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Class of 2024<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Keith Luedeman, goodmortgage.com<\/p>\n

Bob Salvin, Salvin Dental Specialties, Inc.<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2023<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Jennifer Appleby, Wray Ward<\/p>\n

Louis Foreman, Enventys<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2022<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Tana Greene, MyWorkChoice<\/p>\n

Michael Praeger, AvidXchange<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2020<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Doug Lebda, LendingTree<\/p>\n

Ed Weisiger, Sr. & Ed Weisiger, Jr., CTE<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2019<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Bill Barnhardt, Barnhardt Elastic Corp.<\/p>\n

John Crosland, Jr., Crosland (posthumously)<\/p>\n

Dee & Rick Ray, Raycom Sports<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2018<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Stuart & Alan (posthumously) Dickson, Ruddick Corporation<\/p>\n

Roger Milliken, Milliken & Company (posthumously)<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2017<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Erskine Bowles, Bowles Hollowel Connor & Co. and Carousel Capital<\/p>\n

Charles W. Coker, Sonoco Products Company<\/p>\n

Harvey B. Gantt, Gantt Huberman Architects<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2016<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Ric Elias, Red Ventures<\/p>\n

Rick Hendrick, Hendrick Automotive Group<\/p>\n

Anita G. Zucker, The InterTech Group, Inc.<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2015<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Charles A. Cannon, Cannon Mills (posthumously)<\/p>\n

David H. Jones, Peak 10<\/p>\n

Patricia & B. D. (posthumously) Rodgers, Rodgers Builders<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2014<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Bank of America<\/p>\n

Temple Sloan, Jr., General Parts International, Inc.<\/p>\n

Craig Wall, Sr. & Craig Wall, Jr., Canal Industries (posthumously)<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2013<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Joe L. Dudley, Sr. & Eunice M. Dudley, Dudley Products, Inc.<\/p>\n

Francis M. Hipp, Liberty Corporation (posthumously)<\/p>\n

Charles M. Shelton & R. Edwin Shelton, The Shelton Companies<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2012<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

George Dean Johnson, Jr., Johnson Management<\/p>\n

Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Pace Communications<\/p>\n

Joan & Robert Zimmerman, Southern Shows, Inc.<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2011<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Herman Blumenthal, Radiator Specialty and NC Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (posthumously)<\/p>\n

Wayland H. Cato, Jr., The Cato Corporation<\/p>\n

Jim Goodnight, SAS<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n

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Class of 2010<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

Ralph Ketner, Food Lion<\/p>\n

Leon Levine, Family Dollar Stores<\/p>\n

Jerry Richardson, Spartan Foods and the Carolina Panthers<\/p>\n\n <\/component><\/component> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n \n

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Founding Class<\/div>\n <\/h2>\n

William Henry Belk, Belk, Inc. (posthumously)<\/p>\n

James Edgar Broyhill, Broyhill Furniture Industries (posthumously)<\/p>\n

Thomas H. Davis, Piedmont Airlines (posthumously)<\/p>\n

James B. Duke, Duke Power Co. (posthumously)<\/p>\n

J. Reynolds, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (posthumously)<\/p>\n

Leroy Springs, Springs Cotton Mills (posthumously)<\/p>\n\n <\/component> <\/div>\n

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