| 2025 | Anne Toppinen |
| 2024 | Michael Wolcott |
| 2023 | Susan Anagnost |
| 2022 | Armando McDonald |
| 2021 | Eric Hansen |
| 2020 | Jan Wiedenbeck |
| 2019 | James Funck |
| 2018 | Paul M. Smith |
| 2017 | Frederick A. Kamke |
| 2016 | Robert W. Rice |
| 2015 | Jerrold E. Winandy |
| 2014 | Douglas J. Gardner Victoria Herian |
| 2013 | James P. Armstrong |
| 2012 | Chung-Yun Hse |
| 2011 | Robert W. Erickson |
| 2010 | H. Michael Barnes |
| 2009 | Carol B. Ovens Thomas E. McLain |
| 2008 | Alan Marra |
| 2007 | A. William Boehner |
| 2006 | Duane E. Lyon |
| 2005 | Howard N. Rosen |
| 2004 | Geza Ifju Helmuth Resch |
| 2003 | James L. Bowyer Elvin Choong |
| 2002 | Frank C. Beall |
| 2001 | Thomas M. Maloney |
| 2000 | Otto Suchsland |
| 1999 | Richard J. Thomas |
| 1998 | Steve Sinclair (posthumously) Everett Ellis |
| 1997 | Warren S. Thompson |
| 1996 | E. Allen McGinnes |
| 1995 | Arno P. Schniewind |
| 1994 | William T. Nearn |
| 1993 | Robert W. Kennedy |
| 1992 | Stephen B. Preston |
| 1991 | Charles Berolzheimer |
| 1990 | Wilfred A. Cote |
| 1989 | Robert L. Youngs |
| 1988 | Stanley Suddarth |
| 1987 | Peter Koch |
| 1986 | Christen Skaar |
| 1985 | John Haygreen |
| 1984 | George Marra |
| 1983 | Herbert McKean Alfred Stamm Fred Wangaard Herbert Fleischer Frank Kaufert Fred Dickinson |
| 1982 | Alexis Panshin |
| 1981 | George Garratt |
| 1980 | Jim Bethel |
| 1968 | Alfred Stamm |
| 1966 | Harry Tiemann |