2025 Cooperative Hall of Fame Inductees

Estelle Witherspoon helped transform economic reality for Black women artisans and their families in Wilcox County, Alabama. As founding member and Board President of the Freedom Quilting Bee (FQB), she oversaw its markets and sales for over 20 years until her retirement. Under her leadership, FQB was one of the 22 initial signatories and founding members of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives.

Lori Capouch has championed rural and frontier co-op development in North Dakota for over three decades at the North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives (NDAREC), the only statewide electric cooperative association in the nation to operate a cooperative development center.

Randy Lee spent nearly 50 years transforming natural food and co-op grocers in the U.S. starting with the Puget Consumer Cooperative (PCC), now known as PCC Community Markets and the nation’s largest consumer-owned grocer with 16 stores.

J. Tom Webb’s career has spanned industries and sectors in Canada and the United States of America ranging from grocery to IT, multistakeholder cooperatives to credit unions, and beyond. As the Founder of the MMCCU Program at Saint Mary’s University, his most impactful contributions are to co-op education.