| 1978 Lowell, Massachusetts | Patrick J. Murphy |
| Brandon Spence | |
| 1979 Saint Louis, Missouri | David Hagberg |
| 1980 Finger Lakes, New York | Kyle Medieros |
| Randolph Waller | |
| 1981 Down East, Maine | David Coco |
| 1982 Seattle, Washington | Peter Redstone |
| 1983 Worcester, Massachusetts | Cynthia Rose Day |
| Kathy Edge | |
| Baxter Jennings | |
| John Panning | |
| 1984 Chicago, Illinois | Gregory Crowell |
| Norman Holmes | |
| Jon Moyer | |
| 1985 Charleston, South Carolina | Jay Janell |
| 1986 Eastern Iowa | James Stettner |
| Kent Tritle | |
| 1987 Newburyport, Massachusetts | Thomas Dressler |
| Justin Hartz | |
| Joseph Olefirowicz | |
| Todd Sisley | |
| 1988 San Francisco, California | Eileen Bockheim |
| Diane E. Green | |
| Michael F. Jack | |
| Wanda Underhill | |
| 1989 New Orleans, Louisiana | Thomas Becker |
| David Bowen | |
| Larry Boyd | |
| Marshall Foxworthy | |
| Michael Morris | |
| Robert Zanca | |
| 1990 Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Justin Aydt |
| Richard V. Cucchi | |
| Lorenz Maycher | |
| John Schwandt | |
| 1991 Baltimore, Maryland | Kimberly Hess |
| Paul V. Scott | |
| Michael Snoddy | |
| Christoph Wahl | |
| 1992 Maine | The Reverend Michael Barrett |
| Margaret Irwin-Brandon | |
| Jason Pedeaux | |
| Paul Tegels | |
| 1993 Louisville, Kentucky | David Headrick |
| Michael Israel | |
| Lee T. Lovallo | |
| Sean O’Neal | |
| Gary E. Waller | |
| Allen K. White | |
| 1994 New Haven, Connecticut | J.R. Daniels |
| Sr. Janis Haustein | |
| Ralph Lyda | |
| Ezequiel Menendez | |
| Nobuko Ochiai | |
| Adam Rahbee | |
| Paul Weber | |
| 1995 Ann Arbor, Michigan | Stuart Ballinger |
| Justin Berg | |
| David D. Eaton | |
| William Lee Gardner | |
| Kathy A. Holland | |
| 1996 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Allison Alcorn-Oppedahl |
| José Luis Bella | |
| Thomas Bryan | |
| Andrew Gould | |
| Christopher Mella | |
| Vincent Ryan | |
| Will Scarboro | |
| 1997 Portland, Oregon | Nicole Bensoussan |
| Joseph McCabe | |
| 1998 Denver, Colorado | Patrick Callahan |
| 1999 Montreal, Canada | David J. Brockman |
| Daniel Schwandt | |
| 2000 Boston, Massachusetts | Daniel W. Hopkins |
| Tony Kupina | |
| Daniel B. Sañez | |
| Ted Kiefer | |
| 2001 North Carolina/Virginia | Ryan Celestin |
| Bruce Ludwick, Jr. | |
| 2002 Chicago, Illinois | Michael S. Banks |
| Charles Creech | |
| 2003 Central Pennsylvania | Owen Cannon |
| Peter Isherwood | |
| 2004 Buffalo, New York | Michael J. Diorio |
| Nathan LeMahieu | |
| 2005 Southeastern Massachusetts | Bradley Althoff |
| Christopher Deibert | |
| Rachel Tissue | |
| 2006 Saratoga Springs, New York | Patrick Davis |
| Trevor Dodd |
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| John Walthausen | |
| 2007 Central Indiana | Leon Griesbach |
| Alexander Hendrickson | |
| 2008 Seattle, Washington | Adam Gruber |
| Demetri Sampas | |
| Laura Trotta | |
| Bernadette Wagner |