Ambassadors

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz - Mr. South Texas

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz - Mr. South Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz - Mr. South Texas

Martha Washington & George Washington

Martha Washington & George Washington Martha Washington & George Washington

Nydia Sanchez Weathers & Bob Weathers

Princess Pocahontas & Chief Earth Warrior

Princess Pocahontas & Chief Earth Warrior Princess Pocahontas & Chief Earth Warrior
Taylor Jazz Salinas & Adolfo Romero

Eduardo H. Alvarez
2026 Poster Artist

Eduardo H. Alvarez 2026 Poster Artist
Eduardo H. Alvarez

Red Men Spirit
Award Recipient

Red Men Spirit Award Recipient Red Men Spirit Award Recipient
Gabriel Castillo

IBC/Commerce Bank Youth Parade Under the Stars

IBC? Commerce Bank Youth Parade IBC/Commerce Bank Youth Parade Under the Stars
Mary Help of Christians School

Budweiser Washington's Birthday Parade

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 9194 Budweiser Washington's Birthday Parade
The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 9194z

Abrazo Children, Representing the United States

Abrazo Children, Representing the United States Abrazo Children, Representing the United States
Minnie Dora Rodriguez & Dylan Valentine Puig

Abrazo Children, Representing Mexico

Abrazo Children, Representing Mexico Abrazo Children, Representing Mexico
Maria Fernanda Lopez & Eric Eugenio Galindo

Former Mr. South Texas Recipients

Recent Honorees (2025–2000)

2025 – David Winfield Killam
2024 – Porter S. Garner III
2023 – Carroll E. Summers Jr. †
2022 – Sister Maria Luisa Vera & Sister Rosemary Welsh
2021 – Sister Maria Luisa Vera & Sister Rosemary Welsh
2020 – Ambassador Martha Elena Federica Barcena Coqui
2019 – Governor Greg Abbott
2018 – Blackstone Dilworth
2017 – Douglas G. Macdonald
2016 – Norbert Dickman
2015 – U.S. Senator John Cornyn
2014 – Renato Ramirez
2013 – Chancellor John Sharp
2012 – Ray M. Keck, III, Ph.D.
2011 – TX Speaker Joseph Strauss, III
2010 – Dennis E. Nixon
2009 – Joe LaMantia, Jr.
2008 – U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar
2007 – Lt. Governor David H. Dewhurst
2006 – Hank E. Sames, III
2005 – U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
2004 – U.S. Representative Henry Bonilla
2003 – Ricardo G. Cigarroa, M.D.
2003 – Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D.
2002 – Gary G. Jacobs
2001 – H.B. Zachry, Jr.
2000 – Judge George P. Kazen

Historical Honorees (1999–1952)

1999 – State Senator Judith Zaffirini, Ph.D.
1998 – John P. Howe, M.D.
1997 – Governor George W. Bush
1996 – Charles E. Butt
1995 – Vidal M. Treviño
1994 – Governor Ann W. Richards
1993 – Lt. Governor Bob Bullock
1992 – Secretary Robert A. Mosbacher
1991 – Judge Salomon Casseb, Jr.
1990 – Charles A. LeMaistre, M.D.
1989 – U.S. Representative Eligio de la Garza
1988 – U.S. Senator Phil Gramm
1987 – Mayor Henry Cisneros, Ph.D.
1986 – Max A. Mandel
1985 – Theodore Scibienski
1984 – Governor Mark W. White
1983 – U.S. Senator John Tower
1982 – Lt. Governor William P. Hobby
1981 – Joaquin G. Cigarroa, Jr., M.D.
1980 – Ambassador Robert Krueger
1979 – U.S. Representative Abraham Kazen
1978 – Radcliffe Killam
1977 – Attorney General John J. Hill
1976 – Randolph Lee Clark, M.D.
1975 – Gladys S. Porter
1974 – Thomas C. Frost, Jr.
1973 – Ambassador Anne Armstrong
1972 – Darrell Royal
1971 – U.S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr.
1970 – Leonides Cigarroa, M.D.
1969 – Ambassador Edward Clark
1968 – H.B. Zachry
1967 – Governor Dolph Briscoe, Jr.
1966 – Herbert C. Petry, Jr.
1965 – Mayor J.C. Martin, Jr.
1964 – Governor John B. Connally
1963 – Judge Reynaldo Garza
1962 – Ambassador Thomas C. Mann
1961 – Lt. General Robert W. Harper
1960 – U.S. Representative Joe M. Kilgore
1959 – Bishop M.S. Garriaga
1958 – Ernest H. Poteet, Ph.D.
1957 – Robert J. Kleberg
1956 – O.W. Killam
1955 – Mayor Albert Martin
1954 – Mary Elizabeth Butt
1953 – Lon C. Hill
1952 – Frank C. Huntress

