| Paul E. Wunsche | 2011 | Biography |
| W. David Melear | 2010 | Biography |
| Dock Franklin Dixon | 2009 | Biography |
| William Ellis (Bill) Matyastik | 2008 | Biography |
| Thomas W. Snyder | 2007 | Biography |
| Aubrey Glen McCandless | 2006 | Biography |
| Lawrence E. Tucker | 2005 | |
| James Noel Higdon | 2004 | Biography |
| James P. Smith | 2003 | |
| Wayne D. Groce | 2002 | |
| Thomas N. Turner | 2001 | |
| Jerry Nelson Kirby | 2000 | Biography |
| Loyd Leo Chance | 2000 | Biography |
| Leonard O. Pierce | 1999 | |
| F. Douglas Mitchell | 1998 | |
| Graham H. Childress | 1997 | |
| Michael H. Shively | 1996 | |
| Paul D. Warren | 1995 | Biography |
| Charles Smith | 1995 | Biography |
| Jerry L. Mann | 1994 | |
| James D. Mooney | 1993 | |
| Robert Paul Walker | 1992 | |
| John E. Gibson | 1991 | |
| Kenneth B. Fischer | 1990 | |
| Jerral F. Knox | 1989 | |
| Charles A. Hudnall | 1988 | |
| Roland J. Maddox | 1987 | |
| R. Furman Vinson | 1986 | |
| Thomas C. Yantis | 1985 | |
| Wallace E Dunn | 1984 | |
| Robert C. Rains | 1984 | Biography |
| William Lee Blanks | 1983 | Biography |
| Robert A. Melton | 1982 | |
| Chas. D. Browder, Jr. | 1981 | |
| Donald Lynn Smith, Sr. | 1980 | |
| Albert Branch (Bobby) Seay | 1980 | |
| James D. Berry | 1979 | Biography |
| C. W. Wesbrooks | 1978 | |
| James Darwin (Buddy) Baccus | 1977 | |
| F. A. (Fritz) White | 1976 | |
| Sam E. Hilburn | 1975 | |
| A. C. Martindale | 1974 | |
| James McCorry (Jimmy) Willson, Jr. | 1973 | |
| Winford Owen | 1972 | |
| Dale E. Miller | 1971 | |
| E. Bloomquist | 1970 | |
| Lawrence DeHay | 1969 | |
| Richard R. Porter | 1968 | |
| A. G. Coots | 1967 | |
| Elmer E. Watkins | 1966 | |
| J. T. Sanders | 1965 | |
| Hal Burnett | 1964 | |
| Litt S. Perry | 1964 | |
| Kaplan H. Andrew | 1963 | |
| H. Jack Hefner | 1962 | |
| Harvey C. Byrd | 1961 | |
| Gus Louis Meyer | 1960 | |
| James C. Garlitz | 1959 | |
| Arch M. Dullnig | 1958 | |
| H. B. Beard | 1957 | |
| J. Marvin Pugh | 1956 | |
| W. L. Brown | 1955 | |
| R. E. Henderson | 1954 | |
| Victor C. Whitfield | 1953 | |
| Nat Pace | 1952 | |
| H. B. Bryan | 1951 | |
| Thomas Bethell | 1950 | |
| R. B. Cowden | 1949 | |
| Tom J. Melton | 1948 | |
| Vance K. Miller | 1947 | |
| S. M. Bunn | 1946 | |
| Burke Thomason | 1945 | |
| Harry B. Tuer | 1944 | |
| William D. Miller | 1943 | |
| James M. Caviness | 1942 | |
| Edward Dorman Rutledge | 1941 | |
| Hale Clyde Salter | 1940 | |
| Daniel Nash Cushing | 1939 | |
| Jewel Preston Lightfoot | 1938 | |
| George Henry Haase | 1937 | |
| Tell Victor McCoy | 1936 | |
| Otto Stehlik | 1935 | |
| William Joseph Rhea | 1934 | |
| Omar Ernest Radford | 1933 | |
| Thomas Mitchell Bartley | 1932 | |
| John Temple Rice | 1931 | |
| Nathan Kimball Tracy | 1930 | |
| Philip Luther Sanders | 1929 | |
| George Stapleton | 1928 | |
| Phocion Sankey Park | 1927 | |
| Frank Hicklin Sparrow | 1926 | |
| W. G. Bell | 1925 | |
| Charles Leslie Alderman | 1924 | |
| Herbert Brashear Robertson | 1923 | |
| Thomas Yantis | 1922 | |
| Livingston Gardner Hawkins | 1921 | |
| John Blackburn Sawtell | 1920 | |
| Frank Cameron Jones, Sr. | 1919 | |
| William James | 1918 | |
| Robert Lee Bell | 1917 | |
| Guy Wilson Junker | 1916 | |
| William Garland Newby | 1915 | |
| George W. Tyler | 1914 | |
| James Jefferson Davis | 1913 | |
| Judge G. Wooten | 1912 | |
| William Madden Fly | 1911 | |
| Samuel Poyntz Cochran | 1910 | |
| Harry Alexander Carpenter | 1909 | |
| John Carson Kidd | 1908 | |
| Alvin V. Lane | 1907 | |
| Marcus F. Mott | 1906 | |
| Thomas Franklin Harwood | 1905 | |
| Edwin Chamberlain | 1904 | |
| William H. Bell | 1903 | |
| Jacob Frederick Zurn | 1902 | |
| Frederic M. Gilbough | 1901 | |
| Alfred R. Howard | 1900 | |
| P. T. Morey | 1899 | |
| Albert Addison Johnston | 1898 | |
| Lucus T. Noyes | 1897 | |
| John Fontaine Brinkerhoff | 1896 | |
| John McDonald | 1895 | |
| Edwin James Fry | 1894 | |
| Thomas J. Beall | 1893 | |
| David C. Proctor | 1892 | |
| James Garitty | 1891 | |
| Lawrence M. Knepfly | 1890 | |
| John Martin | 1889 | |
| Charles Davis | 1888 | |
| John Orville Johnson | 1887 | |
| Theodore U. Lubbock | 1886 | |
| Nathaniel Wyche Hunter | 1885 | |
| Jonathan Harrison | 1884 | |
| John C. McCoy | 1883 | |
| John Elgin Good | 1882 | |
| Joseph W. Hanning | 1881 | |
| Henry Bates Stoddard | 1880 | |
| Henry Scherffius | 1879 | |
| James Francis Miller | 1878 | |
| Davis Robert Gurley | 1877 | |
| Louis M. Openheimer | 1876 | |
| Edwin Gustavus Bower | 1875 | |
| Benjamin B. Richardson | 1874 | |
| Austin C. Baker | 1873 | |
| Alfred S. Richardson | 1872 | |
| Alfred S. Richardson | 1871 | |
| Frank Barlow Sexton | 1870 | |
| William Walter Bolts | 1869 | |
| Peter W. Gray | 1868 | |
| Nahor B. Yard | 1867 | |
| Robert Morriss Elgin | 1866 | |
| Benjamin A. Botts | 1865 | |
| Phillip Crosby Tucker | 1864 | |
| Josiah A. Lawrence | 1863 | |
| Edward H. Cushing | 1862 | |
| Edward Clark | 1861 | |
| John McBride | 1860 | |
| George Moffitt Patrick | 1859 | |
| James Sorley | 1858 | |
| Edward W. Taylor | 1857 | |
| William (Edward) M. Taylor | 1856 | |
| Archibald S. Ruthven | 1855 | Biography |
| Samuel M. Williams | 1854 | |
