The year 2000 the “Citizen of the Year Award” for the Chamber of Commerce was changed to “Lifetime Achievement Award” The below listing is the recipients of this prestigious award.
- 2000 Paul D. Spitler
- 2001 Joe J. Klabzuba
- 2002 W.M. Morrison
- 2003 Jo Sands
- 2004 Lawrence & Lorraine Sykora
- 2005 Cye Kahanek & Milo Foreman
- 2006 Vincent Coffey
- 2006 Harold Crawford
- 2007 Don R. Feltman & James Jezek
- 2008 Deborah Jean Morgan
- 2009 James Hargrove
- 2010 Reese Capron
- 2010 Sam D. Smith
- 2011 Maxine Kingsbury
- 2011 Roger Pritchett
- 2012 David Greer
- 2013 Carol Himle
- 2014 Roy Grissom
- 2015 James P. Parks II
- 2016 J.E. (Whitey) Sands
- 2017 Kathy K. Eby
- 2018 Maxine Dukes
- 2019 Dan L. Sealock