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HALL OF FAME MEMBERS
Each distillery plus the Kentucky Bourbon Festival may nominate candidates for induction into the Hall of Fame annually. The nominees are submitted to the Kentucky Distillers Association for selection. The successful candidates for induction have spent many years working in distillery operations or promoting Bourbon in the worldwide arena. Below is a list of past Hall of Fame Members.
 

2006
Carl Beam
William F. Friel
Michael R. Veach

2005
T. Jeremiah Beam
Col. Albert Bacon Blanton
Dale DeGroff
Pamela Wood Gover
John Hansell
Damian Riley-Smith
Elmore Sherman Family

2004
Charles R. DeSpain
Albert G. Geiser
Dixie P. Hibbs
Thomas R. McCarthy
H. Edward O'Daniel Jr.
Gary Regan
Gene Snyder

2003
Earl Beam
John Boswell
Sam K. Cecil
Paul Jones, Jr.
F. Paul Pacult
Ernest W. Ripey, Jr.
C. Orville Schupp

  2002
Colonel James B. Beam
George Garvin Brown
Oscar Getz
Ova O. Haney
Sylvester Ribaudo
T. William Samuels, Sr.
Gary, George, David, Ed and Mose Shapira
George T. Stagg
Colonel Frank B. Thompson
Julian P. "Pappy" Van Winkle

2001
Parker Beam
Frederick Booker Noe, Jr.
Lincoln Wesley Henderson
Elmer T. Lee
Fred McMillen
Jim Rutledge
Jimmy Russell
Bill Samuels

 
 
 
     
 
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