| 2024 |
Derek Slaughter |
Mayor of the City of Williamsport, Pennsylvania |
| 2023 |
Alicia Tillman |
Chief Marketing Officer for Delta, 1997 Alumna |
| 2022 |
Dr. Brenda Alston-Mills |
Emerita Trustee, Biology Professor Emerita at North Carolina State University, 1966 Alumna |
| 2021 |
Dr. Stanley W. Sloter |
Chair of Board of Trustees, President of Paradigm Companies, 1980 Alumnus |
| 2020 |
Dr. Kent Trachte |
President of Lycoming College |
| 2019 |
Steven P. Johnson |
President of UPMC Susquehanna, 1976 Alumnus |
| 2018 |
Thomas H. Woodruff, Jr. |
Co-Founder of Amalgated Dynamics, Inc., Academy Award Winner, 1980 Alumnus |
| 2017 |
Mary Ann Schmitt-Carey |
President of Say Yes to Education |
| 2016 |
Gov. Rafael Moreno Valle |
Governor of Puebla, Mexico, 1991 Alumnus |
| 2015 |
Hon. Thomas I. Vanaskie |
Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1975 Alumnus |
| 2014 |
Dr. Gene L. Dodaro |
Comptroller General of the United States, 1973 Alumnus |
| 2013 |
Dr. James E. Douthat |
14th president of Lycoming College from 1989-2013 |
| 2012 |
Dr. David L. Warren |
President of NAICU |
| 2011 |
Dr. Arthur A. Haberberger |
Chairman of the Lycoming College Board of Trustees, 1959 Alumnus |
| 2010 |
Dr. L. Gregory Jones |
Dean and Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School |
| 2009 |
Dr. Elijah Anderson |
William K. Lanman Professor of Sociology at Yale University |
| 2008 |
Dr. Sandra Steingraber |
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, Ithaca College |
| 2007 |
Rev. Dr. John F. Piper, Jr. |
Professor Emeritus of History, and Dean Emeritus of Lycoming College |
| 2006 |
Dr. William A. Turnbaugh |
Professor of Anthropology/Sociology at the University of Rhode Island |
| 2005 |
Dr. William G. Dever |
Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Arizona |
| 2004 |
Dr. Robert L. Shangraw |
Chairman of the Lycoming College Board of Trustees, 1958 Alumnus |
| 2003 |
Ambassador Robert Krueger |
United States Ambassador to Burundi and Botswana, United States House of Representatives and United States Senator, Texas |
| 2002 |
Ambassador Ismael Gaspar-Martins |
Republic of Angola's permanent representative to the United Nations |
| 2001 |
Mr. Edmund L. Jenkins |
Chairman of Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in Norwalk, Connecticut |
| 2000 |
Dr. David L. Holmes |
College of William and Mary in Virginia - Professor of Religion |
| 1999 |
Dr. Yusef Komunyakaa |
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Currently teaches at New York University |
| 1998 |
Mr. James Lehrer |
Host of the program, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on public broadcasting television |
| 1997 |
Dr. Martin A. Marty |
Professor of the History of Modern Christianity at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago since 1963 |
| 1996 |
Dr. Louis E. Lataif |
Dean of the School of Management at Boston University since 1991. Twenty seven year career with Ford Motor Co., President of Ford Europe and Corporate Vice President for World Wide Quality and Marketing |
| 1995 |
Dr. Gary A. Sojka |
Served as Bucknell University's thirteenth president for more than a decade |
| 1994 |
Rev. Dr. Kenneth B. Wilson |
President of Westminster College, Oxford. Ordained Minister, United Methodist Church |
| 1993 |
Dr. Richard E. Rosser |
President of National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities |
| 1992 |
Dr. James M. Buchanan |
Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor at George Mason University |
| 1991 |
Dr. George E. Reedy |
Neiman Professor of Journalism, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |