The designation has been awarded to at least one community member each year since 1988.
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About Citizen of the Year
Every year since 1988, The Daily News has selected and honored a resident, and in some years more than one, as its Citizen of the Year. These are people who, through their personal or professional work, made the county a more prosperous, more livable, more civil, more civic or otherwise objectively better place.
Click here to see a complete list of past winners.
Meet the finalists for the 2024 Citizen of the Year.
Doyle was among 20 finalists nominated by members of the community and selected by a judging committee for the award, which the newspaper has granted annually since 1988.
Meet the finalists for the 2023 Citizen of the Year.
A University of Texas Medical Branch researcher received the Citizen of the Year award for his efforts in developing the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
Meet the finalists for the 2022 Citizen of the Year.
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