April 20 - Will Harris III was honored today as Georgia’s 2011 Small Business Persons of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Harris’ farm operation, White Oak Pastures, is one of the largest producers of organic, grass-fed beef in the country. 

Harris received his SBA statewide awards from Terri Denison, SBA Georgia District Director,    at an Atlanta luncheon hosted by the Georgia Lenders Quality Circle, a group of active SBA bankers and other small business lenders. Harris was nominated for his award by David D. Dunn at the University of Georgia Small Business Development Center in Albany.   

Harris will represent Georgia as the state’s top entrepreneur at the U.S. Small Business Administration’s National Small Business Week events, May 18-20, in Washington, D.C. The week’s events and educational forums will mark the 58^th anniversary of the agency and the 48^th annual proclamation of National Small Business Week.