2023 Fairman of the Year ~ Mike Zapata, North Georgia Agricultural Fair, with Jimmy Drew of Drew Expositions

Previous Recipients

1990 Arthur Springer       2005 Tommie Tyler

1991 Marvin Lorig           2006 John P. Webb, Jr.

1992 James Vining           2007 Ken Preston

1993 Charles Inman          2008 Darrell Colson

1994 Dale Thurman          2009 Larry Griffin

1995 Dot Bailey                2010 Joe Taylor

1996 Ted Pulsifer             2011 Mike Zapata

1997 Hugh Snell               2012 Skip Nichols

1998 J.R. “Jet” Russell     2013 Tod Miller

1999 Billy Becton             2014 Chris Hafer

2000 Larry Thomas          2015 Ted Lane

2001 Dominic Vivona      2016 Bud Owens

2002 Hilda Thomason     2017 Gerald Andrews

2003 Wendell Griffin        2018 Paul Smith

2004 Bill Wages               2019 Jimmy Drew

2020 Bill Jones 2022 Don Allen Garrett

2023 Mike Zapata