2012

David Stevens

2011

Clarence Lee Turner 

2010

Royal Brantley

2009

Travis Poe 

2008

Laura Bradshaw

Kathy Powdrell

2007

Alan Parker

Tal Lostrocco (posthumously)

2006

Allana Patterson

2005

Kris Andrews

Kathy Barber

2004

Peter Dias

Tom Waggoner

Gene Dickey

2003

Mary Ann Fletcher

Pam Mercer-McWilliams

2002

Adonia Placette

Jeanette Filardo

2001

Patricia Baldwin

Gregory M. Schwab

Helen Lewis

2000

Becky Bailey

Oscar Brockett

Orlin Corey

The Glenn Martin Family

Cynthia SoRelle

1999

Ralph Culp

Dan Hannon

Bob Singleton

1998

Rachel Smith

1997

Laurence Binder

Krin Brooks Perry

1996

Chuck Sheffield

John Steele

Pam Wilson

1995

Jay C. Brown

Luis Munoz

Betsy Cornwell

1994

Sheila Hargett

Thelma Pate

Jim Rambo

Ray Karrer

1993

Allan Ross

Thomas J. Lyttle

Lou-Ida Marsh

1992

Vicki Bond Smith

Jody Worsham

1991

Pam Brown

Marilyn Miller

Jan Jones

James R. Miller

1990

Kay L. Coughenour

1989

Mary Jane Mingus

1988

Nancy Rowley

Jimmy Tinkle

1987

George Sorensen

1986

Jerry Long

Coleman Jennings

1985

I. E. Clark

Randall J. Buchanan

Charles R. Jeffries

Kim Wheetley

1984

Ruth Denney

Curtis L. Pope

1983

Bill Cook

Ron Lucke

Ramona Peebles (posthumously)

Frederick J. March

Peggy Mungerson

1982

Amy Ferguson Lee

Jerry Worsham

1981

Charles Schmidt

Ronald Schulz

Noyce Burleson (posthumously)

1980

Perri Bell

W. Kenneth Waters

Lynn Murray

Zula Pearson

Ermine Worrell

1979

Roy Brown

Freda G. Powell

Frances Springer

Don Irwin

Alex Reeve

Jeanne Hindman

Carl Marder (posthumously)