Purpose and Intent

To honor those prominent businesspersons in Palm Beach, Martin and Hendry Counties who have made an extraordinary contribution to their Florida community and who have earned the respect of that community.  

• To call attention to the American Free Enterprise System and to entrepreneurship as a value of our country and to its people in shaping their way of life. 

• To recognize the achievements of those who have shown, by their example, the importance of maintaining the free enterprise system as the American way of life.
  

• To encourage and inspire young people to make a career in business and contribute to their communities as those people entering the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame have done.

Two to four awards will be given annually in one or more of the following categories:

•  Contemporary/Retired

•  Contemporary/Active
•  Local Pioneer