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Meet the finalists for the 2023 Citizen of the Year.
Congratulations to our 2023
Citizen of the Year finalists!
- Chris Armacost, Hitchcock
- Renae Bentley, Galveston
- Jennifer Burnett, Dickinson
- Clay Burton, Hitchcock
- Robyn Bushong, Galveston
- Louis Decker, Dickinson
- Josh Dorrell, Galveston
- Patrick Doyle, Texas City
- Shone Evans, Dickinson
- Bonnie Farmer, Galveston
- Priscilla Files, Galveston
- Doryn Glenn, Galveston
- Lee Grumbles, Galveston
- Katherine Herrin-Keith, La Marque
- Dedrick Johnson, Texas City
- Betty Massey, Galveston
- Angela McGhee, Santa Fe
- Rodger Rees, Galveston
- Joanie Steinhaus, Galveston
- Geny White, Manvel
The finalists will be honored and the Citizen of the Year revealed during a special event on May 24 in the Davidson Ballroom at The Tremont House in Galveston.
All 20 finalists will be featured in a special publication to be inserted in The Daily News on May 23, the day before the event.
About Citizen of the Year
Every year since 1988, The Daily News has selected and honored a resident, and in some years more than one, as its Citizen of the Year. These are people who, through their personal or professional work, made the county a more prosperous, more livable, more civil, more civic or otherwise objectively better place.
Click here to see a complete list of past winners.
Meet the finalists for the 2022 Citizen of the Year.
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“It’s been transformative. I’ve learned to be more patient, more thoughtful and more ruthless when I’ve had to be." — Daily News 2021 Citizen of the Year Dr. Philip Kaiser, on the year of the pandemic
Meet the finalists for the 2021 Citizen of the Year.
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The late Dr. William M. Johnson, longtime garden columnist, receives The Daily News' Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Community champion and Galveston native Barbara "BJ" Herz was named The Daily News' Citizen of the Year for 2020 on Thursday evening.
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