JA Atlanta Business Hall of Fame Laureate Society
The JA Atlanta Business Hall of Fame honors the remarkable men and women who have strengthened Atlanta's economy and aided in its growth to become the world-renowned city it is today.
Ivan E. Allen
Ivan Allen-Marshall
Company
Asa G. Candler
The Coca-Cola Company
Alonzo F. Herndon
The Atlanta Life
Insurance Company
Joel Hurt
Entrepreneur
Richard H. Rich
Rich’s Department Store
R.E. “Ted” Turner
Turner Broadcasting
System, Inc.
Robert W. Woodruff
The Coca-Cola Company
Collett E. Woolman
Delta Air Lines
Ivan Allen, Jr.
Ivan Allen-Marshall
Company
Alfred Austell
First National
Bank of Atlanta
Jesse Hill Jr.
The Atlanta Life
Insurance Company
Heman E. Perry
Standard Life
Insurance Company
John C. Portman, Jr.
Portman Companies
John Adams Sibley
The Trust Company
Ernest Woodruff
The Trust Company
James M. Cox
Cox Enterprises
Ira H. Hardin
Hardin Construction
Company, LLC
Harvey Mathis
Taylor and Mathis
L.D. Milton
Citizens Trust Bank
Emmaline Norman
Harry Norman & Associates
L.W. “Chip” Robert
Robert and Company
Herman J. Russell
H.J. Russell & Company
Mack Taylor
Taylor and Mathis
I.M. Weinstein
National Service Industries
Owen Funderburg
Citizens Trust Bank
Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr.
Beers Construction Company
Roberto C. Goizueta
The Coca-Cola Company
Margaret Kennon Lupo
Mary Mac’s Tea Room
James Tate
Father of Black
Business in Atlanta
E.A. “Ed” Isakson
Northside Realty
Mills B. Lane, Jr.
C&S Bank
Wesley Redding
The Atlanta Loan
and Trust Company
Erwin Zaban
National Service
Industries
Donald R. Keough
The Coca-Cola Company
Bernard Marcus
The Home Depot Company
Andrew Young
GoodWorks
International, Inc.
John L. Clendenin
BellSouth Corporation
Johnnetta B. Cole, Ph.D.
Spelman College
Harold Brockey
Rich’s Department Store
Oz Nelson
United Parcel Service
Dan Sweat
Central Atlanta Progress
A.W. “Bill” Dahlberg III
Southern Company
William B. Hartsfield
Mayor of Atlanta
Maynard H. Jackson
Jackson Securities Inc.
S. Truett Cathy
Chick-fil-A, Inc.
Betty L. Siegel, Ph.D.
Kennesaw State University
Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.
Morehouse School
of Medicine
Margaret Mitchell
Author of Gone with the Wind
William Porter Payne
Premiere Technologies
Hank Aaron
Baseball Legend, Businessman
John E. Aderhold
Aderhold Properties
Arthur M. Blank
The Home Depot Company
Juanita Powell Baranco
Baranco Automotive Group
J.B. Fuqua
The Fuqua Companies
John Wieland
John Wieland Homes
and Neighborhoods
Robert H. “Bob” Moore
Publix Super Markets, Inc.
Alicia Phillip
The Community Foundation
for Greater Atlanta
Carl Ware
The Coca-Cola Company
Sunny Park
General Building Maintenance
Carl V. Patton
Georgia State University
Alana Shepherd
Shepherd Center
Philip H. Alston, Jr.
Alston & Bird, LLP
Nathaniel H. Bronner, Sr.
Bronner Brothers
A.D. “Pete” Correll
Georgia-Pacific Corporation
F. Duane Ackerman
BellSouth
Sidney Kirschner
NSI & Northside Hospital
Ann Cramer
IBM
Shirley Franklin
Mayor of Atlanta
R. Charles Loudermilk, Sr.
Aaron Rents, Inc.
Thomas W. Dortch, Jr.
TWD, Inc.
100 Black Men of America
Jenny Pruitt
Atlanta Fine Homes
Sotheby’s International Realty
Samuel A. Williams
Metro Atlanta Chamber
Harold Dawson Sr.
The Dawson Company
Spurgeon Richardson
Atlanta Convention
and Visitors Bureau
René Diaz
Diaz Foods
Stan Kasten
Former President of
The Atlanta Braves
J. Veronica Biggins
Hodge Partners
Doug Hertz
United Distributors, Inc.
John P. Imlay, Jr.
Imlay Investments, Inc.
Ralph de la Vega
AT&T Mobility
Egbert L.J. Perry
The Integral Group LLC
Carol B. Tomé
The Home Depot Company
Donna W. Hyland
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
E. Jenner Wood, III
SunTrust Bank, Georgia/
North Florida Division
Ken Bernhardt
Georgia State University
Dennis Lockhart
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Hala Moddelmog
Metro Atlanta Chamber
Paul Bowers
Georgia Power
Larry Gellerstedt
Cousins Properties
Lisa Borders
Women's National
Basketball Association
Bill Rogers
SunTrust Bank
Frank Blake
The Home Depot Company
Dan T. Cathy
Chick-fil-A, Inc.
Roz Brewer
Starbucks Corporation
John Brock
Coca-Cola European Partners
Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry Studios
Jeffrey Sprecher
Intercontinental Exchange
& New York Stock Exchange
Dr. Mark P. Becker
Georgia State University
Ernest Greer
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Ed Bastian
Delta Air Lines
Kathy Waller
The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta Committee for Progress
Shan Cooper
Journey Forward Strategies
Terry McGuirk
Braves Holdings
* Listed by induction year