- 2023 - No Recipient
- 2022 - Randy A Roberts
- 2021 - Brad Scott
- 2020 - Raymond T. Stevens, Jr.
- 2019 - Kenneth H. McMahon
- 2018 - John P. Fox
- 2017 - James A. Mood
- 2016 - Robert E. Taylor
- 2015 - Lynn Bullock
- 2014 - Mike Rush
- 2013 - Gerald J. Mood
- 2012 - Elmer Steele
- 2011 - Jasper H. Lakey
- 2010 - M. Frank King
- 2009 - Charles W. Bostick
- 2008 - Hal Barber
- 2007 - J. Wallace Hudson
- 2006 - Norman L. Betts
- 2005 - William J. Paskey, Jr.
- 2004 - Raymond H. McCall
- 2003 - Charles Wollaston
- 2003 - Norman L. Tate
- 2002 - Carroll B. Jester
- 2001 - Roland Neeman
- 2000 - Carleton E. Carey, Sr.
- 1999 - John Allen Metheny, Sr.
- 1998 - Albert V. Lane, Jr.
- 1997 - Elmer Ennis
- 1996 - Walton A. Johnson, Sr.
- 1995 - Charles Neel
- 1995 - Joseph W. Hojnicki, Sr.
- 1994 - Clarence A. Schwatka, Jr.
- 1993 - William R. Carrow
- 1992 - G. Edward Wyatt
- 1991 - J. Ralph Brittingham
- 1990 - Lawrence E. Mergenthaler
- 1989 - William J. Quillen
- 1988 - Milton J. Niblett
- 1987 - Morris W. King
- 1986 - Richard E. Ennis, Sr.
- 1985 - Thomas S. Calhoun
- 1984 - John V. Ryan, Jr.
- 1983 - LeRoy V. Ryan, Sr.
- 1982 - Bruce C. Ennis
- 1981 - Thomas E. Marshall
- 1981 - Zora A. Tatman
- 1978 - Paul Neeman
- 1976 - James R. Roy, Sr.
- 1974 - John J. Jones
- 1971 - Donald J. Zulinksi
- 1968 - George I. Cochran, Jr
- 2024 - Ted Walius
