| 1950 Melvin. Belli | 1989 Consatin V. Roboostoff |
| 1951 J. Francis Shirley | 1990 John McQuinn |
| 1952 Thomas C. Ryan | 1991 E. Gerard Mannion |
| 1953 Newell J. Hooey | 1992 Barbara A. Lawless |
| 1954 Leland Lazarus | 1993 William B. Smith |
| 1955 Lou Ashe | 1994William L. Veen |
| 1956-57 James F. Boccardo | 1995 Arnold R. Levinson |
| 1958 Victor E. Cappa | 1996 Michael A. Kelly |
| 1959 Robert D. Barbagelata | 1997 Hon. Mary E. Wiss |
| 1960 Irving C. Sugarman | 1998 Thomas J. Brandi |
| 1961 Leslie C. Gillen | 1999 Timothy Tietjen |
| 1962 Arthur C. Zeif | 2000 John D. Winer |
| 1963 Jack H. Werchick | 2001 Martin Blake |
| 1964 Robert E. Cartwright | 2002 Hon. Donald J. Sullivan |
| 1965 Bergen Van Brunt | 2003 Scott Kalkin |
| 1966 Nathan Cohn | 2004 Therese M. Lawless |
| 1967 Vernon W. Humber | 2005 Eric Abramson |
| 1968 Leroy Hersh | 2006 James Bulter |
| 1969 Leroy W. Rice | 2007 John Feder |
| 1970 Philip E. Brown | 2008 Linda Ross |
| 1971 Paul A. Eisler | 2009 Hon. Stephen M. Murhpy |
| 1972 James C. Downing | 2010 Linda Scaparotti |
| 1973 John Gardenal | 2011 Jonathan E. Gertler |
| 1974 H. Greig Fowler | 2012 Kathryn Stebner |
| 1975 Michael Lewton | 2013 Todd Schneider |
| 1976 Merril E. Steinberg | 2014 Terrence Coleman |
| 1977 George J. Shelby | 2015 Doris Cheng |
| 1978 Neal R. Winchell | 2016 Chris Dolan |
| 1979 Nancy Hersh | 2017 Anthony Label |
| 1980 Edwin T. Caldwell | 2018 Karin Bohbot |
| 1981 Dennis B. Conklin | 2019 Robert E. Cartwright, Jr. |
| 1982 Daniel J. Kelly | 2020 Markis Willoughby |
| 1983 Edward J. Nevin | 2021 Boone Callaway |
| 1984 Kenneth W. Rosenthal | 2022 Chuck Geerhart |
| 1985 Norman Sauer | 2023 Mark Zanobini |
| 1986 Albert R. Abramson | 2024 Sandra Ribera Speed |
| 1987 Michael B. Moore | 2025 P. Bobby Shukla |
| 1988 Maja Hanks (Ramsey) | 2026 John Vannucci |