Former Abrazo Children

Representing the United States / Representing Mexico

2025 – Zelie Evangelina Martinez & Rodrigo Neira | Maria Fernanda Garcia & Tiago X Fernández
2024 – Scarlett Emma Gonzalez & Jackson Alexander Peregoy | Estefania Ramirez Richer & Jorge Eduardo Gutierrez Gonzalez
2023 – Mila Fernanda Garcia & Francisco Marcel Gonzalez Flores | Andressa Maria Vazquez Urteaga & Jeremiah Cabrera
2022 – Olivia Madison Palumbo & Michael Anthony Villalon | Valentina Gonzalez De Anda & Joaquín Barragán Garza
2021 – Olivia Madison Palumbo & Michael Anthony Villalon | Valentina Gonzalez De Anda & Joaquín Barragán Garza
2020 – Natalia Aileen Santos & Oscar Omar Martinez III | Vera Rocha Gordillo & Sebastian Palos
2019 – Riley Olivia Peregoy & Daniel B. Hastings IV | Miranda Montes Mendoza & Jorge Emiliano Perez Garza
2018 – Sofia Gonzalez & Liam Anderson Haynes | Yvette Garcia Bazan & Tomas Villegas Tomko
2017 – Ella Alessandra Gonzalez & William Joseph Palumbo III | Cassandra Cabrera Zamudio & Mateo Canamar Morales
2016 – Anna Victoria Herbig & Michael Casso | Claudina Patricia Vazquez Gonzalez & Juanmario Barragan
2015 – Valeria Lucia Montemayor & John Roman Galo | Alexandra Carriedo Villarreal & Franco Garza Carmona
2014 – Isabella Gonzalez & Frank Riley Puig | Gisella Rosa Carranza Gutierrez & Eduardo Andres Lerma Bazan
2013 – Isabella Gibson & Edward Henry Maddox | Maria Resendez Rodriguez & Emilio Lerma Garza
2012 – Jordann Paris Hale & Ryan Montgomery Moore | Analia Mounetou Monroy & Alberto Perez Vazquez
2011 – Katarina Garcia & Evan Valls | Paloma Chapa Mendoza & Ernesto Knosel Reina
2010 – Madison Grace Rosales & Stephen Cole Weathers | Leticia Carolina Garcia Cavazos & Daniel Octavio Gomez Rechy
2009 – Katrina Nicole Hein & Michael Robert Cerda | Sofía Mendoza De la Miyar & Adrian Garza De Hoyos
2008 – Alexa Anne Treviño & Arturo Thomas Volpe | Mariajosé Cervantes García & Leopoldo Daniel García Cavazos
2007 – Raquel Irene Barrientos Cardenas & Luke Bently Lamberth | Dariela Maria Gomez Lozano & Maximiliano Arguindegui Mounetou
2006 – Andria Josefina Zuñiga & Ruben Anthony Enriquez | Andrea Carolina Guerra Chapa & Ariel Sebastián Gomez Lozano
2005 – Cristina Victoria Palacios & Carlos Antonio Alvarez | Angelica Hinojosa Rodriguez & Maximiliano Ramos Guajardo
2004 – Madison Victoria Peterson & Austin Alexander Valls | Daniela Virgen González & Manuel Elizaldi Barrios
2003 – Natalie Angela Notzon & Sabás Zapata IV | Rebeca Edith Santana Giron & Juan Eduardo Guarneros Peña
2002 – Alejandra Victoria Bravo & Carroll E. Summers, IV | Miriam Graciela González Martínez & Eduardo Cervantes García
2001 – Casey Ann Zúñiga & Luis Emmanuel Guajardo | Sarai Betsabe Santana Giron & Eduardo Fabian Cantu Lopez
2000 – Charlotte Sue Jackson & Charles Jerome Averill | Andrea Becerra Enríquez & Jose Jesus Gonzalez Martinez
1999 – Amy Elizabeth Ender & Roberto L. Rathmell | Diana A. Ramos Guajardo & Eduardo Torres Garcia
