2012 Gert Biesta
2011 Eamonn Callan
2010 Audrey Thompson
2009 David Hansen
2008 Michael Katz
2007 Susan Laird
2006 Sharon Bailin
2005 Robert Floden
2004 Francis Schrag
2003 Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon
2002 Barbara Houston
2001 Nicholas Burbules
2000 James Garrison
1999 Emily Robertson
1998 Ann Diller
1997 Dwight Boyd
1996 Betty Sichel
1995 Harvey Siegel
1994 Kenneth Strike
1993 Clive Beck
1992 Nel Noddings
1991 D.C. Phillips
1990 Barbara Arnstine
1989 Walter Feinberg
1988 Mary Anne Raywid
1987 David Nyberg
1986 Jerrold Coombs
1985 Hugh Petrie
1984 CJB Macmillan
1983 Gerald Reagan
1982 George Newsome
1981 Jane Roland Martin
1980 Richard Pratte
1979 Robert Ennis
1978 Young Pai
1977 Robert Heslep
1976 Thomas Green
1975 Jonas Soltis
1974 Kingsley Price
1973 Donald Arnstine
1972 Philip Phenix
1971 Joe Park
1970 D. Bob Gowin
1969 Joe Burnett
1968 Martin Levit
1967 Maxine Greene
1966 Philip G. Smith
1965 Van Cleve Morris
1964 J. Donald Butler
1963 George E. Barton
1962 Ernest E. Bayles
1961 Robert H. Beck
1960 A. Stafford Clayton
1959 Everett Kirscher
1958 Robert J. Henle
1957 B. Othanel Smith
1956 Lawrence G. Thomas
1955 William O. Stanley
1954 Harry S. Broudy
1953 Frank C. Wegener
1952 Louise Antz
1951 Kenneth D. Benne
1950 George T. Axtelle
1949 H. Gordon Hullfish
1948 Theodore Brameld
1947 John S. Brubacher
1942 R. Bruce Raup