Elsie Paris (1996)

Amy Andreasen (1997)

Kathy Lohmann (1997)

Karen Mayne (1997)

Frances Sowers (1998)

Helen Crawford (1999)

Mary Nelle Connelly (2000)

Bettianne Gordon (2001)

Pat Webb (2002)

Anne Clough (2003)

Sandra Rousseau (2004)

Sally Long and Freddy Meindl (2005)

Susan Gimmestad (2006)

Karin Baldzer (2007)

Chris Powers (2008)

Pat Olson (2009)

Sue Cross (2010)

Gay Dull and Ellie Kohler* (2011)

Jan Gaylord (2012)

Sara Moore and Dianne Enslow (2013)

Lynne Wepfer (2014)

Ann Donaldson (2015)

Cissa Fleming (2016)

Carol Griffin and Sylvia Mallarino (2017)

Marylou Foley (2018)

Val Peterson (2019)

Michaelle Arkin (2020)

Jeannie Lightsey and Sylvia Romeijn (2021)

Judy Willis (2022)

Sylvia Romeijn (2023)

* Award presented posthumously