Thank you to everyone who joined us for the 2025 Annual Meeting & Awards Dinner, presented by Priority Power!
The evening celebrated a year of progress, partnership and purpose — highlighted by the passing of the gavel honoring outgoing Board Chair Melissa Wicker and welcoming incoming Board Chair Dr. Darin Wood . We also swore in the Chamber’s 2025–2026 Board of Directors, reflected on milestones from the past year, and shared exciting announcements for 2026. In his acceptance speech for the Citizen of the Year Award, Don Evans reflected on Midland’s remarkable progress and future. The former Chairman of Permian Strategic Partnership and 34th United States Secretary of Commerce, highlighted ongoing infrastructure improvements, including upcoming development plans at the Beacon, and praised the region’s global impact. “This is an amazing place to live. It's amazing what this area has done and is doing to the world. Not enough people appreciate how the Permian Basin, which Midland is absolutely the center of it, has changed the world. If we were a country, we'd be the third largest producing country in the world, the Permian Basin.” He continued, “this is what we call the land of the high sky, and the sky's the limit. I went through the ups and downs of the industry, but all through that, I saw an optimistic spirit unlike I think exists anyplace else.”
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