Who’s been on the C-VILLE 20 list?
2006 [20 for the moment]
- Sean Singletary, UVA basketball player
- John Grisham, novelist
- Bill Crutchfield, founder and CEO of Crutchfield
- Brian Bills, Charlottesville High School student and political activist
- Johnny St. Ours, filmmaker
- Kate Collier and Eric Gertner, owners of Feast!
- Abby Bellows, UVA student and activist for the “living wage” campaign
- John Burruss, Deputy Chief of Special Operations at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad
- Sean Tubbs, radio producer and creator of www.cvillepodcast.com
- Jay and Barbara Kessler, co-chairs of Piedmont Virginia Community College’s capital campaign
- Steven Blaine, attorney representing Biscuit Run developers
- Debbie Wyatt, defense attorney
- Richelle Claiborne, Live Arts performer
- Lloyd Burruss, personal trainer at ACAC
- JacLynn Dunkle, owner of Fellini’s #9
- Paul Brant, minister at the Church of the Incarnation
- Daniel Bluestone, UVA professor of architectural history and preservationist
- Greg Slater, top realtor
- Shannon Worrell, founding director of Light House, a youth media education center
- Coran Capshaw, manager of Dave Matthews Band and local developer
2005 [C-VILLE 20]
- Boyd Tinsley, violinist for Dave Matthews and local philanthropist
- Andrew Vaughan, restaurateur behind Java Hut, Orbit Billiards, Rapture, R2, and Atomic Burrito
- Mitch Van Yahres, retiree from General Assembly
- Sissy Spacek, celebrity resident active in community causes
- The Belmont Neighborhood Association, active neighborhood group
- Chris Friedman, owner of yoga/dance Studio 206
- The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which bought and preserved Brown’s Mountain near Monticello
- Charlottesville Downtown Foundation, founded Fridays After 5
- David and Elizabeth Breeden, artists who owned Biscuit Run Studios and Forest Lodge and put their 1,000-acre estate up for sale
- Jill Hartz and Richard Herskowitz, directors of UVA Art Museum and Virginia Film Festival respectively
- Gray Television, communications company that owns several local stations
- The Boombox, WNRN hip hop show
- Susan Payne and Lisa Ross, owners and operators of Payne Ross & Associates advertising firm
- Dave Leitao, new UVA men’s basketball coach
- Erika Viccellio, executive director of the Charlottesville Free Clinic
- Michael Gaffney, owner of Gaffney Homes builders, past president of the National Homebuilders Association, chairman of Rivanna Water & Sewer Authority, major investor in Sonabank
- Claire Kaplan, gay-rights activist
- M. Rick Turner, UVA Dean of African-American Affairs and head of local NAACP branch
- Gabriele Rausse, grafted wine-friendly European vines with roots of disease-tolerant native grapes for area wineries
- Jessica Nagle and Reid Nagle, owners of SNL Financial
2004 [Charlottesville 20 2004]
- Pastor Bruce A. Beard, helped Police Chief Timothy J. Longo foster a dialogue with the offended local African-American community
- Fred Boyce, banjo player and director of The Prism Coffeehouse
- John Conover, campaign manager for local Democrats
- Carol Pederson, director of Live Arts’ drama education program, dramaturge/teacher at UVA and Piedmont Virginia Community College
- Holly Hatcher, organizing director for Planned Parenthood
- Jim Haden, president and CEO of Martha Jefferson Hospital
- Rick Jones, runs Management Services Corporation (MSC Rentals), helped rewrite Charlottesville’s zoning code from 2000-2003, serves on City’s Housing Task Force, serves on Charlottesville’s Redevelopment and Housing Authority Board
- Rudy Padilla, owner of four successful Mexican restaurants
- Ted Norris, bartender at Zocalo
- Bob Gibson, reporter and editor for The Daily Progress
- Wendell Wood, developer and owner of United Land Corporation
- The McGuffey Artists, whose studios fill McGuffey Art Center
- Nancy Eismann, bike patrol officer for the Charlottesville Police Department who works the Downtown Mall and City Council meetings
- Patricia Kluge, local vineyard owner and restaurateur behind Fuel Co.
- Mark and Cynthia Lorenzoni, owners of Ragged Mountain Running Shop
- Bushman Dreyfus Architects, designers of modern buildings like the C3A building (City Center for Contemporary Arts)
- Dave Matthews Band, musicians and philanthropists
- John Lancaster and Laurel Hausler, founders of Nature Visionary Art (self-taught, outsider and Southern folk art)
- Philip Zelikow, UVA history professor and director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs
- Mark Giles, entrepreneur who helped launch Virginia National Bank
2003 [C-VILLE 20]
- Brad Eure, local owner of radio stations WINA, 3WV, and WQMZ
- Rev. Alvin Edwards, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church
- Amy Gardner, owner of Scarpa and Rock, Paper, Scissors
- Satyendra Huja, City Planner who proposed the Downtown Mall
- John Grisham, novelist and philanthropist
- Leah Stoddard, director of Second Street Gallery
- Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, peace activist organization
- William Lewis, owner of Duplex, Inc. copy shop, small-business counselor, TV co-producer and mentor to seven at-risk kids
- Aaron Hawkins, owner of Energy & Rhythm skate shop
- Daphne Latham, hair and makeup artist involved in Live Arts productions
- Coran Capshaw, Dave Matthews Band manager and local developer
- Dragana Katalina-Sun and Sun Da, proprietors of Marco & Luca dumpling shop
- Craig Littlepage, UVA Athletic Director
- Susan Donovan, regional director of the International Rescue Committee
- David Toscano, who’s overseeing development of the transfer station at the Downtown Mall’s east end
- Margie Shepherd, 8th-grade civics teacher and pro-teacher activist
- Sonia Cabell, 10th and Page neighborhood activist
- Pamela Peterson, owner of Sammy Snacks
- Charlottesville Downtown Foundation, which began charging $3 for Fridays After 5 concerts