| 2021 | Sandra Hood |
| 2020 | Lindsay Pennington |
| 2019 | Carla Carney |
| 2018 | Carl Burt |
| 2017 | Chandra Patterson |
| 2016 | Andrew Cohen |
| 2015 | Dewey M. Hutchins, Jr. |
| 2014 | Kimi Dornan |
| 2013 | Pamela McKinney Lewis |
| 2012 | Sheila Dann |
| 2011 | Dale Chandler |
| 2010 | Tom Sullivan |
| 2009 | Robert “Sully” Sullivan |
| 2008 | Karen Enriquez |
| 2007 | Donna Moyer |
| 2006 | Perry Pilgrim |
| 2005 | Marion Sparks |
| 2004 | John C. Daly |
| 2003 | Margaret Lassiter |
| 2002 | Dorothy Burch |
| 2001 | Joseph L. Carney |
| 2000 | E. Gene Efird, Jr. |
| 1999 | Barry A. Nachman |
| 1998 | Lynn G. Grimsley |
| 1997 | W. Gene Truskett |
| 1996 | Donald E. Phipps |
| 1995 | Richard Biege |
| 1994 | Robert Burch |
| 1993 | David S. Yeatts, Jr. |
| 1992 | Martha Anders |
| 1991 | Roger Guarry |
| 1990 | Ann W. Pane |
| 1989 | Al Abbitt |
| 1988 | Jo Ann Wood |
| 1987 | Judy Scott Herrin |
| 1986 | Charlie Rhodes |
| 1985 | Leon Manning |
| 1984 | Cary B. Sternberg |
| 1983 | Robert W. Powell |
| 1982 | William W. Hamner |
| 1981 | Blair E. Smith |
| 1980 | Moses Easter, Jr. |
| 1979 | Glen Woodmansee |
| 1978 | Richard Teagle |
| 1977 | Dick Carpenter |
| 1976 | Jerry Hedgepeth |
| 1975 | Libby B. Smith |
| 1974 | Ruth H. Nunnally |
| 1973 | W. M. Simonsen |
| 1972 | Jules R. Frank |
| 1971 | Thomas T. Thompson |
| 1970 | Marby L. Minter |
| 1969 | Howard M. Curtis |
| 1968 | George L. Ailsworth |
| 1967 | C. Lear Ponton |
| 1966 | Erwin B. Drucker |
| 1965 | Thomas Blackman |
| 1964 | Russell Winfree |
| 1963 | George C. Karam |
| 1962 | Joseph Ford |
| 1961 | George C. Karam |
| 1960 | Harry H. Wason |
| 1959 | James Cale, Sr. |
| 1958 | W. E. Casey |
| 1957 | Emmanuel E. Falk |
| 1956 | E. L. Kelly |
| 1955 | Joseph Carpenter |
| 1954 | Louis Drucker |
| 1953 | J. P. Yancey, Jr. |
| 1952 | J. P. Yancey, Jr. |
| 1951 | E. P. Fitzhugh |
| 1950 | Samuel Phillips |
| 1949 | M. W. Abbitt |
| 1948 | No Record |
| 1947 | Charles Mason |
| 1946 | C. D. West, Jr. |
| 1945 | Douglas Pitt |
| 1944 | W. C. Bowen |
| 1943 | W. C. Bowen |
| 1942 | Nelson Overton |
| 1941 | Nelson Overton |
| 1940 | A. A. Applewhite |
| 1939 | T. Archie Nelms |
| 1938 | C. D. West |
| 1937 | A. A. Padgett |
| 1936 | A. A. Padgett |
| 1935 | T. J. Hundley |
| 1934 | T. J. Hundley |
| 1933 | J. W. Jones |
| 1933 | T. J. Hundley |
| 1933 | J. W. Jones |
| 1932 | J. H. Wheeler |
| 1931 | W. Lee Powell |
| 1930 | No Record |
| 1929 | No Record |
| 1928 | No Record |
| 1927 | A. A. Applewhite |
| 1926 | A. A. Padgett |