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# Who's New at Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame
- URL: https://bevnews.net/whos-new-at-kentucky-bourbon-hall-of-fame/
- Published: 2023-09-13T23:49:42.000Z
- Updated: 2023-09-13T23:49:42.000Z
- Author: Joel Whitaker

The **Kentucky Hall of Fame** inducted eight new honorees as it toasted "the lives, legacies and journeys of those who have forever changed our timeless craft and played a major role in building a stronger Kentucky for generations to come." They are:

- **Dr. Jerry O. Dalton**, retired Master Distiller, Jim Beam. A 22-year industry veteran, Dalton worked as a chemist for Barton Brands before moving to Jim Beam where he spent 12 years, finishing out his career as Master Distiller succeeding the legendary Booker Noe.
- **The late Mrs. Dixie Sherman Demuth**, Owner, Dixie’s Elbow Room. A bar owner in the 1950s, Demuth took her fight for women’s rights to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, which overturned a 200-year-old law to allow women to serve and enjoy alcohol in a public bar.
- **Greg Fischer**, former Mayor of Louisville, Ky. As a three-term mayor, Fischer is hailed for coining and promoting “Bourbonism,” a burgeoning hospitality movement focused on Louisville’s leading position in the Bourbon, tourism and local food scenes.
- **Pete Kamer**, Owner, Distillery Engineering. After retiring from a 45-year industry career with Seagram’s and Barton Distillery, Kamer started a leading consulting business that has helped launch dozens of distilling companies, including many Kentucky craft distilleries.
- **Joseph J. Magliocco**, President & CEO, Michter's Distillery. Celebrating an industry career that spans 40 years, Magliocco resurrected the storied Michter’s brand and brought it to Kentucky, helping to lead the Whiskey Row renaissance in downtown Louisville.
- **Dean Watts**, Former Nelson County Judge-Executive. As the longest serving judge-executive in Nelson County history, Watts created a hospitable economic environment for the industry to flourish and welcomed several new distilleries during his 28 years in office.
- **Chester ‘Chet’ Zoeller**, Author, Historian and Co-founder, Jefferson’s Bourbon. After years of research, Zoeller wrote *Bourbon in Kentucky*, a comprehensive publication of his findings, cataloging nearly 1,000 distillers and brands across the Bluegrass State.
- **Trey Zoeller**, Founder, Whiskey Maker & Chief Strategist, Jefferson’s Bourbon. Since founding Jefferson’s Bourbon in 1997, Trey has developed dozens of award-winning Bourbon and rye expressions using unique blending and maturation techniques.

Candidates are nominated each year by the **Kentucky Distillers Association** and its member distilleries. A blue-ribbon committee – including all living recipients of the Parker Beam Lifetime Achievement Award – painstakingly reviews and selects applicants in three categories: Industry, Roll of Honor and Lifetime Achievement.