: CEO of Miles &
Stockbridge
Larry Gibson: civil rights
leader; University of Maryland
law professor
Sandy Hillman: president of
Sandy Hillman
Communications
Brian C. Rogers: chief
investment officer at T. Rowe
Price
Paul Sarbanes: U.S. senator
from Maryland
Kurt Schmoke: president of
the University of Baltimore
Mary Pat Seurkamp:
president of Notre Dame of
Maryland University
Leonard and Roslyn Stoler:
philanthropists
Otis Warren Jr.: CEO Otis
Warren Group
John Waters: director, writer,
performer
2018
Norman R. Augustine: CEO of
Lockheed Martin
Robert M. Bell: chief judge of
Maryland Court of Appeals
Diane Bell-McKoy: president
and CEO of Associated Black
Charities
Chet Burrell: CEO of CareFirst
BlueCross BlueShield
Joseph Haskins Jr.: co-founder
of Harbor Bank of Maryland
Mark and Patricia Joseph:
philanthropists
Patricia J. Mitchell: IBM
executive
Ronald R. Peterson: president
of Johns Hopkins Health
System
Edward St. John: founder of
St. John Properties
Ronald M. Shapiro: attorney,
sports agent and author
2017
Doreen Bolger: director of the
Baltimore Museum of Art
David Cordish: CEO of the
Cordish Companies
Michael Cryor: president of
the Cryor Group LLC
William Kirwan: president of
the University of Maryland
Lainy LeBow-Sachs: executive
at Kennedy Krieger Institute
Barbara Mikulski: U.S. senator
from Maryland
Henry A. Rosenberg Jr.: CEO of
Crown Central Petroleum Corp.
George L. Russell Jr.: Baltimore
City solicitor; judge Maryland
Court of Special Appeals
Betsy and George Sherman:
philanthropists
2016
Helen Amos: CEO of Mercy
Medical Center
Peter G. Angelos: attorney and
owner of the Baltimore Orioles
Helen Delich Bentley: U.S.
representative from Maryland
Eddie and Sylvia Brown:
philanthropists
Nancy S. Grasmick: Maryland
state schools superintendent
Francis X. Kelly Jr.: business
owner and Maryland senator
James A.C. Kennedy: CEO of T.
Rowe Price
Raymond A. Mason: founder
of Legg Mason
Robert Meyerhoff:
philanthropist
John Paterakis Sr.: founder of
H&S Bakery and H&S
Properties Development Corp.
Theo Rodgers: CEO of A&R
Development
