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Nov 13, 2014, 10:18am CST Updated: Nov 13, 2014, 2:36pm CST

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Tim Barton, founder and executive chairman of Freightquote

Leslie Collins: Web Producer- Kansas City Business Journal; Email | Twitter | LinkedIn

Three Kansas City business leaders are being inducted into the Junior Achievement of Middle America's Greater Kansas City Business Hall of Fame.

Those being inducted include Tim Barton, founder and executive chairman of Freightquote; Gary Fish, founder and board chairman of Fishnet Security Inc.; and Leo Morton, chancellor of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. They will be honored Thursday during an induction ceremony at Kansas City Marriott Downtown.

Since 2000, nearly 40 area business leaders have been inducted into the hall of fame. This year's inductees were selected by a committee comprised of past laureates and business leaders.

Junior Achievement of Middle America is a nonprofit that educates kindergarten through 12th-grade students about entrepreneurship, financial literacy and work readiness.

Past inductees to the Greater Kansas City Business Hall of Fame

Year	Honoree	Position and company
2001	Joyce Hall	founder of Hallmark Cards Inc.
2001	Henry Bloch	co-founder of H&R Block Inc.
2001	Paul Henson	chairman of Sprint Corp. and Kansas City Southern Industries
2002	Ewing Marion Kauffman	founder of Marion Laboratories Inc. and owner of the Kansas City Royals
2002	William Dunn	chairman emeritus of JE Dunn Construction
2003	James Stowers Jr.	founder of American Century Investments
2003	William Deramus III	chairman of Kansas City Southern Industries Inc. (now Kansas City Southern Railway Co.)
2004	Lamar Hunt	founder of the American Football League and the Kansas City Chiefs franchise
2004	Ollie Gates	president of Gates Bar-B-Q
2005	James Andrews	co-founder of Universal Press Syndicate (now Andrews McMeel Universal)
2005	John McMeel	co-founder of Universal Press Syndicate (now Andrews McMeel Universal)
2005	R. Crosby Kemper Jr.	president of UMB Bank
2006	Neal Patterson	chairman and co-founder of Cerner Corp.
2006	Byron Thompson	chairman of Country Club Bank and vice chairman in charge of investment banking at UMB Bank
2006	Cliff Illig	vice chairman and co-founder of Cerner Corp.
2007	Gail Worth	owner of Gail's Harley-Davidson
2007	Bob Bernstein	co-founder of Bernstein-Rein
2007	Tom McDonnell	CEO of DST Systems Inc.
2008	Barnett Helzberg Jr.	chairman of Helzberg Diamonds
2008	John McDonald	founder of Boulevard Brewing Co.
2008	Michael Haverty	CEO of Kansas City Southern Railway Co.
2009	Carol Marinovich	former mayor and CEO of Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kan.
2009	John "Jack" Lockton III	founder of Lockton Co.
2009	Tom Bowser	CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City
2010	Clinton Burns	co-founder of Burns & McDonnell
2010	Robert McDonnell	co-founder of Burns & McDonnell
2010	Dan Hesse	CEO of Sprint Corp.
2010	Kenneth Baum	chairman of George K. Baum Group Inc.
2010	Mike Brown	co-founder of Euronet Worldwide Inc.
2011	E. Frank Ellis	CEO of Swope Health Services, Swope Community Builders, Applied Urban Research Institute and Swope Community Enterprises
2011	Miller Nichols	president of J.C. Nichols Co.
2011	Danny O'Neill	founder of The Roasterie Inc.
2012	Paul Bartlett Jr.	owner of Bartlett and Co.
2012	Gordon Beaham III	CEO of Faultless Starch/Bon Ami Co.
2012	Charles Garney	founder of Garney Cos. Inc.
2013	Jim Polsinelli	founding partner of Polsinelli PC
2013	David Fowler	managing partner of KPMG LLP
2013	Len Rodman	CEO of Black & Veatch

Leslie covers retail and restaurants, and creates Web stories and other online content.

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