Bart Hagerman Leadership Award
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The Bart Hagerman LeadershipAward is presented to a member of the graduating Leadership Bowling Green class each year. The award named for Bart Hagerman who served as the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce’s chamber executive from 1983 to 1986. Hagerman initiated the first leadership program for Chamber members in Kentucky while he worked as the assistant chamber executive at the Ashland (Ky.) Chamber of Commerce; that program became known as Leadership Ashland. He brought the program to Bowling Green when he accepted the chamber executive position, and he selected the first Leadership Bowling Green class in 1984.
| 2007 | Debby Peeples |
| 2006 | Bryan Finkbone |
| 2005 | Lisa Dunn |
| 2004 | Jay Lawless |
| 2003 | Doug Eberhart |
| 2002 | Sue Parrigin |
| 2001 | Leslie Watkins |
| 2000 | Kim Thomas |
| 1999 | Jennifer L. Wethington |
| 1998 | J. Rick Bard, Jr. |
| 1997 | Robbin M. Taylor |
| 1996 | Steve K. Cline |
| 1995 | John G. Deeb |
| 1994 | Gary P. West |
| 1993 | Ginger A. Cleary |
| 1992 | H.B. Clark, Jr. |
| 1991 | Dr. Lynn Chism |
| 1990 | Gene C. Crume |
| 1989 | Thomas A. Donnelly |
| 1988 | W.M. Biff Kummer |
| 1987 | James C. Barnett |
| 1986 | Joe Jakub |