| Award Year | Recipient |
| 2010 | Bee Leng Chua |
| 2010 | Ron Breaker |
| 2010 | Paul Skinner |
| 2010 | Lela Jahn |
| 2009 | Dale Klapmeier |
| 2008 | John List |
| 2007 | Wendy Kohrt |
| 2006 | Andrew Naumann |
| 2005 | David Worth
Robert Hanes |
| 2004 | Sherin Lemke Bowen (deceased) Gordon Faust |
| 2003 | William Horvath
Debra Castillo |
| 2002 | Rick Gering
Shawn Granger McBride |
| 2001 | Richard Bennett
Frederick Wenzel |
| 2000 | Robert Whitsitt
Mary Markham Williams |
| 1999 | Carlos Castillo-Chavez
John Noel Terry Porter |
| 1998 | Raymond Mundt |
| 1997 | Michael Dombeck
Karen Beebe Engelhard |
| 1996 | Melvin R. Laird |
| 1995 | Patricia Reading Curry
William Golomski (deceased) James Stoltenberg (deceased) Cynthia Burger Thomas |
| 1994 | John Anderson (deceased)
David Helbach D. David Sebold |
| 1993 | |
| 1992 | Harold Dregne (deceased) Raymond Urbans |
| 1991 | Laurin Gordon (deceased) |
| 1990 | Reuben Belongia (deceased) William Clements (deceased) Frank DeGuire Hildegard Kuse Lolita Krell Schneiders Herbert Steiner (deceased) |
| 1989 | Ruth Johnson Cady (deceased)
Royal Gordon (deceased) Herbert Grover Marjorie Warner (deceased) Inman Whipple (deceased) |
| 1988 | Margaret Ashmun (deceased)
H. Mason Atwood (deceased) Joseph Beck (deceased) Duaine Counsell (deceased) Lewis Drobnick (deceased) Arnold Gesell (deceased) Edith Samson McCall (deceased) Mary Ann Cwiklo Nigbor Floyd Nixon (deceased) Leslie Trowbridge |
| 1987 | Gary Jacobson |
| 1986 | Samuel Kingston (deceased) |
| 1985 | Frank Klement (deceased)
James McGinley(deceased) |
| 1984 | George Cartmill |
| 1983 | Edward Dunigan
Cedric Vig |
| 1982 | Henry (Tiny) Bannach (deceased)
Edward Okray (deceased) Gerhard Willecke (deceased) Robert Worth |
| 1981 | William Bablitch |
| 1980 | Doris Moss Balko
Walter Drzewieniecki (deceased) |
| 1979 | Mary Noble Fick
Charles Neinas Arthur Pejsa George Zimmer II (deceased) |
| 1978 | Irene Kronenwetter (deceased)
Clarence Styza (deceased) Robert Vennie (deceased) |
| 1977 | Marion Brazeau Fey (deceased)
Helen Lohr (deceased) Richard Toser (deceased) |
| 1976 | Lawrence Eagleburger
Kenneth Willett (deceased) |
| 1975 | |
| 1974 | Gordon Haferbecker (deceased) |
| 1973 | Rolf Larson (deceased) |
| 1972 | |
| 1971 | George Spindler |
| 1970 | Richard Berndt
Edward Fromm (deceased) |
| 1969 | Paul Collins (deceased)
William Hansen (deceased) Norman Knutzen (deceased) Helen Collins MacElwee (deceased) C. Joseph Nuesse Elizabeth Pfiffner-Debot (deceased) May Roach (deceased) |
| Award Year | Recipient |
| 2010 | Lauren McGrath |