2023     Bud Mayfield, USDA Forest Service

2022     Brian Sullivan, USDA Forest Service

2020     No award given (meeting canceled)

2019     Steve Clarke, USDA Forest Service

2018     No award given

2017     No award given

2016.    No award given

2015     No award given

2014     Lynne Rieske-Kinney, University of Kentucky

2013     John Taylor, USDA Forest Service (retired)

2012     No award given

2011     No award given

2010     Kier Klepzig, USDA Forest Service

2009     Scott Salom, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

2008     Jim Hanula, USDA Forest Service

2007     No award given

2006     No award given

2005     G. Keith Douce, University of Georgia

2004     David Kulhavy, Stephen F. Austin State University

2003     No award given

2002     Forrest L. Oliveria, USDA Forest Service

2001     Richard A. Goyer, Louisiana State University

2000     Coleman A. Doggett, Duke University

1999     John Moser, USDA Forest Service

1998     T. Evan Nebeker, Mississippi State University

1997     R. Scott Cameron, Union Camp Corporation

1996     No award given

1995     Fred P. Hain, North Carolina State University

1994     Kenneth M. Swain, USDA Forest Service (retired)

1993     Peter L. Lorio, Jr., USDA Forest Service

1992     James D. Soloman, USDA Forest Service

1991     Thomas L. Payne, Virginia Poly Tech and State University

1990     Gary L. DeBarr, USDA Forest Service

1989     Frederick M. Stephen, University of Arkansas

1988     Ronald F. Billings, Texas Forest Service

1987     Robert C. Thatcher, USDA Forest Service

1986     Robert N. Coulson, Texas A & M University

1985     C. Wayne Berisford, University of Georgia

1984     No award given

1983     Roger F. Anderson, Duke University