SBJ's 40 Under 40 honorees selected for 2003

The judging is completed and Springfield Business Journal's 2003 class of 40 Under 40 honorees has been selected.

This year's winners are:

Shannon McMurdo, WoodStone Builders; Bruce Hartley, CoxHealth; Debra Shantz, John Q. Hammons Hotels; Julie Vanvig, KTTS; Jeff Shore, Elliott Robinson & Co. CPAs; Brian Hamburg, Hamburg & Lyons LLC; Jim Montgomery, Ozark York Inc.; Jeff Chronister, Ollis & Company; Rodney Nichols, Carnahan, Evans, Cantwell & Brown PC; Betsy Miller, Organize This; Andrea Letsch, Commerce Trust Company; Sandy Howard, SBC; Daniel Wooten, Neale & Newman LLP; Jerany Jackson, Site Design Studio; John Miller, Butler, Rosenbury & Partners; Don Angell, New York Life; Teresa Grantham, Askinosie and Grantham; Paula Dougherty, American Express Financial Advisors; Andrew Wells, Butler, Rosenbury & Partners; Blake Christian, DeWitt & Associates; Kirk Elmquist, Chardonnay; Gil Trout, UMB Bank; Barby Pohl, Great Southern Bank; Kathy Gross, McGregor Elementary School; Rick Naegler, Senior Recruiters Inc.; Mickey Moore, St. John's Foundation; Melissa Lawson, City Utilities of Springfield; Matt Sellmeyer, Schilling, Sellmeyer & Associates; J. Christopher Ball, Jack Ball & Associates, Architects PC; Cara Shaefer, City Utilities of Springfield; Trey Vance, McAlister's Deli; Rob Haik, H Design Group; Kimberly S. Hamm, BKD LLP; Nancy Bogart, Country Bunny Bath & Body; David Montgomery, Community Blood Center of the Ozarks; Kristi Hinton, Commerce Trust Company; Lisa Alexander, CoxHealth Foundation; Michele Cantrell, Carol Jones, Realtors; Vera Gibbons, Tritel Communications; and Bryan Morris, American Detection Specialists.

Judges were Benjamin Alexander, city of Springfield; Stacy Hammit, Carnahan-White; Alexis Brown, Great Game of Business; Teresa Chasteen-Calhoun, Great Southern Bank; and Jeff Frye, Jim Hutcheson Realtors. All the judges were previous 40 under 40 honorees.

Honorees will be the special guests at a special event to be held 6-9 p.m. April 24 at Wonders of Wildlife.

Tickets to the event are now on sale for $15 each or five tickets for $67.50. For more information, contact Debra Fickbohm, special events coordinator, at 417-831-3238, or by e-mail at dfickbohm@sbj.net.