University of the Ozarks President Richard L. Dunsworth, J.D., has been named as a finalist in the inaugural Arkansas Business’s 2024 Executive of the Year award.
President Dunsworth, entering his 12th year leading the Clarksville university, is one of five finalists in the publication’s state-wide Large Nonprofit Company category. The winner will be announced during the Arkansas Business Executive of the Year Awards ceremony on Nov. 5 in the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.
“I am honored to be nominated and included with such an incredible group of CEOs who represent organizations that are changing the landscape for service in Arkansas,” Dunsworth said. “To be included and recognized for the work of University of the Ozarks is humbling. We take seriously our role as an anchor organization in the city of Clarksville and the River Valley. It is an amazing feeling to live in a community that is looking to the future, and the University is blessed with amazing support from city and county governments and our alumni and friends around the world.”
The new program by Arkansas Business is an expansion of the former CFO of the Year awards, recognizing and honoring the region’s most outstanding senior executives and top leaders. Nomination forms were submitted to an independent panel of judges that met in late July to determine finalists and winners.
The other finalists in the Large Nonprofit Company category incudes, Brian Burton of Arkansas Foodbank, Melissa Dawson of The Centers, Benjamin Johnson of the United States Marshals Museum, and Gregory Wood of Hospice of the Ozarks.
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