| 2023 | L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin | ||
| 2022 | Hon. Noel Eason Primos | ||
| 2021 | Joan DelFattore, Ph.D. | ||
| 2020 | Hon. Michael W. Arrington | ||
| 2019 | Shawn L. Nesbit, MBA | ||
| 2018 | Hon. James T. Vaughn, Jr. | ||
| 2017 | Joseph A. Napoli, M.D., DDS | ||
| 2016 | Hon. William L. Witham, Jr. | ||
| 2015 | Hon. Anne Hartnett Reigle | ||
| 2014 | Hon. Charles H. Toliver, IV | ||
| 2013 | Hon. Myrna L. Bair, Ph.D. | ||
| 2012 | Martin S. Lessner, Esq. | ||
| 2011 | Hon. James P. Neal | ||
| 2010 | Mark Turner | ||
| 2009 | David S. Swayze, Esq. | ||
| 2008 | Patrick Murray | ||
| 2007 | Hon. Henry duPont Ridgely | ||
| 2006 | David E. Hollowell, MBA | ||
| 2005 | G. Irvin Lipp | ||
| 2004 | Justin Carisio | ||
| 2003 | Hon. Jane P. Maroney | ||
| 2002 | Samuel L. Waltz, Jr., APR | ||
| 2001 | David P. Roselle, Ph.D. | ||
| 2000 | Anthony G. Flynn, Sr., Esq. | ||
| 1999 | Robert J. Krapf, Esq. | ||
| 1998 | R. Thorpe Moeckel | ||
| 1997 | H. Murray Sawyer, Jr. | ||
| 1996 | Joseph E. Carbonell, III, AIA | ||
| 1995 | F. L. Peter Stone, Esq. | ||
| 1994 | Richard E. Poole, Esq. | ||
| 1993 | Hon. Jerome O. Herlihy | ||
| 1992 | Stanley G. Budner | ||
| 1991 | Robert B. Rickards | ||
| 1990 | David H. Burdash | ||
| 1989 | Hon. Andrew G. T. Moore, II | ||
| 1988 | Hon. Charles K. Keil | ||
| 1987 | Gilbert S. Scarborough, Jr. | ||
| 1986 | Stephen E. Herrmann, Esq. | ||
| 1985 | Thomas L. Clark | ||
| 1984 | Louis L. Redding, Esq. | ||
| 1983 | Donald A. Rydgren | ||
| 1982 | Thomas Herlihy, III, Esq. | ||
| 1981 | Rabbi Herbert E. Drooz | ||
| 1980 | Robert R. Hoopes, DD.S. | ||
| 1979 | Paul E. Shipley | ||
| 1978 | William G. Moeckel, AIA | ||
| 1977 | William W. Swayze, III | ||
| 1976 | Donald W. Booker, Esq. | ||
| 1975 | Hon. Thomas Herlihy, Jr. | ||
| 1974 | Hon. Clarence W. Taylor | ||
| 1973 | Arnold Goldsborough | ||
| 1972 | Hon. Daniel L. Herrmann | ||
| 1971 | Hon. C. Douglass Buck, Jr. | ||
| 1970 | Clement C. Wood, Esq. | ||
| 1969 | W. Murray Metten | ||
| 1968 | Hon. Caleb M. Wright | ||
| 1967 | Ward W. Briggs, M.D. | ||
| 1966 | Harold Brayman | ||
| 1965 | Peter Allison | ||
| 1964 | Albert W. James, Esq. | ||
| 1963 | Hon. H. Albert Young | ||
| 1962 | H. Edmund Bullis | ||
| 1961 | Philip J. Nowland | ||
| 1960 | W. Albert Haddock | ||
| 1959 | Hon. Henry W. Bryan | ||
| 1958 | Samuel Lenher | ||
| 1958 | Edwin P. Neilan | ||
| 1957 | Samuel Lenher | ||
| 1956 | Samuel Lenher | ||
| 1955 | Pierre S. duPont, III | ||
| 1954 | Pierre S. duPont, III | ||
| 1953 | Pierre S. duPont, III | ||
| 1952 | Pierre S. duPont, III | ||
| 1951 | Frank E. Schoonover | ||
| 1950 | Frank E. Schoonover | ||
| 1949 | Hon. Percy Warren Green | ||
| 1948 | James R. Frorer | ||
| 1947 | Frank H. McCormick | ||
| 1946 | Alfred D. Warner, Jr. | ||
| 1945 | J. Edgar Rhoads | ||
| 1944 | J. Edgar Rhoads | ||
| 1943 | J. Edgar Rhoads | ||
| 1942 | G. Morris Whiteside, AIA | ||
| 1941 | G. Morris Whiteside, AIA | ||
| 1940 | John K. Garrigues | ||
| 1939 | Paul J. Nowland | ||
| 1938 | J. Edgar Rhoads | ||
| 1937 | William F. Metten | ||
| 1936 | Joesph Bancroft | ||
| 1935 | Walter J. Hullihen, Ph.D. | ||
| 1934 | Hon. William H. Heald, LL.D. | ||
| 1933 | Frank G. Tallman | ||
| 1932 | Hon. Thomas F. Bayard | ||
| 1931 | Hon. William H. Heald, LL.D. | ||
| 1930 | The Reverend Charles L. Candee D.D. | ||
| 1929 | The Reverend Charles L. Candee D.D. |