2006 - John G. LaBrie | Simon Fraser University
| 2005 - Carol Switzer | Arizona State University
| 2004 - Cordelia A. Maloney | University of Illinois at Chicago
| 2003 - James L. Murphy | University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
| 2002 - Ronald L. Wasserstein | Washburn University
| 2001 - Bill J. Kops | University of Manitoba
| 2000 - Donna Scarboro | The George Washington University
| 1999 - Karen H. Sibley | Brown University
| 1998 - Anita D. McDonald | University of Arizona
| 1997 - Lee E. Golden | University of Portland
| 1996 - Victor N. Kobayashi | University of Hawai'i at Manoa
| 1995 - Dori Beeks | Western Oregon State College
| 1994 - Sybil P. Smith | Boston University
| 1993 - Nancy M. Tischler | The Pennsylvania State University
| 1992 - John F. Cudd Jr. | North Carolina State University
| 1991 - Thomas S. McLeRoy | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
| 1990 - Norman S. Watt | University of British Columbia
| 1989 - K. Jil Warn | University of California-San Diego
| 1988 - Jack K. Johnson | Hamline University
| 1987 - Richard D. Moe | Pacific Lutheran University
| 1986 - Donald G. Tarbet | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
| 1985 - Melvin Bernstein | University of Maryland-College Park
| 1984 - John M. Hough Jr. | Mars Hill College
| 1983 - Norman H. Sam | Lehigh University
| 1982 - Thomas M. O'Shea | Syracuse University
| 1981 - Leslie J. Coyne | Indiana University
| 1980 - Nancy Abraham | University of Wisconsin-Madison
| 1979 - Anne E. Scheerer | Creighton University
| 1978 - Michael U. Nelson | Washington University in St. Louis
| 1977 - Joseph Pettit | Georgetown University
| 1976 - George O. Cole | Southern Connecticut State College
| 1975 - N. Lee Dunham | Baylor University
| 1974 - John A. Mapp | Virginia Commonwealth University
| 1973 - Harriet D. Darrow | Indiana State University
| 1972 - Charles E. Noyes | University of Mississippi
| 1971 - Willard Edwards | San Fernando Valley State College
| 1970 - Herbert P. Stutts | The American University
| 1969 - Hubert J. McCormick | Sacramento State College
| 1968 - Jackson R. Wells | University of Denver
| 1967 - William C. Venman | University of Massachusetts-Amherst
| 1966 - Lloyd I. Watkins | Ohio University
| 1965 - Clodus R. Smith | University of Maryland-College Park
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