Previous recipients

 2009 
Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans
(Chicago)

2008 
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman  
(New York)

2007 
Chief Justice Christine M. Durham  
(Utah)

2006 
Judge Edward R. Brunner  
(Wisconsin) 

2005 
Presiding Judge Louraine C. Arkfeld  
(Arizona) 

2004
Judge Leonard Perry Edwards 
(California)

2003
Chief Judge Kevin S. Burke 
(Minnesota)

2002
Chief Justice Ronald M. George
(California)

2001 
Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore
(Georgia) 

2000 
Judge Thomas W. Ross  
(North Carolina) 

1999  
Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye  
(New York) 

1998 
Judge Veronica S. McBeth  
(California) 

1997 
Judge B. Michael Dann  
(Arizona) 

1996 
Judge Vincent J. Poppiti    
(Delaware)