Meet the finalists for the 2022 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.
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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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Meet the finalists for the 2020 Citizen of the Year. The winner was revealed in a livestream on Thursday, Aug. 20. You can rewatch the broadcast here.
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