Sheriff Chip Simmons was named the 2023 recipient of the God in Government Award at 46th Annual Governmental Prayer Breakfast on Saturday.
The breakfast was started by a group of ministers from the Greater Cantonment-Ensley Ministerial Alliance as a nondenominational, nonpolitical event to encourage moral and spiritual values in government.
Past awardees include:
Sheriffs David Morgan and Ron McNesby
Congressmen Earl Hutto, Joe Scarborough and Jeff Miller
State Reps. Dave Murzin, Holly Benson, Buzz Ritchie and Ray Sansom
Judges Lacey Collier, Ken Bell and Bill White
Tax Collectors Matt Langley Bell III and Janet Holley
Supervisor of Elections Bonnie Jones and David Stafford
Mayors of Pensacola-John Fogg, Century-Freddie McCall and Milton-R.L. Lewis.
Pensacola City Council Steve Del Gallo and Marie Young
ECUA Board members Wilson Robertson, Celestine Lewis and Larry Walker
Clerk of Courts Ernie Lee Magaha
County Commissioners Jim Williamson and Grover Robinson IV
State Attorney Curtis Golden
School Superintendent Malcolm Thomas
These names were collected by going through newspaper archives and are only a fraction of the 46 honorees.