2025 – Patrick Wheaton, Georgia Southern University
2024 – Carl M. Cates, Independent Scholar
2023 – Ann E. Burnette, Texas State University
2022 – Tina Harris, Louisiana State University
2021 – Wendy Atkins-Sayre, University of Memphis
2020 – Shawn Long, Kennesaw State University — Deceased — Link to Tribute
2019 – Pam Bourland-Davis, Georgia Southern University
2018 – Jason Munsell, University of South Carolina Aiken
2017 – Victoria Gallagher, North Carolina State University
2016- Roseann Mandziuk, Texas State University
2015 – Jean DeHart, Appalachian State University
2014 – John Haas, University of Tennessee
2013 – John Meyer, University of Southern Mississippi
2012 – Monette Callaway, Hinds Community College
2011 – Frances Brandau, Sam Houston State University
2010 – Tom Socha, Old Dominion University
2009 – Patricia Amason, University of Arkansas
2008 – Jerry Hale, University of Georgia
2007 – Craig Allen Smith, North Carolina State University
2006 – Charles H. Tardy, University of Southern Mississippi
2005 – Kenneth N. Cissna, University of South Florida
2004 – Terry Thibodeaux, Sam Houston State University
2003 – Marilyn Young, Florida State University
2002 – Katherine W. Hawkins, Wichita State University
2001 – Trudy L. Hanson, West Texas A & M University
2000 – Mary Evelyn Collins, Sam Houston State University
1999 – Gary A. Copeland, University of Alabama
1998 – Susan Siltanen, University of Southern Mississippi
1997 – Renee Edwards, Louisiana State University
1996 – Nina-Jo Moore, Appalachian State University
1995 – Lynne M. Webb, University of Memphis
1994 – Thomas S. Frentz, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
1993 – Navita Cummings James, University of South Florida
1992 – Lawrence A. Hosman, University of Southern Mississippi
1991 – Howard Dorgan, Appalachian State University
1990 – E. Culpepper Clark, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1989 – James L. Applegate, University of Kentucky
1988 – Martha Solomon, Auburn University
1987 – Richard R. Ranta, University of Memphis
1986 – Keith V. Erickson, University of Southern Mississippi
1985 – Robert N. Bostrom, University of Kentucky
1984 – Dale G. Leathers, University of Georgia
1983 – Jerry L. Tarver, University of Richmond
1982 – Michael M. Osborn, University of Memphis
1981 – Ralph T. Eubanks, University of West Florida
1980 – Mary Frances Hopkins, Louisiana State University
1979 – Carl L. Kell, Western Kentucky University
1978 – Bert E. Bradley, Auburn University
1977 – J. Donald Ragsdale, Louisiana State University
1976 – Calvin M. Logue, University of Georgia
1975 – Beverly Whitaker Long, University of Texas, Austin
1974 – Dwight L. Freshley, University of Georgia
1973 – Wayne N. Thompson, University of Houston
1972 – John I. Sisco, University of South Florida
1971 – E. Samuel Dudley, Mississippi State University
1970 – Gregg Phifer, Florida State University
1969 – Waldo W. Braden, Louisiana State University
1968 – Marguerite Metcalf, Catholic High School (Ark.)
1967 – L. L. Zimmerman, University of Florida
1966 – Franklin Shirley, Wake Forrest University
1965 – James E. Popvich, University of South Florida
1964 – Carroll B. Ellis, David Lipscomb College
1963 – Roy D. Murphy, University of Southwestern Louisiana
1962 – Roy E. Tew, University of Florida
1961 – William S. Smith, Auburn University
1960 – Joseph C. Wetherby, Duke University
1959 – McDonald Held, Howard Payne College
1958 – H. Hardy Perritt, University of Alabama
1957 – Thomas R. Lewis, Florida State University
1956 – Elton Abernathy, Southwest Texas State University
1955 – Frank B. Davis, Alabama Polytechnic Institute
1954 – Louise Davison, Davison School of Speech Correction
1953 – Charles M. Getchell, University of Mississippi
1952 – Batsell B. Baxter, David Lipscomb College
1951 – Betty May Collins, Memphis Technological High School
1950 – Claude L. Shaver, Louisiana State University
1949 – Glenn R. Capp, Baylor University
1948- Charles A. McGlon, Baptist Theological Seminary
1947 – Lester L. Hale, University of Florida
1946 – Hazel Abbot, Converse College
1945 – Robert B. Capel, Northwestern State College
1944 – Robert B. Capel, Northwestern State College
1943 – Paul L. Soper, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
1942 – Leroy Lewis, Duke University
1941 – Dallas C. Dickey, University of Florida
Albert M. Harris, Vanderbilt University (Honorary)
1940 – Louise A. Sawyer, Georgia State Women’s College
1939 – T. Earle Johnson, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
1938 – James Watt Raine, Berea College
1937 – Orville C. Miller, Vanderbilt University
1936 – Giles W. Gray, Louisiana State University
1935 – Rose B. Johnson, Woodlawn High School (Ala.)
1934 – C. M. Wise, Louisiana State University
1933 – Henry P. Constans, University of Florida
1932 – Frances K. Gooch, Agnes Scott College
1931 – Edwin Paget, North Carolina State University
1930 – Edwin Paget, North Carolina State University
