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PINNACLE AWARDS 2020
Program adds Turnbull Award honoring a rising Pensacola star by STEVE BORNHOFT and HANNAH BURKE
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arjorie Turnbull has been many things — a county commissioner, a state legislator, the executive director of a community college, a bank director and the kind of community servant whose name might fittingly be placed on a bridge or a building. Still, Sept. 29 was a special day for her. It was then that Rowland Publishing and 850 — The Business Magazine of Northwest Florida unveiled a new honor as part of its Pinnacle Awards program, which was established in 2014. Pinnacle Awards are reserved for outstanding Northwest Florida women who have emerged over the course of distinguished careers as accomplished professionals and community assets. Effective this year, RPI decided to additionally recognize a young woman of obvious promise who has embarked on a trajectory sure to be impressive. Turnbull, of Tallahassee, was herself recognized with a Pinnacle Award, and minutes later, it was divulged that the new honor will be known as the Turnbull Award. Turnbull was thrilled. “I am sitting here absolutely stunned,” she wrote in an email sent to RPI president Brian Rowland and two of his key employees, McKenzie Burleigh and Steve Bornhoft. “The Pinnacle Award is in itself a recognition that was so unexpected. But you have gone above and beyond what I deserve with the new award that you have chosen to put in my name that will recognize someone early in a life of service and accomplishment. Nothing could honor me more.” The first-ever winner of the Turnbull Award, announced via a virtual presentation that originated in Tallahassee, was Adrienne Maygarden of Ascension Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola. She was among eight women from Emerald Coast who were honored …
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→ Among her many pursuits and community involvements, Marjorie Turnbull has always been close to higher education.