2023 Jennifer Sughrue Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, FL
2022 Julie F. Mead, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
2021 John Borkowski, Husch Blackwell, LLP, South Bend, IN
2020 Susan C. Bon, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
2019 Wayne Haglund, Haglund Law Firm. P.C., Lufkin, TX
2018 Suzanne E. Eckes, Indiana University-Bloomington, IN
2017 Lynn Rossi Scott, Brackett & Ellis, TX
2016 R. Craig Wood, University of Florida, FL
2015 Patrick D. Pauken, Bowling Green State University, OH
2014 Kenneth E. Lane, Southeastern Louisiana University, LA
2013 William E. Thro, University of Kentucky, KY
2012 Susan G. Clark, University of Akron, OH
2011 Edwin C. Darden, Appleseed, VA
2010 Brad Colwell, Bowling Green State University, OH
2009 Kathleen Crume, Academy School District 20, CO
2008 Christopher P. Borreca, Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, TX
2007 M. David Alexander, Virginia Tech, VA
2006 Lois F. Berlin, Falls Church City Public Schools, VA
2005 P. Tyson Bennett, Reese & Carney, LLP, MD
2004 Philip T.K. Daniel, The Ohio State University, OH
2003 Allan G. Osborne, Jr., Snug Harbor Community School, MA
2002 R. Craig Wood, McGuire Woods LLP, VA
2001 Ralph D. Mawdsley, Cleveland State University, OH
2000 Terrence Leas, Yakima Valley College, WA
1999 Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton, OH
1998 Jeffrey J. Horner, Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, TX
1997 Richard Dickinson, Ohio School Boards Association, OH
1996 Perry A. Zirkel, Lehigh University, PA
1995 Ivan Gluckman, National Association of Secondary Schools, VA
1994 Nelda Cambron-McCabe, Miami University of Ohio-Oxford, OH
1993 Steve W. Batson, West Virginia State College, WV
1992 James C. Ullman, Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, AZ
1991 Joseph C. Beckham, Florida State University-Tallahassee, FL
1990 Stephen B. Thomas, Kent State University, OH
1989 Marvyn D. Jaffe, Staples High School, CT
1988 William C. Bednar, Jr., Eskew, Muir & Bednar, TX
1987 D. Parker Young, University of Georgia-Athens, GA
1986 John F. Lewis, Squire Sanders & Dempsey, OH
1985 Martha M. McCarthy, Indiana University-Bloomington, IN
1984 Dale Gaddy, National School Boards Association, VA
1983 Ralph D. Stern, Whitmore & Kay, CA
1982 William F. Paton, Oconomowoc Public Schools, WI
1981 Floyd G. Delon, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO
1980 Burton R. Shifman, Shifman & Goodman, PC, MI
1979 Kelly Frels, Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, TX
1978 Philip K. Piele, University of Oregon, OR
1977 August W. Steinhilber, National School Boards Association, MD
1976 Irving C. Evers, Attorney at Law, Hackensack, NJ
1975 M. Chester Nolte, University of Denver, CO
1974 Robert E. Phay, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC
1973 Roger M. Shaw, Kent State University, OH