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Welcome to the 2020 Amarillo Pioneer of the Year ballot!
In 2016, the Amarillo Pioneer of the Year Award was created with a focus on recognizing and honoring the men and women who have had a significant impact on the Amarillo community over the past year. Since 2016, our readers have selected Randy Burkett, Renea Dauntes, Kip Billups, and Dacia Anderson as the people who have had the biggest impact on Amarillo in their respective years.
Now, it's your turn to decide who should be named the Pioneer of the Year for 2020.
Over the past several weeks, we have accepted our readers' nominations for who should be honored as our Pioneer of the Year and in other categories recognizing the best businesses and organizations serving Amarillo. Using the nominations for our readers, we present our ballot for this year!
First, we would like to ask our readers to note that we received nominations for hundreds of Amarillo citizens and businesses this year. However, we capped our nominations this year at 15 for Pioneer of the Year. For those who do not see their favorite selection as a choice on this year's ballot, we have provided a write-in so you can honor your favorite community servants and leaders.
Additionally, due to the overwhelming number of nominations for local businesses and organizations, we have decided to allow our readers to write-in their favorites for each business and organization category instead of capping each category at a select 3-5 nominees.
The voting schedule for this year's Pioneer of the Year election will run as follows:
November 16 - Voting Opens
December 18 - Voting Closes at 11:00pm CST
December 23 - Winners Announced
We appreciate all of our readers' wonderful nominations and we thank you for taking the time to vote!
- Amarillo Pioneer Team