| 2024 | Katherine Hammond |
| 2023 | Tom Allen |
| 2022 | Sheri Reynolds |
| 2021 | Victoria Time |
| 2020 | Ingo Heidbrink |
| 2019 | Tom Socha |
| 2018 | Janet Peery |
| 2017 | Dale Miller |
| 2016 | Randy Gainey |
| 2015 | Luisa Igloria |
| 2014 | Ruth Triplett |
| 2013 | Glen Sussman |
| 2012 | Annette Finley-Croswhite |
| 2011 | Jien Chen |
| 2010 | Steve Yetiv |
| 2009 | Imtiaz Habib |
| 2008 | Adolphus Hailstork |
| 2007 | Dana Heller & Xiushi Yang |
| 2006 | Lucien Lombardo |
| 2005 | Frederick Lubich |
| 2004 | Michael Pearson |
| 2003 | Gary Edgerton |
| 2002 | Jeffrey Ricards |
| 2001 | Lawrence Hatab |
| 2000 | Kenneth Daley |
| 1999 | Susan Kent |
| 1998 | Carl Boyd |
| 1997 | Helen Rountree |
| 1996 | Nancy Bazin |
| 1995 | Lewis Ford |