| 2018-19 | Jamie Wong | Louisiana |
| 2017-18 | Santina Thibedeau  | New Hampshire |
| 2016-17 | Glenna Gallo  | Washington |
| 2015-16 | John Eisenberg  | Virginia |
| 2014-15 | Frank Podobnik  | Montana |
| 2013-14 | Fred Balcom  | California |
| 2012-13 | Colleen Riley  | Kansan |
| 2011-12 | Peg Brown-Clark  | Wyoming/Colorado |
| 2010-11 | Bambi Lockman  | Florida |
| 2009-10 | Marcia Harding  | Arkansas |
| 2008-09 | Mary Watson  | North Carolina |
| 2007-08 | Mabrey Whetstone  | Alabama |
| 2006-07 | Jacquelyn Thompson  | Michigan |
| 2005-06 | Mike Armstrong  | Ohio |
| 2004-05 | Doug Cox  | Virginia |
| 2003-04 | Alice Parker  | California |
| 2002-03 | Steve Johnson  | Oregon |
| 2001-02 | Robert Runkel  | Montana |
| 2000-01 | Larry Gloeckler  | New York |
| 1999-00 | Martha Brooks  | Delaware |
| 1998-99 | John Herner  | Ohio |
| 1997-98 | John Corpolongo  | Oklahoma |
| 1996-97 | Bill East  | Alabama |
| 1995-96 | Diane Sydoriak  | Arkansas |
| 1994-95 | Gail Lieberman  | Illinois |
| 1993-94 | David Stockford  | Maine |
| 1992-93 | John Heskett  | Missouri |
| 1991-92 | Steve Kukic  | Utah |
| 1990-91 | Tom Gillung  | Connecticut |
| 1989-90 | Norena Hale  | Minnesota |
| 1988-89 | Lowell Harris  | North Carolina |
| 1987-88 | Frank New  | Ohio |
| 1986-87 | John Clark  | Nebraska |
| 1985-86 | Gary Makuch  | Pennsylvania |
| 1984-85 | Martha Fields  | Maryland |
| 1983-84 | Joseph Fisher  | Illinois |
| 1982-83 | Robert Black  | South Carolina |
| 1981-82 | Peter Fanning  | Colorado |
| 1980-81 | Samuel Bonham  | Ohio |
| 1979-80 | Leonard Hall  | Missouri |
| 1978-79 | Don Weston  | Texas |
| 1977-78 | Judy Schrag  | Idaho |
| 1976-77 | Gilbert A. Bliton  | Indiana |
| 1975-76 | Wendy Cullar  | Florida |
| 1974-75 | L. "Smokey" Davis | Nevada |
| 1973-74 | Herbert Nash  | Georgia |
| 1972-73 | William Ohrtman  | Pennsylvania |
| 1971-72 | Elwood Pace  | Utah |
| 1970-71 | Leslie Brinegar  | California |
| 1969-70 | Landis Stetler  | Florida |
| 1968-69 | Stella Edwards  | Kentucky |
| 1967-68 | Don L. Partridge  | Texas |
| 1966-67 | Charles W. Watson  | California |
| 1965-66 | James E. Marshall  | Kansas |
| 1964-65 | Raphael Simches  | New York |
| 1963-64 | John Melcher  | Wisconsin |
| 1962-63 | Dorothy Seigle  | Illinois |
| 1961-62 | W. R. Burris  | Mississippi |
| 1960-61 | Mamie Jo Jones  | Georgia |
| 1959-60 | Kuhn Barnett | Virginia |
| 1958-59 | Guy Thompson  | Arkansas |
| 1957-58 | Robert Gates  | Florida |
| 1956-57 | John E. Taylor  | Oregon |
| 1955-56 | Amy Allen  | Ohio |
| 1954-55 | A. Leroy Taylor  | Oklahoma |
| 1953-54 | Felix Barker  | North Carolina |
| 1952-53 | Joseph Endres | New York |
| 1951-52 | Gwen Rutherford | Kentucky |
| 1950-51 | Ray Graham  | Illinois |
| 1950-51 | Frank Doyle  | California |
