Steve Jobs to Headline 2009 Inductees to CE Hall of Fame

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 23, 2009 - 10:09am.

Arlington, Va. - Steve Jobs, the co-founder and CEO of Apple (NASD: AAPL), heads the newly announced 2009 class of inductees into the Consumer Electronics (CE) Hall of Fame, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announced on Thursday.

Jobs, who is expected to return from a five-month medical leave in June, will join a dozen other industry luminaries, all scheduled to enter the Hall during a ceremony in Phoenix this fall.

Other new members include Irwin Jacobs, the co-founder of Qualcomm; Karl Hassel and Ralph Mathews, founders of the Chicago Radio Laboratory, which later became Zenith Radio; John Shalam, who founded Audiovox; the late Neil Terk, founder of Terk Technologies; Walton Stinson, the president and co-founder of specialty audio and video chain Listen Up; Norman, Maurice and Philip Cohen, owners of discount consumer electronics store Lechmere Sales; Richard Wiley, past chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC); Joseph Flaherty, who demonstrated HDTV to the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers in 1981; and Aaron Neretin, a consumer electronics journalist who wrote for Merchandising Week.

The inductees were selected by an independent panel of industry judges.