| 2025 | Honorable Frankie J. Moore | Nebraska |
| 2024 | Honorable Mark Pfeiffer | Missouri |
| 2023 | Honorable Glenn Acree | Kentucky |
| 2022 | Honorable Morris Silberman | Florida |
| 2021 | Honorable Stephen W. Powell | Ohio |
| 2020 | Honorable Brad R. Hill | California |
| 2019 | Honorable Margret G. Robb | Indiana |
| 2018 | Honorable Melanie G. May | Florida |
| 2017 | Honorable William B. Murphy | Michigan |
| 2016 | Honorable William D. Palmer | Florida |
| 2015 | Honorable Vance W. Raye | California |
| 2014 | Honorable John C. Martin | North Carolina |
| 2013 | Honorable Gary W. Lynch | Missouri |
| 2012 | Honorable Sherry Radack | Texas |
| 2011 | Honorable Kate Ford Elliott | Pennsylvania |
| 2010 | Honorable David V. Brewer | Oregon |
| 2009 | Honorable Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux | Louisiana |
| 2008 | Honorable Tom Lytton | Illinois |
| 2007 | Honorable Arthur G. Scotland | California |
| 2006 | Honorable Kaye G. Hearn | South Carolina |
| 2005 | Honorable John F. Irwin | Nebraska |
| 2004 | Honorable Stephen J. McEwen, Jr. | Pennsylvania |
| 2003 | Honorable Anthony V. Cardona | New York |
| 2002 | Honorable Mary J. Deits | Oregon |
| 2001 | Honorable Bud Arnot | Texas |
| 2000 | Honorable Rosemary Shaw Sackett | Iowa |
| 1999 | Honorable Edward Toussaint, Jr. | Minnesota |
| 1998 | Honorable Martin M. Doctoroff | Michigan |
| 1997 | Honorable Guy J. Mangano | New York |
| 1996 | Honorable Charles A. “Corky” Marvin | Louisiana |
| 1995 | Honorable Jesse R. Walters | Idaho |
| 1994 | Honorable Austin McCloud | Texas |
| 1993 | Honorable Carl West Anderson | California |
| 1992 | Honorable Herman D. Michels | New Jersey |
| 1991 | Honorable Alexander M. Sanders, Jr. | South Carolina |
| 1990 | Honorable Robert J. Danhof | Michigan |
| 1989 | Honorable Milton Mollen | New York |
| 1988 | Honorable Burton A. Scott | Wisconsin |
| 1987 | Honorable Richard P. Gilbert | Maryland |
| 1986 | Honorable James Crumlish, Jr. | Pennsylvania |
| 1985 | Honorable George M. Joseph | Oregon |
| 1984 | Honorable Robert K. Puglia | California |
| 1983 | Honorable Clarence A. Guittard | Texas |
| 1982 | Honorable Robert J. Downing | Illinois |
| 1981 | Honorable David W. Enoch | Colorado |
| 1980 | Honorable David W. Enoch | Colorado |