Chamber gala wraps up 2025 with 2026 awards

Jack Montgomery with 2025 Board Chair Lindsay McClaran (left) and Chamber President and CEO Stephanie Barnette. Photos by Marilyn Miller

The 84th Annual Greater Minden Chamber Gala ended on a high note Tuesday night with the naming of Minden’s Man and Woman of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Young Women’s Service Club’s Woman of the Year Award went to Jodie Waller Martin, owner of Geaux Fresh. Minden Lions’ Club Man of the Year Award was accepted by Fibrebond Corporation founder Claud Walker in honor of his son, Graham, who was unable to attend.

Jack Montgomery took home the Chamber’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

See Thursday’s Webster Parish Journal for more award-winners from the gala.

Woman of the Year Jodie Waller Martin, right, with Young Women’s Service Club President Melody Schelley.
Fibrebond founder Claud Walker and Minden Mayor Nick Cox.