- 2024 – Karen Sibley, Brown University
- 2023 – Nelson Baker, Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2021 – Christina Sax, Maryland University of Integrative Health
- 2020 – Jay A. Halfond, Boston University
- 2019 – Richard Novak, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- 2018 – Alice Warren, North Carolina State University
- 2017 – Bethaida “Bea” González, Syracuse University
- 2016 – Thomas Gibbons, Northwestern University
- 2015 – James Shaeffer, Old Dominion University
- 2014 – David Schejbal, University of Wisconsin-Extension
- 2012 – Roger Whitaker, The George Washington University
- 2011 – Sue C. Maes, Kansas State University
- 2010 – Gary W. Matkin, University of California – Irvine
- 2009 – Wendell L. Smith, University of Missouri-St. Louis
- 2006 – James P. Pappas, University of Oklahoma
- 2005 – Craig D. Weidemann, The Pennsylvania State University
- 2004 – Michael Shinagel, Harvard University; Alexander N. Charters, Syracuse University
- 2002 – Gordon H. (Nick) Mueller, University of New Orleans
- 2001 – Robert Senecal, The University of Kansas
- 2000 – Edward G. Simpson, Jr., The University of Georgia
- 1999 – Robert G. Simerly, Florida State University
- 1998 – Miriam Williford, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- 1997 – Daniel W. Shannon, University of Chicago
- 1996 – Robert H. Boyd, University of North Dakota
- 1995 – Grover J. Andrews, University of Georgia
- 1992 – Quentin H. Gessner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; James E. Weigand, Indiana University
- 1990 – Harold A. Miller, University of Minnesota
- 1988 – Leonard Freedman, University of California-Los Angeles; Harvey Stedman, New York University
- 1987 – John C. Snider, Colorado State University
- 1986 – Rosalind K. Loring, University of Southern California; William L. Turner, North Carolina State University
- 1985 – Jean C. Evans, University of Wisconsin
- 1984 – Joseph P. Goddard, University of Tennessee-Knoxville; Milton R. Stern, University of California Berkeley
- 1982 – Thomas W. Mahler, The University of Georgia
- 1981 – Lowell R. Eklund, Oakland University
- 1980 – Robert F. Ray, The University of Iowa
- 1979 – Armand L. Hunter, Michigan State University
- 1978 – Floyd B. Fischer, The Pennsylvania State University; Paul E. Hadley, University of Southern California; T. Howard Walker, University of Kansas; Thurman J. White, University of Oklahoma
- 1977 – Stanley C. Robinson, University of Illinois
- 1976 – Nicholas P. Mitchell, University of South Carolina; Lloyd W. Schram, University of Washington
- 1975 – Paul H. Sheats, University of California-Los Angeles; Charles F. Milner, University of North Carolina
- 1974 – Charles H. Lawshe, Purdue University
- 1973 – Stanley J. Drazek, University of Maryland
- 1972 – James E. Arnold, University of Tennessee System; Ben F. Gustafson, University of North Dakota
- 1971 – Harold Glen Clark, Brigham Young University; Ernest E. McMahon, Rutgers University
- 1970 – John R. Morton, University of Alabama; Everett J. Soop, University of Michigan
- 1969 – D. Mack Easton, University of Colorado
- 1968 – Robert E. Tidwell, University of Alabama
- 1967 – Lorenz H. Adolfson, University of Wisconsin
- 1966 – Edward L. Keller, The Pennsylvania State University
- 1965 – Bower Aly, University of Oregon
