- 1981 Larry A. Jacobson
- 1982 Ralph Wiley
- 1983 Kerry Savage
- 1984 Carroll Chapman
- 1985 Richard D. Felder
- 1986 Robert M. Habiger
- 1987 Cary C. Purdy
- 1988 Tommy V. Ragland
- 1989 Stanley C. Gianzero
- 1990 James D. Klein
- 1991 Terry Hagiwara
- 1992 Roberto Peveraro /Mark Alberty
- 1993 Gabriela Schell
- 1994 Kurt M. Strack
- 1995 John Crowe/Mike Donovan
- 1996 W. David Kennedy
- 1997 Hezhu Yin
- 1998 Thomas D. Barber
- 1999 Abbas Merchant /Terry Hagiwara
- 2000 Rich Ostermeier
- 2001 Qiang Zhou
- 2002 Abbas Merchant
- 2003 Michael Bittar
- 2004 Ken Mitchell
- 2005 Ingo Geldmatcher
- 2006 Ian Zhang
- 2007 Eugene Badea
- 2008 Tsili Wang
- 2009 Hanming Wang
- 2010 Qiming Li
- 2011 Jean-Baptiste Clavaud
- 2012 Jinjuan Zhou