Name Year
| David C. Wilson | 1935 |
| David C. Wilson | 1936 |
| R. Finley Gayle, Jr | 1937 |
| Frank R. Redwood | 1938 |
| H C Henry | 1939 |
| Thomas N. Spessard | 1940 |
| W. Gayle Crutchfield | 1941 |
| Howard R. Masters | 1942 |
| Joseph R. Blalock | 1943 |
| O. B. Darden | 1944 |
| David L. Harrell, Jr | 1945 |
| James A. Shield | 1946 |
| Rex Blankinship | 1947 |
| Claude L. Neale | 1948 |
| James B. Pettis | 1949 |
| James K. Morrow | 1950 |
| R. Coleman Longan, Jr | 1951 |
| James B. Funkhouser | 1952 |
| Frank A. Strickler | 1953 |
| James Saunders, APA DB | |
| Granville L. Jones | 1954 |
| Claude L. Neale, APA, DB | |
| Richard W. Garrett, Jr | 1955 |
| George F. Fultz, Jr | 1956 |
| Weir M. Tucker | 1957 |
| Thomas F. Coates | 1958 |
| Weir M. Tucker | |
| Frederick G. Woodson | 1959 |
| W. Dimmock Buxton | 1960 |
| Robert H. Thrasher | 1961 |
| Howard H. Ashbury | 1962 |
| William M. Sheppe, Jr | 1963 |
| Edward M. Gamble, III | 1964 |
| Richard W. Garnett, Jr | 1965 |
| Robert D. Gardner | 1966 |
| Merritt W. Foster, Jr | 1967 |
| Milton D. Friedenberg | 1968 |
| William F. Gibbs | 1969 |
| R. Terrell Wingfield | 1970 |
| William H. Grey | 1971 |
| John Buckman | 1972 |
| Bernard H. Kasinoff | 1973 |
| Robert T. Hyde | 1974 |
| R. Finley Gayle, III | 1975 |
| Hobart G. Hansen | 1976 |
| Owen B. Brodie | 1977 |
| B. Robert Ashby | 1978 |
| John Mullaney | 1979 |
| Stuart Ashman | 1980 |
| James A. Shield, Jr | 1981 |
| Ruth B. Weeks | 1982 |
| Wesley B. Carter | 1983 |
| Bernard M. Williams | 1984 |
| Eloise C. Haun | 1985 |
| Douglas H. Chessen | 1986 |
| William M. McDonough | 1987 |
| Bobby W. Nelson | 1988 |
| William L. Harp | 1989 |
| John O. Hurt, Jr | 1990 |
| Duncan S. Wallace | 1991 |
| E. Dan Kay, Jr | 1992 |
| Lillian C. Lindemann | 1993 |
| J. Kipling Jones | 1994 |
| W. Stanley Jennings, Jr | 1995 |
| Prakash Ettigi | 1996 |
| John P. D. Shemo | 1997 |
| Benjamin A. Carey | 1998 |
| David B. Trinkle | 1999 |
| R. S. Shenoy | 2000 |
| Helen Foster | 2001 |
| David Markowitz | 2002 |
| Greg Fisher | 2003 |
| Yaacov Pushkin | 2004 |
| Edward Goldenberg | 2005 |
| Lawrence J. Conell | 2006 |
| Steve Brasington | 2007 |
| James L. Krag | 2008 |
| J. Edwin Nieves | 2009 |
| Cheryl Jones | 2010 |
| Adam Kaul | 2011 |
| Vic Vieweg | 2012 |
| Rizwan Ali | 2013 |
| Brian Wood | 2014 |
| Varun Choudhary | 2015 |
| Susan J. Waller | 2016 |
| Joseph T. Mason | 2017 |
| Meredith Lee | 2018 |
| John Urbach | 2019 |
| Stephen Cunningham | 2020 |
| Sherin Moideen | 2021 |
| Kara Beatty | 2022 |