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Best Chef: Southeast, presented by James Beard Foundation

No JBF awards presented in 2020 or 2021. Category includes GA, KY, NC, SC, TN and WV.

Name	Year
Terry Koval	2023
Ricky Moore	2022
Mashama Bailey	2019
Rodney Scott	2018
Steven Satterfield	2017
Tandy Wilson	2016
Jason Stanhope	2015
Ashley Christensen	2014
Joseph Lenn	2013
Hugh Acheson *	2012
Linton Hopkins *	2012
Andrea Reusing	2011
Sean Brock	2010
Mike Lata	2009
Robert Stehling	2008
Scott Peacock	2007
John Besh	2006
Joël Antunès	2005
Louis Osteen	2004
Clifford Harrison *	2003
Anne Quatrano *	2003
Anne Kearney	2002
Frank Stitt	2001
Ben Barker	2000
James P. Shannon	1999
Frank Brigtsen	1998
Norman Van Aken	1997
Günter Seeger	1996
Elizabeth Terry	1995
Allen Susser	1994
Susan Spicer	1993
Mark Militello	1992
Emeril Lagasse	1991
* award was shared