| Year | Recipient |
| 2020 | Shannon Murphy |
| 2019 | Allan Felsot |
| 2018 | Bill Walton |
| 2017 | Wyatt Hoback |
| 2016 | Pete Teel |
| 2015 | James Carey |
| 2014 | Diane Ullman |
| 2013 | Timothy Paine |
| 2012 | Florence Dunkel |
| 2011 | Tanja McKay |
| 2010 | Sujaya Rao |
| 2009 | Carol Anelli |
| 2008 | Tiffany M. Heng-Moss |
| 2007 | Joe McHugh |
| 2006 | May R. Berenbaum |
| 2005 | Richard Zack |
| 2004 | Jerome F. Grant |
| 2003 | Christian Y. Oseto |
| 2002 | Walter G. Goodman |
| 2001 | Timothy Mack |
| 2000 | Leon G. Higley |
| 1999 | Daniel A. Potter |
| 1998 | Ronald J. Kuhr |
| 1997 | F. Thomas Turpin |
| 1996 | Donald W. Hall |
| 1995 | J.D. Culin |
| 1994 | Richard Fell |
| 1993 | David L. Kulhavy |
| 1992 | T. Michaels Peters |
| 1991 | Brian A. Federici |
| 1990 | Kenneth Yeargan |
| 1989 | Daniel K. Young |
| 1988 | Thomas J. Riley |
| 1987 | John R. Strayer |
| 1986 | George C. Eickwort |
| 1985 | Robert W. Matthews |
| 1984 | James K. Wangberg |
| 1983 | Augustus Burns Weathersby |
| 1982 | No recipient selected |
| 1981 | Howell V. Daly |
| 1980 | Richard J. Elzinga |
