Ohio Agricultural Council Hall of Fame Inductees

Each year, The Ohio Agricultural Council accepts nominations for individuals who have enhanced the agricultural community and have helped promote our industry.

Congratulations to our 2023 Inductees!

  • Kenneth D. Davis
  • Terry McClure
  • Thomas Menke
  • Dr. Don Sanders

Click here to learn more about the inductees.

2023 Hall of Fame application

Applications are due March 15.

2024 Ohio Agricultural Council Hall of Fame Nominations are NOW OPEN!

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The following prominent agricultural leaders have been inducted into the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame for their superior service, dedication, leadership and plentiful contributions to agriculture.

Search the list of inductees below and click on a name to visit the inductee profile and watch their video.

InducteeYear
Kenneth D. Davis
Terry McClure
Thomas Menke
Dr. Don Sanders
Ohio Agricultural Council Announces 2023 Hall of Fame Inductees
Dr. Leon W. Boucher
Steve Drake
Lisa Hamler-Fugitt
Duane L. Stateler
Monte Anderson, Ph.D.
Randy Brown
Tim Corcoran
Keith Stimpert
Leo L. Rummell
Glen H. Stringfield
Louis J. Taber
Carl R. Arnold
David W. Galehouse
Harry C. Ramsower
L. P. Bailey
Oscar B. Bradfute
John T. Brown
Howard M. Call
C. M. Ferguson
A. B. Graham
Perry L. Green
Henry P. Miller
Amos I. Root
A.P. Sandles
Charles E. Thorne
Norton S. Townshend
Allen Trimble
Joseph E. Wing
Harold Anderson
U. T. Cox
Leon M. Evans
Lawrence A. Kauffman
Forrest Ketner
Edward H. Knight
Murray D. Lincoln
Glen McIlroy
Joseph Oppenheim
Virgil Overholt
Charles Plumb
Martin L. Ruetenik
Arthur L. Smith
Howard J. Ziegler
Cosmas D. Blubaugh
Edmund Secrest
John A. Slipher
Samuel S. Studebaker
Bryce C. Browning
Benjamin Basil Brumley
George L. Cooley
Wheeler J. Welday
Charles A. Dambach
LeRoy Albert Demorest
F. Edward Seitz
Charles Julius Willard
Wilbur H. Bruner
Max M. Scarff
Lewis F. Warbington
Carlos Grant Williams
Lewis Charles Chadwick
John A. Davis
Earl W. McMunn
Douglas R. Stanfield
Wayne E. Brown
A. B. (Doc) Evans
Walter R. Krill
Thomas Scott Sutton
A.Z. Baker
Joel S. Coffey
John H. Dunlap
John D. Siebenthaler
Walter L. Bluck
Darwin R. Bryan
John M. Grierson
Warren G. Weiler
Max Drake
Charles S. Latchaw
Forest Loudenslager
Lottie M. Randolph
Joseph W. Fichter
Elden R. Groves
C. Clayton Terrell
Dwight Wise, Sr.
Leonard M. Bettinger
Martin Luther Howell
Thomas C. Kennard
Kenneth N. Probasco
Beatrice J. Cleveland
Richard H. Kellogg
Robert C. Miller
William H. Zipf
Ralph E. Bender
Harry A. Caton
Willard W. Ellenwood
Everett G. Royer
Roy M. Kottman
John Sawyer
Henry H. Schriver
John M. Stackhouse
Robert P. Hester
Ralph A. Howard
Suzanne Macino
Harold L. Porter
Robert O. Grieser
Cecil H. Robinson
Wilbur “Bill” Stuckey
Charles E. Wyckoff
Louis Bromfield
Wallace Barr
Dale T. Friday
D. C. Kiplinger
Lawrence E. Kunkle
Samuel C. Cashman
Floyd I. Lower
Jacob McQueen
Frank B. Sollars
Earl F. Kantner
John H. Klippart
James M. Lewis
Eugene C. Wittmeyer
James E. Dougan
Wilbur A. Gould
Fred H. Johnson
George G. Greenleaf
Edward Huber
Reuben R. Jones
Homer C. Price
Roy Battles
Shirley A. Brooks
Ralph Grimshaw
Oscar Share
Eugene V. Endres
George Gist, Jr.
Dr. Berlin W. Kagy
William E. Krauss
Floyd Heft
Earl Poling
James Utzinger
Merlin D. Woodruff
Bob Evans
Robert Gottesman
William J. Richards
Dean W. Simeral
Clarence Durban
Clifton Kerns (C.K.) Elliott
William D. Fulton
George W. Smidley
Carl S. Akey
Richard Dawson
Dr. Freeman S. Howlett
J. Gordon Riehl
Arnett J. Gordin
G. Edwin “Ed” Johnson
C. William Swank
Vernon L. Tharp
Richard H. L. Chichester III
Edward Oxley Elliott
George R. Johnson
Douglas J. Michael
Dr. Vern R. Cahill
Ralph Cobey
Pat Leimbach
James Patterson
James F. Cavanaugh
Charles Ingraham
Robert E. Jacobson
Robert D. Scherer
Richard P. Anderson
Gene Isler
Mark Roger List
John T. Mount
Herman Brubaker
William Henry Conklin
Fred H. Deering
Richard Hummel
L. Eugene Byers
William James Eyssen
Jack C. Foust
Bill Funderburg
Shirley Boyd
Wib H. Justi
John Stevenson
Esther McDanel Welch
Fred Yoder
Shirley Dunlap Bowser
Louis M. “Mick” Colvin
Bernard J. Scott
Clarence J. Cunningham
Neal F. Schirm
Robert W. Teater
John Weaver
Michael L. Wagner
Tom McNutt
Paul L. Wright
Dr. William L. Ingalls
Ohio Columbus (O.C.) Barber
Linus “Lenny” Losh
Tom Price
Bobby VanStavern
R. Craig Fendrick
James R. Helt
Donald H. Schriver
Wiliam Preston Stalter
A.I. (Irv) Bell
John C. Foltz
Andrew L. Stevens
Roy Allen Wallace
Fred L. Dailey
Guy R. Flora
Mary Lou Pfeiffer Saunway
Larry Vance
Edwin J. Carey
Thomas B. Turner
Lester Lynd
Charles Lifer
Bobby Moser
Donald Myers
Micki Zartman
Doug White
Bernie Heisner
William Hoewischer, Sr.
Don Ralph
John Watkins
William Haddad
Don Loudenslager
Roy Loudenslager
Gerald Mast
John C. (Jack) Fisher
J. Richard (Dick) Isler
Keith Smith
Tim White
Dwight B. Beougher
Jim Buchy
Opal Holfinger
Virgil L. Strickler
Dennis Bolling
Connie Cahill
Richard (Dick) Ricker
Donniella Winchell
Bryan Black
Charles A. “Al” Holdren
Lewis R. Jones
Robinson “Rob” W. Joslin
Wendell L. Waters
Larry R. Gearhardt
Dr. Tony Forshey
Joe Cornely

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