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A Lifetime of Honors
T. Boone Pickens has amassed a number of awards during his storied career. Here is a selected list of those honors. See list.

 
 

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Selected T. Boone Pickens Honors and Awards
(Last updated May 13, 2009)

1971 U.S.A. Dept. of the Interior – Member of the National Petroleum Council
1971 Best Dressed Man in Amarillo
1977 Racquetball Champion – Championship Flight Tournament
1978 Financial World CEO of the Year
1979– 1987 Honored to be at the top of the Mesa Racquetball Ladder for 8 years
1980 Distinguished Alumni Award from Oklahoma State University
1982 Distinguished Fellow Award from Oklahoma State University
1983 Henry G. Bennett Distinguished Service Award from OSU
1985 Carnegie Mellon Crisis Man Award
1986 Honored Executive Award from University of Tennessee
1987 Outstanding Financial Executive Award from Financial Management Assoc.
1980s
  • Honored by Palo Duro High School for making a significant contribution to their school
  • Honored by Ronald McDonald House of Amarillo for his significant contributions to their project
  • Honored by St. Anthony’s Hospital for his significant contribution to the hospital
  • Honored by Harrington Cancer Center for his significant contributions to the center
1981 Houston Business Man of the Year Award from Stanford University Alumni  Association, Houston Chapter
1981 ADDY Award – Mesa Annual Report – First Place
1982 ADDY Award – Mesa Annual Report – Third Place
1982 Named Distinguished Fellow of the College of Arts & Sciences at Oklahoma State University
1985 Mesa won 1st Place in the National Fitness Classic
1985 Mesa awarded most Physically Fit Company in America by President’s Council on Physical Fitness
1985 Received the 1985 “Giant in the Industry” awarded  by The Future Business Leaders of America
1986 Mesa won 3rd Place in the National Fitness Classic
1986 Doctor of Laws conferred by Barry University, Miami Florida
1987 Honored by Ed Koch, Mayor of New York City
1987 Distinguished Entrepreneur for 1987 – College of Business Administration Texas A&M University
1987 Received the Outstanding Financial Executive Award from the Financial Management Association
1987 Columbia Free Enterprise Award from the Washington Institute for Policy Studies
1987 Distinguished Lecturer – Emory University School of Business
1988 Commendation from West Texas State University Student Senate
1988 Financial Management Association National Honor Society
1988 Honorary Doctorate of Public Service awarded by George Washington University
1988 Francis Marion College awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities
1988 Chosen to the Committee of Visitors at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
1989 Outstanding Service Award from Horace Man Middle School
1989 CEO of the Decade from Financial World
1989 Texas Man of the Year from Bill Clements
1989 Given Key to The City of Dallas
1989 Mesa was first Corporation to receive Accreditation by Institute of Aerobics Research
1989 Became an adviser to the National Campaign for a Drug Free America
1989 Oklahoma State University dedicated the T. Boone Pickens School of Geology in Stillwater, Oklahoma
1993 Earth Day Award
1993 Texas General Land Office presented TBP with Clean Air Texas Environmental Award
1993 Clean Across America Campaign – Honored in D.C. and Los Angeles for promoting natural gas
1993 Natural Gas Vehicle Coalition Achievement Award
2000 Honda Environmental Citizen Award
2000 Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition
2000 California State Assembly, Clean Cities Coachella Valley Region – Environmental Citizen for 2000
2000 Tucson Regional Clean Cities 2000, National Partner Award to ENRG
2000 Riverside County Board of Supervisors, Clean Cities Community accomplishment Award to ENRG
2000 Blue Sky Award from CALSTART to Pickens Fuel Corp.
2000 California State Senate Certificate of Recognition
2001 Pima County Arizona Clean Cities 2001, Annual Transportation Award to ENRG
2001 Clean Cities, Clean Air Challenge awarded to Pickens Fuel Corp.
2002 City of Amarillo “Golden Nail Award”
2002 U.S. Dept. of Energy, Clean Cities National Partner Awarded to ENRG
2002 Honorary Doctorate of Science Oklahoma State University
2002 Received the Corporate Environmental Leadership Award from INFORM
2003 Inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame
2004 Ranked 389 on Forbes magazine’s list of richest Americans
2005 Member - American Red Cross Chairman’s Advisory Board
2005 Inducted into Texas Business Hall of Fame
2005 Inducted into the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Inc.
2005 Ranked 207 on Forbes magazine’s list of richest Americans
2006 Listed as one of America’s Top Five Philanthropists by the Chronicle of
Philanthropy
2006 Named Outstanding Philanthropist by the Association of Fundraising Professionals at the 21st annual National Day Awards
2006 Ranked 103rd on Forbes magazine’s list of richest Americans
2007 Listed as the eighth biggest giver in the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s 2006 Top American Philanthropists list.
2007 Southwestern Medical Foundation presents the 2007 Charles Cameron Sprague Community Service Award to T. Boone and Madeleine Pickens.
2007 Recipient of Texas Woman's University's 2008 Virginia Chandler Dykes Leadership Award.
2008 Listed as the eighth biggest giver in the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s 2007 Top American Philanthropists list.
2008 Recipient of Park Cities Quail Unlimited Lifetime Sportsman Award.
2008 Association of Fundraising Professionals' Paschal Murray Award for Outstanding Philanthropist
2008 National Football Foundation Distinguished American Award
2008 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution Award for Corporate Citizenship
2008 Weather Channel’s Forecast Earth Hot List (10 Most Influential People or Entities in the Fight against Global Warming)
2008 Flak Jacket Award, “Best Spokesperson: Industry,” for being “the most intrepid, daring and verbally agile communicators”
2008 The Dallas Environmental Policy Examiner “Best Earth-Friendly Texan”
2008 Success magazine “Achiever of the Year Award”
2009 American Association of Political Consultants, “Public Affairs Campaign of the Year” for the Pickens Plan
2009 43rd annual Texas Legislative Conference “Texan of the Year”
2009 Franklin Institute’s Bower Award for Business Leadership
2009 Time magazine’s Time 100, the World’s Most Influential People
2009 American Wind Energy Association Industry Person of the Year “for his vision and leadership in moving the wind industry forward”
2009 AAPG Foundation’s 2009 L. Austin Weeks Memorial Medal
2009 American Security Council Lifetime Achievement Award in Public Service
2010 Oklahoma State Legislature declares May 13, 2010, “Boone Pickens Appreciation Day” in Oklahoma

 

 

 

 

  
 

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T. Boone Pickens is currently the chairman and CEO of BP Capital, which operates energy focused commodity and equity funds. He is also the largest shareholder in Clean Energy, the largest provider of vehicular natural gas (CNG and LNG) in North America with a broad customer base in the refuse, transit, shuttle, taxi, police, intrastate and interstate trucking, airport and municipal fleet markets.

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