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Elliot Nelson
Year Inducted: 2026
Elliot Nelson is the founder and CEO of McNellie’s Group, a hospitality company with 20 concepts and 31 locations across Oklahoma and Arkansas. Over the past two decades, he has helped revitalize downtown Tulsa through food, hospitality, and community, building restaurants that have helped shape neighborhoods, create jobs, and strengthen local culture. Elliot opened his […]
Gailard Sartain
Year Inducted: 2026
Gailard Sartain was a proud Tulsan whose life reflected the humor, creativity and generosity of the city he called home. The son of Tulsa Fire Chief Gailard Sartain Sr., who served from 1956 to 1964, Gailard graduated from Will Rogers High School in 1962, where he was active in sports and art. He earned a […]
Ken Busby
Year Inducted: 2026
As “Cultural Czar of Northeast Oklahoma,” Ken Busby has spent more than three decades transforming how Tulsa and the state engage with artistic expression, education, historic preservation, and community development. A native Tulsan, Ken earned dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in Communication and French from the University of Tulsa, graduating magna cum laude and Phi […]
Reuben Gant
Year Inducted: 2026
Reuben Charles Gant was born in 1952 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to a family rooted in the city’s Black community. His mother, Amelia Marie Gant, was born in Gans, Oklahoma, and moved to Tulsa in the 1920s, shortly after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre devastated Greenwood, the district known as Black Wall Street. Growing up in […]
Rodger & Judy Randle
Year Inducted: 2026
Judy Randle was born in 1943 in Shreveport, Louisiana to parents from Minnesota and Iowa. She was the eldest of nine Otterstrom children: six brothers and two sisters. Despite having been born in the South, her cultural roots remained in the Midwest. Rodger’s maternal family came to Oklahoma in the Run of 1889, arriving in […]