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1980

M. P Wilkerson, Montgomery; University Television Services, Tuscaloosa; Parisian's, Huntsville; Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Anniston/Montgomery; Fantasy Playhouse, Huntsville; Betty Ferguson Brice, The Birmingham Ballet, Birmingham; Alabama Dance Theatre, Montgomery; The New Cadek Piano Quartet, Tuscaloosa; The Mobile Opera, Mobile; Kentuck Association, Northport; Eastern Shore Art Association, Fairhope; Macon County Fine Arts Manifesto, Tuskegee; Jasmine Hill Arts Council, Wetumpka.

1981

Jeanne Shaffer, Montgomery; Loyd Tygett, Huntsville; Carl Morgan, Selma; Martha Dick McClung, Birmingham; Billie F. Goodloe, Mobile; Mary W Tartt, Livingston; Barry E. Broach, Florence; Mr. L. Wade Black, Huntsville; Harriet Sumner, Mentone; Arts and Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa County; Education Division, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Birmingham.

1982

Junior League of Tuscaloosa; Charles Harbour, Montevallo; Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham; Fine Arts Department at the Jefferson County Board of Education; Penelope Cunningham, Birmingham; Birmingham Children's Theatre; Ramona Baker, Huntsville; Nan Callen, Gadsden; John Cottle, Jr., Tallassee; Betty Dardess, Tuscumbia; John Hall, Montgomery; Philip Murkett, Montgomery; Luella Henderson, Enterprise; Faye Perry, Talladega; Gordon Tatum, Mobile; Patsy Pollard, Mobile.

1983

Joseph Schreiber, Birmingham; W. Smith Foundation, Mobile; Betty Soule', Huntsville; The Tuscaloosa Community Players; Roy M. Underwood, Sumter County ; Dr. William S. Warren, Gadsden; Representative Mary S. Zoghby, Mobile; Auburn Arts Association; Phil Coley, Montgomery; Emory M. Folmar, Mayor, City of Montgomery; Greenville Area Arts Council; Junior League of Birmingham; Kennedy Douglass Center, Florence; Louise Rodgers, Huntsville; Turner Rogers, Mobile; Junior League of Birmingham.

1984

Alabama, the band; The Altrusa Club of Gadsden; Georgine Clarke, Northport; Edwina Peake, Dothan; Christine Richard, Huntsville; Cynthia Nicholson, Mobile; Gladys Tartt Brown, Sylacauga ; Robert W. Weil, Montgomery; Josephine Ayers, Anniston; Talladega Heritage Commission; Dewey Williams, Ozark; Basil Gilchrist, Gadsden; Betty Wagoner, Troy; Senator Frances "Sister" Strong, Demopolis; Frances Heath, Mobile; LBW Community Arts Council, Andalusia.

1985

Senator Ted Little, Auburn; Craig Nutt, Northport; Margaret Carpenter, Montgomery; Gray Boone, Tuscaloosa; Aetna Life and Casualty Foundation; Sylacauga Area Council on Arts and Humanities; Carol Ogus, Montgomery; City of Montgomery; John Katopodis, Birmingham.

1986

William Dawson, Tuskegee; City of Tuskegee; The Huntsville Times; Elaine Johnson, Dothan; Performing Arts Association, Foley; Jack Warner, Tuscaloosa; Lula Wall, Tuscaloosa; Barbara Kimberlin, Florence.

1987

Representative Bobby Junkins, Gadsden; Representative Jimmy Clarke, Eufauga; Grace Mussafer Hanchrow, Montgomery; Michael C. Dow, Mayor, City of Mobile; Gary L. Trentham, Opelika; Mrs. Dot Davis, Huntsville; City of Birmingham; Delchamps, Inc., Mobile; Ann Delchamps, Mobile; Panoply, Huntsville.

1989

Randy Schrimser, Huntsville; Cheryl Carter, Montgomery; Cecil Roberts, Birmingham; Opelika Arts Council, T. Rodney Smith, Auburn; Doug Perry, Montgomery; Frank Helderman, Gadsden.

1991

Ann Everett, Russellville; Margaret Scruggs Guinther, Jasper; Consuela Lee-Moorehead, Snow Hill; Philip Morris, Birmingham; Dorothy Altman (Tut) Riddick, Mobile.

1993

Marjorie Benson, Ozark; Mary Ward Brown, Browns; Jayne Honea Lowry, Huntsville; Honorable James Scott Sledge, Gadsden; J. David Stout, Fort Payne; Zelpha Storey Wells, Tuscaloosa.

1995

Cleveland Eaton, Birmingham; Jean Galloway, Mobile; Helen Ellis Johnston, Huntsville; Kathryn Tucker Windham, Selma.

1997

Laura Blum Knox, Birmingham; Frank Morring, Huntsville; Inez Singleton, Eutaw; Robert Weil, Montgomery.

1999

William E. (Bill) Briscoe, Decatur;  Bob G. Smith, Montgomery; Tommie (Tonea) Stewart, Montgomery; Alice Green Thornton, Troy; Sarah Carlisle Towery, Alexander City.

2001

Frederick Kimbrough, Gilbertown; Dyann Robinson, Tuskegee; Betty Schonrock, Huntsville; Charles Stakely, Montgomery. 

2003

Dr. Johnny Long, Troy; Amada W. Penick, Tuscaloosa; Cecil Whitmire, Birmingham.

2005

Betty Grisham, Huntsville; Bobby Horton, Birmingham; CJimmy Lee Sudduth, Fayette.

2007

Kathy Chan, Huntsville; Thomas Hinds, Montgomery; Paul Looney, Tuscaloosa.

2009

Alvin Sella, Tuscaloosa; Dr. Mabry Miller, Huntsville; Hugh Williams, Auburn; Ward Swingle, Mobile/France.

2011

Joyce Cauthen, Birmingham; Dale Kennington, Dothan; Sena Jeter Naslund, Birmingham/Louisville; Dr. Henry Panion, Birmingham.

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