The Emory Greene Leadership Award, the highest award presented by the Association County Commissioners of Georgia, recognizes one elected county commissioner who best exemplifies outstanding commitment to his community and state.

 

The award is named in honor of the late Emory Greene, Chairman of the Bibb County Board of Commissioners and former President of the association. Emory was not only an outstanding leader in his home county, but he was also a statewide leader serving on a number of boards and commissions. He was always seeking ways to improve county government so that it could better meet the needs of the citizens in those communities.

 

• 1990    J.B. Jones, Lumpkin County
• 1991    Frank Moore, Bartow County
• 1992    Manuel J. Maloof, DeKalb County
• 1993    Gil Barrett, Dougherty County
• 1994    Jesse L. Brown, Taliaferro County
• 1995    Joyce R. Blevins, McDuffie County
• 1996    Joe Murray Rivers, Chatham County
• 1997    Larry G. Justice, Bibb County
• 1998    Connie Meier, Dougherty County
• 1999    Dr. Ira Hicks, Peach County
• 2000    Wendell Dawson, Oconee County
• 2001    Jim Parker, Chattooga County
• 2002    Glenda Battle, Decatur County
• 2003    F. Wayne Hill, Gwinnett County
• 2004    Joyce Evans, Lowndes County
• 2005    Benjamin Hayward, Mitchell County
• 2006    Clarence Brown, Bartow County
• 2007    James V. Ham, Monroe County
• 2008    Billy Croker, Polk County 
• 2009    Richard English Jr., Troup County