Honoring Distinguished Leaders of the Florida Citrus Industry
Friday, April 2, 2027
Florida Southern College
George Jenkins Field House
The Florida Citrus Hall of Fame was established in 1962 to pay tribute to those who have made outstanding contributions to the Florida citrus industry. Seventeen nominees were inducted the first year and members of the industry have been inducted each year since. A committee (listed below) representing various facets of the industry and all production regions of the state selects the recipients in January of each year and the induction takes place each March.
The Florida Citrus Hall of Fame entered into a partnership with Florida Southern College to honor the history of our inductees and make that history accessible to the public. The Sarah D. and L. Kirk McKay, Jr. Archives Center on the campus of Florida Southern houses the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame wall display along with the State of Florida Citrus Archives, the Florida Southern College Archives, the Governor Lawton M. Chiles, Jr. Center for Florida History, the Frank Lloyd Wright collection, and the Ruth K. and Charles T. Thrift, Jr. Florida United Methodist Heritage Center.
Florida Southern College students and faculty have developed this website and will continue to research and update the information on all of the Citrus Hall of Fame inductees. A permanent endowment fund has been established for future Citrus Hall of Fame projects and student fellowships to maintain the wall display and website.
The partnership between the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame and Florida Southern College is a unique opportunity that will enable people from throughout the world to learn about the men and women who have made the Florida citrus industry what it is today.
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We hope you will join us in supporting the accomplishments of these industry leaders and our quest to make those accomplishments known to future generations for many years to come. Thank you for visiting and we hope you enjoy your time with our citrus pioneers!
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For more information, to donate citrus memorabilia and antique artifacts, or to receive an invitation to Florida Citrus Hall of Fame events, please contact Kristi Sheffield Joyner at 863-221-4300 or KristiJ@FlCitrusMutual.com,
The Florida Citrus Hall of Fame Fellowship Program was created in 2008 at Florida Southern College (FSC), in Lakeland, to help describe, preserve and digitize citrus documents while creating an engaged learning environment for students.
The Florida Citrus Hall of Fame Fellowship Program was created in 2008 at Florida Southern College (FSC), in Lakeland, to help preserve and digitize citrus collections and memorabilia for inclusion in the State of Florida Citrus Archives held by the McKay Archives. This fellowship program is an opportunity for students to engage with collections about the citrus industry.
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Each student is assigned a specific job during their fellowship term, ranging from handling intake of materials to scanning and appropriately cataloging the materials for research purposes and creating special displays.
The Hall of Fame currently sponsors five permanent fellowship opportunities each semester and one summer fellowship. Four of the fellowships are named after late Hall of Fame members, Frank S. Bouis, John M. Kennedy, Sr. and D. Victor Knight, Sr., along with a fellowship named after the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame. Students admitted to the program are typically in their junior or senior year and qualify for the program through interviews with faculty members from the Library and Archives. They are supervised by the FSC college archivist in the McKay Archives Center.
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For more information please contact Kristi Sheffield Joyner at 863-221-4300 or KristiJ@FlCitrusMutual.com,
QUENTIN ROE
PRESIDENT
FRANK HUNT, III
VICE PRESIDENT
LINDSAY RALEY
TREASURER
BRENDA BURNETTE
SECRETARY
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
George Hamner
Matt Joyner
Quentin Roe
Callie Walker
Jim Snively
Peter Chaires
George Streetman
David Wheeler
David Crumbly
Steven Callaham
Lindsay Raley
Bobby Sexton
John Veldhuis
David Evans
Dan Richey
