Portsmouth First Citizen Recipients
For eighty-seven years, the citizens of Portsmouth have honored an individual for his or her contributions to the Portsmouth community by naming that individual Portsmouth’s First Citizen.
RADM Mark A. Hugel, 2024
Dwight C. Schaubach, 2023
Eric Sasser, 2022
Judy Boyce Perry, 2018
Ross Cherry, 2017
John G. Hatcher, 2016
Lynn Mapp Wiggins, 2015
Richard K. Huneycutt, 2014
Richard E. H. Wentz, 2013
W. Carroll and Gloria M. Creecy, 2012
CDR R. Malcolm Fortson, III, 2011
Robert T. Williams, 2010
Donald W. Comer, Jr., 2009
*Albert J. Taylor, 2008
*James W. Holley, III, 2007
William H. Kline, Jr., 2006
*Arthur A. Kirk, M.D., 2005
Nancy Glisson Wren, 2004
R. Scott Morgan, 2003
Diane Pomeroy Griffin, 2002
Michael J. Blachman, 2001
David R. Tynch, 2000
G. Robert Aston, Jr., 1999
Horace S. Savage, Jr., 1998
*Ernest F. Hardee, 1997
Junius H. Williams, Jr., 1995
Maury Wise Cooke, 1993
Morton V. Whitlow, 1992
Herbert A. Haneman, Jr., 1991
Paul Ward Robinett, Jr., 1989
W. Ashton Lewis, 1988
*John Paul Conwell Hanbury, 1985
Bradford L. Cherry, 1984
*Peter Eustis, 1983
*Emile S. Sayegh, M.D., 1982
*RADM Jamie Adair, USN, Ret., 1981
*Robert William Wentz, Jr., 1980
*Daniel W. Duncan Ph. D., 1979
*George Delman Eastes, 1978
*Frank Langley Kirby, 1977
*Emily Nichols Spong, 1976
*P. Stockton Fleming, 1975
Herbert K. Bangel, 1974
*The Hon. Richard J. Davis, 1973
*Paul Curtis Stokley, 1972
*Mearl A. Kise, Ph. D., 1971
*Robert Murdaugh Reed, 1970
E. Saunders Early, Jr., 1969
*Hon. John Ashton MacKenzie, 1968
*Dr. Robert Monroe Campbell, 1967
*Wilfred Fleming Magann, 1966
*John Tydings Nix, 1965
*Lester Lloyd Knight, 1964
*George T. Ewell, 1963
*Russell Mills Cox, M.D., 1962
*Richard F. Wood, 1961
*Arthur Lee Cherry, 1960
*Fred Beazley, 1959
*Arthur J. Lancaster, 1958
*Rt. Rev. William A. Brown, 1957
*Harry A. Hunt, 1956
*O.B. Woolridge, 1955
*J. Roy Rodman, 1954
*Rev. Ernest K. Emurian, 1953
*Lewis C. Warren, 1952
*The Hon. Porter Hardy, Jr., 1951
*Abner B. Hill, 1950
*Maywood O. Lawrence, 1949
*Sol Fass, 1948
*Leslie T. Fox, 1947
*Hon. Lawrence W. I’Anson, 1946
*Thomas Alva Willett, 1945
*George T. McLean, 1944
*RADM Felix X. Gygax, USN, 1943
*Frank D. Lawrence, 1942
*Rt. Rev. Msgr. F. Harold Nott, 1941
*Edward W. Maupin, Jr., 1940
*John A. Morris, 1939
*Hon. Norman R. Hamilton, 1932
*Denotes a First Citizen who has passed away but still remembered for their legacy of service and philanthropy to the City of Portsmouth.