PAST HALL OF FAME HONOREES
Annette S. Eskind Inspiring Educator Award
Addison Barrack (2025)
Antioch High School
Montrell Williams (2025)
Whites Creek High School
Merlene Barlow (2024)
Ida B. Wells Elementary School
Katie Liggett (2024)
Ida B. Wells Elementary School
Jessica Abarquez-New (2023)
Glencliff High School
Lauren Binkley (2023)
Eagle View Elementary School
Angela Allen (2022)
McGavock High School
Laura Vignon (2022)
McGavock High School
Jan Esterline (2021)
Overton High School
Daven Oglesby (2021)
Lakeview Elementary Design Center
Amanda Dardy (2020)
GEAR UP, Cane Ridge Cluster
Nikki Healy (2020)
Early College High School
Crystal Hicks (2019)
Robert Churchwell Museum Magnet Elementary School
Mary Jane Manley (2019)
Harris-Hillman School
Jarred Amato (2018)
Founder of Project LIT Community
Thomas J. Sherrard Inspiring Innovation Award
Adroit (2025)
Nashville Tools For Schools (2025)
Cosecha Community Development (2024)
Creative Girls Rock (2024)
Voces de Nashville (2023)
Water Walkers (2023)
The Black Book Project (2022)
Urban Green Lab (2022)
BeWell in School (2021)
FUTURO (2021)
Gideon's Army (2020)
Restorative Student Leaders (2019)
UniCycle (2019)
The Educators’ Cooperative (2018)
Nashville Public Library's Limitless Libraries program (2017)
The Nashville Newcomer Academy (2016)
Ronald L. Corbin Inspiring Leader Award
Chris Plummer (2025)
Principal, Cane Ridge Elementary School
Molly Rucker (2024)
Principal, John B. Whitsitt Elementary School
Dr. Brian Mells (2023)
Principal, Whites Creek High School
K.C. Winfrey (2022)
Principal Cora Howe School
Nelson C. Andrews Distinguished Service Award
Janet Miller (2025)
Vice Chairman and Principal, Colliers Nashville
Jerry Williams (2024)
Executive Director Emerita, Leadership Nashville
Hal Cato (2023)
CEO, Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
Kay Simmons (2022)
Founding Director, Nashville Alliance for Public Education
Senator Brenda Gilmore (2021)
TN State Senator, District 19
Tom Ward (2020)
President and CEO, Oasis Center
Judge Richard Dinkins (2019)
Tennessee Court of Appeals judge
Lewis Lavine (2018)
Nashville community and nonprofit leader
Judge Sheila Calloway (2017)
Davidson County Juvenile Court judge
Renata Soto (2016)
Cofounder and Executive Director of Conexion Americas
Juli Mosley (2015)
Community Volunteer
Ralph Mosley (2015)
Former CEO, Southwestern/Great American, Inc.
Phil Bredesen (2014)
Former Governor of Tennessee and Former Mayor of Nashville
Dr. Bill Frist (2014)
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader and Founder of Tennessee SCORE
Margaret Dolan
President and CEO, LocalShares Knowledge, LLC
Dr. Robert Fisher (2012)
President, Belmont University
Orrin Ingram (2011)
President and CEO, Ingram Industries Inc.
Tammy Genovese (2010)
Former CEO, Country Musician Association
Kix Brooks (2010)
Award-Winning Singer/Songwriter
Thomas J. Sherrard, III (2009)
Founding Member, Sherrard & Roe, PLC
Bill Purcell (2008)
Former Mayor of Nashville
Nelson C. Andrews (2007)
Founder and Former Board Chairman, Brookside Properties
Dr. Jean Litterer (2006)
Former Principal, Hillsboro High School
Annette S. Eskind (2005)
Education Advocate and Founder of the Original Nashville Public Education
Distinguished Alumni Award
Martesha Johnson Moore
Nashville Metropolitan Chief Public Defender
Marlene Eskind Moses
Family Law Attorney, GSRM Law
Tom Parrish
Chief Operating Officer, Scarlett Family Foundation
Chief John Drake
Chief of Police, Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
Charles Starks
President and CEO, Convention Center Authority
Dr. Susan West
Chief of Staff and Executive Vice President for Administration, Belmont University
André Prince
Owner, Prince's Hot Chicken
Rep. Harold Love, Jr.
