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Ben Johnson Memorial Award
Awarded in 2025
Mike "Hud" Hudson
Michael E. (Hud) Hudson was born in Houston, Texas, and began competing in youth rodeos in the seventh grade. He attended Sam Houston State University, where he competed on the rodeo team.
After college, Hudson served six years in the Texas Army National Guard airborne infantry, then began a career as a pharmaceutical sales rep in the animal health industry that spanned four decades. Hudson was also a rodeo representative for the sports marketing division of Adolph Coors Company for two years.
Hudson has served on numerous boards promoting and preserving rodeo’s history, including the Rodeo Historical Society at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame. For 25 years, he sat on the board of the Windy Ryon Memorial Roping, where money generated by tickets sales funded college scholarships.
As president of the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame, he initiated several rodeos for children with special needs and was instrumental in the development of their rodeo scholarship program.
Hudson also served for nearly three decades as a committeeman for the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, and he is a 23-year member of the Tejas Vaqueros, an organization dedicated to preserving Western heritage.
In 2011, Hudson was inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame. A PRCA Gold Card member, he and his wife, Kimberly, live on their ranch in Bowie, Texas.
Michael E. (Hud) Hudson was born in Houston, Texas, and began competing in youth rodeos in the seventh grade. He attended Sam Houston State University, where he competed on the rodeo team.
After college, Hudson served six years in the Texas Army National Guard airborne infantry, then began a career as a pharmaceutical sales rep in the animal health industry that spanned four decades. Hudson was also a rodeo representative for the sports marketing division of Adolph Coors Company for two years.
Hudson has served on numerous boards promoting and preserving rodeo’s history, including the Rodeo Historical Society at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame. For 25 years, he sat on the board of the Windy Ryon Memorial Roping, where money generated by tickets sales funded college scholarships.
As president of the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame, he initiated several rodeos for children with special needs and was instrumental in the development of their rodeo scholarship program.
Hudson also served for nearly three decades as a committeeman for the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, and he is a 23-year member of the Tejas Vaqueros, an organization dedicated to preserving Western heritage.
In 2011, Hudson was inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame. A PRCA Gold Card member, he and his wife, Kimberly, live on their ranch in Bowie, Texas.