1998 – Tiffany Wong & Roger A. Blair | Carolina Denise Vela Lopez & Sergio E. Miranda Chapa
1997 – Hannah Laura Treviño & Mercurio Martinez, IV | Alina Judith Mena Gordillo & Andres F. Ortega Herrera
1996 – Meaghan E. Farrell & Joaquin Cigarroa, IV | Daniela Torres Vázquez & Basilio Ramos Guajardo
1995 – Reine Ann LaMantia & Jeffrey Kane Alexander | Melisa Elizabeth Aguayo Girón & Juan Rendón Hinojosa
1994 – Linessa Michelle Zuniga & Jason Macdonald | Leticia Alejandra Larios & Lauro Luis Guajardo Garcia
1993 – Kristina A. Rathmell & Joaquin Dario Ramirez | Liz Angélica Sandoval Ramos & Sergio Alberto Vela López
1992 – Cristel Castillon & Daniel James Nicholson | Georgina Garza Ramos & Alejandro Salinas
1991 – Courtney Sames & David W. Killam, Jr. | Cassandra Nile Longoria & Raul Lozano
1990 – Kelly Marie Jackson & Carlos Manuel Zaffirini, Jr. | Adriana Melissa Garcia & Manuel E. Garza
1989 – Michelle Bernice Perez & Patricio David Sanchez | Gabriela Vázquez Zabadua & Mario Valdez Flores
1988 – Katherine Randal Keck & George Macdonald, III | Adriana Fernández Zaragoza & Ángel Javier Urteaga
1987 – Minnie Dora Haynes & Hector F. Martinez, Jr. | Vanessa Bazán Musquiz & Carlos F. Longoria
1986 – Julia Casso & John H. Keck, Jr. | Liliana Cuellar Garza & Jorge Valdez Ceballos
1985 – Erika G. Garcia & William Nesbit Hall, III | Irma Mirthala Garza & Jose Covarrubias
1984 – Kimberly Jackson & Elliot Jackson | Claudia Izar Rios & Fernando Rios
1983 – Lisa Jacobs & Michael David Portman | Yvonne Cantú & José Eduardo Casso Osornio
1982 – Nora Lee Notzon & David Whitworth | Claudia Vázquez Zebadua & Bernardo Gallegos Treviño
1981 – Lisa Guajardo & Gilbert Guajardo | Susana Bolaños Barrios & Ernesto Casso Carranza
1980 – Jenny Dovalina & Stephen Vela | Mónica Gómez Gutiérrez & Eduardo Cervantes Ramírez
1979 – Rosa Andrea Tijerina & Ramiro Elizondo, Jr. | María Lourdes Gutiérrez & Eduardo Cañamar Ferrara
1978 – Gabriela Margarita Gonzalez & C. Michael Hein | Susana Bolaños Barrios & Ernesto Casso Carranza
1977 – Kathleen Brinkley & Renato Zapata, III | Elsa Yvette González Basurto & Raúl Sergio Villarreal
1976 – Marisa Pena & William McKendrick, IV | Sandra Barrios Castaño & Prisciliano Barrera Guzmán III
1975 – Patricia Solis & Mark Valls | Sharon Ferrara Theriot & Ernesto Ferrara Theriot
1974 – Alejandra Gonzalez & Joaquin E. Cigarroa | Niria Chalay Guarneros Carranza & José Virgilio Guarneros Carranza
1973 – Christine Joan Holliday & John Andrew Kazen | Ameli Mounetou Pérez & Gerardo Vázquez Costilla
1972 – Jennifer Magnon & Richard Rodriguez | Diana Montemayor Martínez & Eduardo Luis Garza
1971 – Michelle Martin & Sammy Yates, Jr. | María de la Paz Quintanilla Solís & Alfredo De León Montemayor
1970 – Marleen Allen & Greg Prestgard | Gayle Brittingham & Ignacio G. Montemayor Martínez, Jr.
1969 – Martha Bruni & Roberto E. Bruni | Adriana Mounetou Pérez & José Luis Vázquez Costilla