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The Daily News 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.

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