Here are the names of the 21 Charter Members elected in June 2009 as the first Meat Industry Hall of Fame class (alphabetically by first name):
 
Dell Allen, Ph.D. 
Donald L. Houston 
Donald Tyson 
Earl Olson 
Frank Perdue 
Gary C. Smith, Ph.D.
Jimmy Dean
Joseph Luter III
Kenneth W. Monfort  
Lawrence Starr
Louis “Mick” Colvin  
Mel Coleman, Sr.
Paul Engler
Phillip M. Seng 
Ray Townsend 
Richard L. Knowlton 
Richard E. Lyng 
Rosemary Mucklow 
Robert Peterson  
Russell Cross, Ph.D.
Temple Grandin, Ph.D.