After 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.

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