2023 Ashleigh R. Madison, Southeastern Georgia

2022 Charles A. Bently, Jr., Eastern North Carolina

2021 S. Lester Tate, III, Georgia

2020 Edward G. Bowron, Alabama

2019 David M. Duke, Eastern North Carolina

2018 Clinton L. Kelly, Tennessee

2017 John Banahan, Mississippi

2016 Edward Hardin, Alabama

2015 Luke Dove, Mississippi

2014 Wayne A. Ritchie, II, Tennessee

2013 *Joseph L. McNamara, Mississippi

2012 Darryl E. Baker, Arkansas

2011 Luther J. Battiste, III, South Carolina

2010 *John T. Rogers, Tennessee

2009 Grady F. Tollison, Mississippi

2008 Harry T. Widmann, Louisiana

2007 Andrew R. Blank, Georgia

2006 F. Dulin Kelly, Tennessee

2005 J. Lewis Cromer, South Carolina

2004 J. Lewis Cromer, South Carolina

* deceased