Laureates By Year

1990
Clifford E. Baldridge
Claude K. Boettcher
Adolph Coors
Charles C. Gates
Carl A. Norgren
Gen. William Jackson Palmer

1991
Benjamin Harrison Eaton
John Evans
William D. Farr
Spencer Penrose
Jesse Shwayder

1992
Barney Ford
Lloyd King
Churchhill Owen
Otto Mears
David H. Moffat

1993
D.R.C. (Darcy) Brown, Jr.
William N. Byers
Roger D. Knight, Jr.
Henry M. Porter
Frank Ricketson, Jr.

1994
Chet Enstrom
Cecil Hernandez
Elrey B. Jeppesen
Nick Petry
Anna Petteys

1995
Helen Bonfils
Arthur Johnson
Bob Johnston
Ken Monfort
Aksel Nielsen

​1996
​William K. Coors
Bill Daniels
Emily Griffith
W. Clarence Kurtz

​1997
Philip Anschutz
Elwood Brooks
Dana H. Crawford
Daniel L. Ritchie
William Thayer Tutt

1998
Felipe Baca
Walter S. Cheesman
George E. Cranmer
Charles Gates, Jr.
Frank S. Hoag, Sr.
Mary Elitch Long
John A. Love
Robert Person, Sr.

1999
Sam Gary
Del Hock
Bob Magness
John Malone
LaRae Orullian
Russell T. Tutt

2000
Kathryn Hach-Darrow
Ed McVaney
Alan & Gerald Phipps
Richard & Edward Robinson
Horace Tabor

2001
Thomas Bailey
WIlliam Bent
Cortlandt Dietler
Walter A. Koelbel
Hannah Levy
William Dean Singleton

​2002
Morley Ballantine
Franklin & Joy Burns
Charles Hansen
Emmett Heitler
Joe Wagner​

2003
Lloyd Chavez
John W. Iliff
Roger Reisher
Peter Seibert, Sr.
Robert G. Tointon

​2004
Leonard C. Burch
Robert S. Everitt
Hirschfeld Family
William Hybl
Frederick R. Mayer
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2005
Charles Boettcher
Thor & Gerald Groswold
Kent & Caroline Rickenbaugh
Carl M. Williams

2006
Tom Gleason
A.V. Hunter
Harry T. Lewis
Dave & Gail Liniger
Morris Miller
Robert H. Rawlings

2007
Herb Bacon
Henry Cordes Brown
Al Cohen
John Fuller
Ralph Peterson

​2008
Samuel Addoms
Louis Clinton, Jr.
Harry Frampton
J.K. Mullen
William Vollbracht

​2009
Bruce Benson
Cathey Finlon
Loo Family
Sam Maynes
Jordon Perlmutter
Jack Vickers

​2010
Hank Bosco
Merle Chambers
Gart Brothers
Fred Hamilton
James Wallace

​2011
Charlie Gallagher
Walter Imhoff
Mary Ann Padilla
Micky Miller
Bob Young

2012
Peter Coors
Raymond Duncan
David & Renie Gorsuch
Jake Jabs
Landis Martin

2013
Temple Buell
Glenn Jones
Don Kortz
Ron Montoya
Rod & Beth Slifer

​2014
No inductees, 25th Anniversary Celebration

​2015
Pat Bowlen
Cannon Family
Klaus Obermeyer
Thomas Petrie
Bob & Joanna Sakata

2016
Ellie & George Caulkins
Anne Evans
Fulenwider Family
Larry A. Mizel
Enos Mills & F.O. Stanley
Ronald Williams​​

2017
Sue Anschutz-Rodgers
Joe Blake
Terry Considine​
Curtis Fentress
George & David Griffith
Ronald Moore​

​2018
Barbara Barnes Grogan
Gil E. & James M. Johnson
William B. Pauls
Richard C. Saunders
Joseph Kernan Weckbaugh
Philip & Adolph J. Zang
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2019
Thomas E. Congdon
Charles L. Cousins & Charles R. Cousins
John E. Freyer
Evan Makovsky
Walter P. Paepcke
John J. Sie

​2020
​​Jay Cimino
Frank E. Edbrooke
Gerald Gallegos
Larry Kendall
Charles "Chuck", Greg & Kent Stevinson
Judith B. Wagner

2021
​No inductees

2022
​Robert L. Albin
Clara Brown
Tim Gill
Robert Newman
Curt & Nancy Richardson
Donald L. Sturm

2023
Bill Berger
Mary Pat Link
Jay Precourt
Frederick Ross
Steve Schuck
Mark Smith

2024
​Rose Andom
​​Pat Hamill
John A. Ikard
​Rob Katz
​​Steve Schuck
​Elizabeth Hickok Robbins Stone

2025
​Walter Isenberg
Kim Jordan
Charles S. McNeil
​Anita Padilla-Fitzgerald
Winfield Scott Stratton
​Earl L. Wright

2026
​The Appel Family
Tweet Kimball
Buz Koelbel
Chuck Morris
Blair Richardson
George Solich