| 2022 | Betty Braxter (PhD '03) |
| 2022 | Lora Burke (PhD '97) |
| 2022 | Bridget Olivia Howard (BSN '96) |
| 2022 | Diane Hupp (DNP '14) |
| 2022 | Dawndra Jones (DNP '14) |
| 2022 | Marci Zsamboky (MSN '94) |
| 2021 | Jennifer Linger (MSN `98, PhD `04) |
| 2021 | Marci Nilsen (BSN `05, MSN `08, PhD `13) |
| 2021 | Joanne McMahon-Boyd (BSN `81) |
| 2021 | Kristen Brown (BSN `01) |
| 2020 | Sandra Bowles (BSN'61, MNEd '64) |
| 2020 | J. Margo Brooks Carthon (MSN '98) |
| 2020 | Tamra Minnier (BSN '84, MSN '85) |
| 2020 | Janice Selekman (BSN '69) |
| 2020 | Debra Thompson (BSN '77, MSN '81, PhD '10) |
| 2019 | Theresa Brown, Ph., RN, (BSN ‘07) |
| 2018 | Alan Bernstein (BSN ’00) |
| 2017 | Patricia D. Horoho (MSN ’92) |
| 2016 | Deborah Trautman, PhD, RN, FAAN (MSN '87) |
| 2015 | Cathy Frasca, FACHCA (BSNED '60) |
| 2014 | Prakin Suchaxaya, PhD (MSN '81, PhD '84) |
| 2013 | Andrea Mazzoccoli, PhD (PhD '06) |
| 2012 | Catherine Dischner, MSN, RN, SES (BSN '73) |
| 2011 | Lora E. Burke, PhD, MPH, FAHA, FAAN (PhD '97, MPH '98) |
| 2011 | Nancy L. Rothman, Ed.D. (BSN '63) |
| 2010 | Mary L. Bond, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN (MN '73) |
| 2010 | Ruby L. Wilson, Ed.D., RN, FAAN (BSNED '54) |
| 2009 | Linda Ree Phillips, PhD, RN, FAAN (BSN '80) |
| 2008 | Pearl B. Moore, MN, RN, FAAN (BSN '68, MN '74) |
| 2008 | Terri E. Weaver, PhD, RN (BSN '73) |
| 2007 | Vunvilai Chandrabha, PhD (BSN '63, MN '72, PhD '75 |
| 2007 | Phoebe D. Williams, PhD, RN (MN '70, PhD '72 |
| 2006 | Bernadette V. Melnyk, PhD, RN, CPNP/PMHNP (MSN '83) |
| 2006 | John M. O'Donnell, Dr.P.H. (MSN '91, DrPH '09) |
| 2006 | Victoria L. Rich, PhD, RN, FAAN (MSN '84, PhD '91) |
| 2005 | Holly A. Williams, PhD (BSN '76) |
| 2005 | Richard A. Henker, PhD (MSN '02) |
| 2005 | Patricia R. Messmer, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN (BSN '67, PhD '88) |
| 2004 | Judith A. Erlen, PhD (BSN '66) |
| 2004 | Linda R. Frank, PhD, FAAN (MSN '83, PhD '90) |
| 2004 | Mary Elizabeth Kerr, PhD, FAAN (MNED '81) |
| 2003 | Helen Kissell Burns, PhD, RN, FAAN (MN '81, PhD '93) |
| 2003 | Margaret S. Miles, PhD, RN, FAAN (MN '65) |
| 2003 | Madeline Renee Turkeltaub, PhD (MN '70) |
| 2002 | Rose Eva Bana Constantino, PhD (MN '71, PhD '79) |
| 2001 | Patricia D. O'Donoghue, PhD (MN '73, PhD '88) |
| 2000 | Irene Isabell Riddle, PhD, RN (PhD '70) |
| 1999 | Margaret J. Grey, Dr.P.H. (BSN '70) |
| 1998 | Yu-Mei Yu Chao, PhD (MNED '67, PhD '79) |
| 1997 | Maryann F. Fralic, Dr.P.H. (MN '73, DrPH '82) |
| 1996 | Beryl Haughton Jackson, PhD (MN '72, PhD '82) |
| 1995 | Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, FAAN, ANEF (MNED '75, PhD '80) |
| 1994 | Judith A. Ritchie, PhD (MN '69, PhD '75) |
| 1993 | Davina J. Gosnell, PhD, RN, FAAN (BSN '67) |
| 1992 | Donna G. Nativio, PhD (BSN '63, MSHYG '67, PhD '86) |
| 1990 | Rachel I. Poole, PhD (BSN '47, MLIT '52, PhD '77) |
| 1989 | E. Jane Martin, PhD (MN '73, PhD '79) |
| 1988 | Ramona Thieme Mercer, PhD (PhD '73) |
| 1987 | Joyce May Yuksic Yasko, PhD (MNEd '76, PhD '81) |
| 1986 | Corinne Ann Barnes, PhD (BSNED '60, MN '64, PhD '74. |
| 1985 | Irene Grieve McLenahan (MLIT '54, MPH '62) |
| 1984 | Dr. Mary Virginia Neal (MLIT '52) |
| 1983 | Maureen Rusnock (MNED '67, MN '72) |
| 1982 | Dorothy Ann Mereness (MLIT '48) |
| 1981 | Stella R. Yaksich, PhD (BSNED '53, MPH '58, PhD '69) |
| 1980 | Virginia Grace Braley, PhD (BSNED '43, MLIT '48, PhD '59) |
| 1979 | Betty Louise Evans, PhD (BSNED '54, MLIT '57, PhD '68) |
| 1978 | A. Alice Kindling (BSN '63, MSN '66, MSHYG '84) |
| 1977 | Sr. Rosemary Donley (MSNED '66, PhD '72) |
| 1976 | Enid Detlor Goldberg, PhD (BSNED '50, MLIT '53, PhD '68) |
| 1975 | Dorothy A Cornelius (BSNED '42) |
| 1974 | Sally Buseck Rouch, Dr.P.H. (BSN '57, MPH '72, DrPH '75) |
| 1973 | Irene Laverne Rocereto, PhD (MLIT '58, PhD '72) |
| 1972 | Emily W. Holmquist (BSNED ‘41, MA '44) |
| 1970 | Ellen E. Chaffee (MLIT '50) |
| 1969 | Mary Louise Brown (BUN '48, MLIT '50) |
| 1968 | Lucie S. Young Kelly, PhD (BSN '47, MLIT '57, PhD '65) |
| 1966 | Florence H. Erickson, PhD (BSNED '47, MLIT '50, PhD '57) |