1986 | Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans (Trustee) & R. Taylor Cole (Faculty/Staff) |
1987 | Juanita Kreps (Trustee) & Reynolds Price (Faculty/Staff) |
1988 | W. M. Upchurch, Jr. (Trustee) & Richard L. Watson, Jr. (Faculty/Staff) |
1989 | Kenneth Goodson (Trustee) & Marcus E. Hobbs (Faculty/Staff) |
1990 | Charles B. Wade (Trustee) & Mary Grace Wilson (Faculty/Staff) |
1991 | Marshall I. Pickens (Trustee) & Anne Firor Scott (Faculty/Staff) |
1992 | David C. Sabiston, Jr. (Faculty/Staff) & Terry Sanford (Faculty/Staff) |
1993 | Samuel Dubois Cook (Trustee) & Pelham Wilder, Jr. (Faculty/Staff) |
1994 | Isobel Craven Drill (Trustee) & Paul J. Dumas (Faculty/Staff) |
1995 | John W. Chandler (Trustee) & Anne Walker Garrard (Faculty/Staff) |
1996 | William Griffith (Faculty/Staff) & Eugene Stead, M.D. (Faculty/Staff) |
1997 | Charles Johnson (Faculty/Staff) & Mike Krzyzewski (Faculty/Staff) |
1998 | Thomas Langford (Faculty/Staff) |
1999 | The award was not given this year. Honorary degrees were awarded to Anthony D. Duke & James H. Semans instead. |
2000 | Robert F. Durden (Faculty/Staff) & Ella Fountain Pratt (Faculty/Staff) |
2001 | Susan Bennett King (Trustee) & Thomas F. Keller (Faculty/Staff) |
2002 | John Alexander McMahon (Trustee) & William G. Anlyan (Faculty/Staff) |
2003 | A. Morris Williams, Jr. (Trustee), Joseph G. Pietrantoni (Faculty/Staff) & Nannerl O. Keohane (Faculty/Staff) |
2004 | Ernestine Friedl (Faculty/Staff) & Samuel L. Katz (Faculty/Staff) |
2005 | William E. King (Faculty/Staff) |
2006 | Ruby Leila Wilson (Faculty/Staff) & William "Jimmy" Wallace, Jr. (Faculty/Staff) |
2007 | John A. Koskinen (Trustee) & John J. Piva Jr. (Faculty/Staff) |
2008 | John A. Forlines, Jr. (Trustee) & N. Allison Haltom (Faculty/Staff) |
2009 | Joel L. Fleishman (Faculty/Staff) & Ernest Mario (Trustee) |
2010 | Jean Fox O'Barr (Faculty/Staff) & Robert Steel (Trustee) |
2011 | James Bonk (Faculty/Staff) & Karl von der Heyden (Trustee) |
2012 | Rebecca Trent Kirkland (Trustee) & Judith L. Ruderman (Faculty/Staff) |
2013 | Daniel T. Blue, Jr. (Trustee) & Gerald L. Wilson (Faculty/Staff) |
2014 | Cookie Anspach Kohn (Trustee) & Horst Meyer (Faculty/Staff) |
2015 | Al Buehler (Faculty/Staff) & Paula Burger (Trustee) |
2016 | Oscar Dantzler (Faculty/Staff) & Bruce Karsh (Trustee) |
2017 | Catherine Gilliss (Faculty/Staff) & Peter Lange (Faculty/Staff) |
2018 | Thomas Gorrie (Trustee) & Sally Robinson (Trustee) |
2019 | David M. Rubenstein (Trustee) & Brenda Armstrong (Faculty/Staff, posthumous award) |
2021 | G. Richard Wagoner, Jr. (Trustee); Peter M. Nicholas (Trustee); MaryAnn Black (Faculty/Staff, posthumous award) |
2022 | Richard H. Brodhead (Faculty/Staff) & Janet Hill (Trustee, posthumous award) |
2023 | Roy J. Bostock (Trustee) & Jack O. Bovender, Jr. (Trustee) |