2023

• David Moore and Nancy M. White

2022

• R.P. Stephen Davis, Jr, Gregory Waselkov, and Robbie Ethridge

2021

• Ian W. Brown
  

2020

• Lynne Sullivan
  

2019

• Elizabeth J. (Betsy) Reitz and Jay J. Johnson
  

2018

• Richard W. Jefferies and David G. Anderson
  

2017

• John W. O’Hear and John Connaway
  

2016

• Vernon James Knight, Judith Knight, and William Marquardt
  

2015

• Jerald T. Milanich and Kathleen A. Deagan

2014

• Jon L. Gibson and David Hally

2013

• Rochelle Ann Marrinan and Barbara A. Purdy

2012

• John A. Walthall and Charles H. McNutt

2011

• no award presented

2010

• Richard A. Yarnell

2009

• James Brown

2008

• Bennie Keel

2007

• Charles Faulkner

2006

• Hester Davis

2005

• Dan and Phyllis Morse

2004

• Patty Jo Watson

2003

• Stanley South and John Hann