2024 – Frankie Condon
2023 – Staci Perryman-Clark
2022 – Holly Hassel
2021 – Julie Lindquist
2020 – Vershawn Ashanti Young
2019 – Asao B. Inoue
2018 – Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt
2017 – Linda Adler-Kassner
2016 – Joyce Carter
2015 – Adam Banks (through 9/15) Howard Tinberg (9/15 – 12/15)
2014 – Howard Tinberg
2013 – Chris Anson
2012 – Malea Powell
2011 – Gwendolyn D. Pough
2010 – Marilyn Valentino
2009 – Charles Bazerman
2008 – Cheryl Glenn
2007 – Akua Duku Anokye
2006 – Judith Wootten
2005 – Douglas D. Hesse
2004 – Kathleen Blake Yancey
2003 – Shirley Wilson Logan
2002 – John Lovas*
2001 – Wendy Bishop*
2000 – Keith Gilyard
1999 – Victor Villanueva, Jr.
1998 – Cynthia Selfe
1997 – Nell Ann Pickett*
1996 – Lester Faigley*
1995 – Jacqueline Jones Royster
1994 – Lillian Bridwell-Bowles
1993 – Anne Ruggles Gere
1992 – William W. Cook
1991 – Donald McQuade
1990 – Jane E. Peterson
1989 – Andrea A. Lunsford
1988 – David Bartholomae
1987 – Miriam T. Chaplin*
1986 – Lee Odell
1985 – Maxine Hairston*
1984 – Rosentene B. Purnell
1983 – Donald C. Stewart*
1982 – James Lee Hill
1981 – Lynn Quitman Troyka
1980 – Frank D’Angelo
1979 – William F. Irmscher
1978 – Vivian I. Davis
1977 – Richard Lloyd-Jones*
1976 – Marianna W. Davis
1975 – Lionel R. Sharp
1974 – Richard L. Larson*
1973 – James D. Barry*
1972 – Elisabeth McPherson*
1971 – Edward P. J. Corbett*
1970 – Ronald E. Freeman*
1969 – Wallace W. Douglas*
1968 – Dudley Bailey*
1967 – Richard Braddock*
1966 – Gordon Wilson*
1965 – Richard S. Beal*
1964 – Robert M. Gorrell
1963 – Priscilla Tyler*
1962 – Francis E. Bowman
1961 – Erwin R. Steinberg
1960 – Glen Leggett*
1959 – Albert R. Kitzhaber*
1958 – Robert E. Tuttle
1957 – Francis Shoemaker
1956 – Irwin Griggs*
1955 – Jerome W. Archer
1954 – T. A. Barnhart*
1953 – Karl W. Dykema*
1952 – Harold B. Allen*
1951 – George S. Wykoff*
1950 – John C. Gerber*
1949 – John C. Gerber** Deceased