Tennessee House of Representatives, 58th District; Pastor, Lee Chapel A.M.E. Church
Linda Eskind Rebrovick
President, Impact Corporate Consulting
Dr. André Churchwell
Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer for Vanderbilt University
Diane Janbakhsh
Founder and Executive Director of the Hispanic Family Foundation
Dwayne Tucker
CEO and Founder of DT Consulting, CEO of LEAD Public Schools
Lisa Ferrelli
Senior Vice President with the Mid South Global Commercial Banking team, Bank of America
Don Hardin, Jr.
Founder and CEO, Don Hardin Group
Dr. Alex Jahangir
Director, Division of Orthopaedic Trauma, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Gini Pupo-Walker
State Director for Tennessee, Education Trust
Clint Gray
Co-founder and the CMO, Slim & Husky’s
E.J. Reed
Co-founder and the CFO, Slim & Husky’s
Derrick Moore
Co-founder and the President, Slim & Husky’s
2019
Kasar Abdulla
Chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Valor Collegiate Academies
Dr. Adrienne Battle
Director of Metro Nashville Public Schools
Jimmy Granbery
Chairman and CEO of the H.G. Hill Realty Company and chairman of the H.G. Hill Company
Harry Allen
Co-founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Relationship Officer, Studio Bank
Rashed Fakhruddin
Engineering Supervisor, Nashville Electric Service
Anne Lowry Russell
Attorney, Adams and Reese LLP
Shannon Hunt
Former Nashville Public Education Foundation President and CEO
Joey Hatch
Executive Vice President and General Manager of Skanska USA’s Midwest Region
Dr. Valerie Malyvanh Jansen
Medical oncologist at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in the Division of Hematology and Oncology
Janet Miller
CEO of the Nashville office of Colliers International
Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw Jr.
Federal District Judge of the Middle District of Tennessee
Joe Steakley
Senior Vice President of the Internal Audit and Risk Services at HCA
The Rev. Dr. Becca Stevens
Founder and President of Thistle Farms
Decosta Jenkins
President and CEO, Nashville Electric Service
Mary Carol Humphreys Friddell
President, NATS, Inc.
Mark Rowan
President, Griffin Technology
Beverly Keel
Chair and Professor, Middle Tennessee State University’s Department of Recording Industry
Dr. Jeffrey Eskind
Saint Thomas Medical Group and Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University
Sandra Lipman
Community Leader and Volunteer
James Bearden
CEO of Gresham, Smith and Partners
Brenda Wynn
Davidson County Clerk
Walter Overton
General Manager, Tennessee Titans/LP Field
Dr. Steven Eskind
Director, Surgical Clerkship Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Robert Lipman
President and CEO, Lipman Brothers, Inc.
Rev. Kenneth S. Robinson, M.D.
Senior Pastor, St. Andrew African Methodist Episcopal Church
Joe Casey
Former Chief of Police, Metropolitan Nashville Police Department
Emily Reynolds
Senior Vice President, Government Relations, Tennessee Valley Authority
Shirley Zeitlin
CEO, Zeitlin & Company Realtors
James Fyke
Former Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, and Former Director, Metro Parks
Charles Davis
CEO, Charles Davis Foundation
Dr. Keith Churchwell
Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer, Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute
R. Milton Johnson
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, HCA
Richard Fulton
Former U.S. Representative and Former Mayor of Nashville
Walter Knestrick
Founder, Walter Knestrick Contractors, Inc.
Denny Bottorff
Managing General Partner, Council Capital
Patsy Bradley
Former Vice President, Broadcast Music, Inc.
Dr. Kevin Churchwell
CEO, DuPont Hospital for Children
Earl Swensson
Founder, Swensson Associates, Inc.
Marynell Meador
Former General Manager, Atlanta Dream (WNBA Franchise)
Dr. Antonio Gotto Jr.
Weill Cornell Medical College
Barry Scott
Actor and Producer
James Sasser
Former U.S. Senator
Dr. Judson Randolph
Retired Surgeon in Chief, Children’s Hospital, Washington, D.C.
Dr. T.B. Boyd, III
President and CEO, R.H. Boyd Publishing Company
Buzz Cason
President, Southern Writers Group
Charles Holliday Jr.
Former Chairman, Bank of America and Dupont
Perry E. Wallace Jr.
Professor of Law, Washington College of Law at American University
William P. Lawrence
Former Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy
H. Jackson Brown
Author, “Life’s Little Instruction Book”