2025
Ms. Deva Mumphrey
Dr. Samariah Jenohn Riggins, DPT
Mr. Jerry McPherson
Ms. Juan Te Dailey
Mrs. Donna Williams, Esq.
2024
Pastor Aubrey L. Barnwell
Mr. Kenny W. Harris
Mr. Jalen Herring
Mr. Essen Otu
Honorable Leah Landrum Taylor
2023
Ms. Wen Chyi Chiu
Ms. Sharise Erby
Mr. Cordero Holmes
Dr. Will Moreland
2022
Ms. Kim Covington
Mr. Lloyd Hopkins
Ms. Nadia Khalighi
Mr. Richard Yarbough
2021
Ms. Carolyn Bristo Chatman
Mr. Freddie Dobbins Jr.
Ms. Angela R. Garmon
Mr. Mel Hannah
2020
Ms. Felicia Davis
Ms. Virgina Fargo
Ms. Colby Jeffers
Mr. Timothy Seay
2019
Ms. Audrey Bell-Jenkins
Ms. Kathryn Boris
Ms. Marlene Haller
Dr. Neal Lester
Mr. Benjamin Taylor
Ms. Janelle Wood
2018
Ms. Joanna de'Shay
Mr. Warren Stewart Jr.
Ms. Charlene Tarver
Mr. Garry Walters
2017
Mr. Alvin Battle
Mr. Emmett Boyd
Ms. Dorothy Finnie
Ms. Eva Olivas
Ms. Dianne Post
Mr. Alan Powell
2016
Ms. Jacqueline Adams
Dr. George Brooks Jr.
Ms. Marchelle Franklin
Dr. Jerome Garrison
Mr. Ryan Johnson
Bishop Alexis Thomas
2015
Mr. Clay Dix
Dr. Rockel Etienne
Ms. Diana Gregory
Mr. Lovelle McMichael
Ms. Loraine Newman
Mr. William Ramsey Jr.
2014
Dr. Bernard Black
Mr. Jason Howard Green
Mr. Jennifer Longdon
Dr. Robert Sherman
2013
Mr. Erwin Cutright
Ms. Kenja Hassan
Ms. Lin Ling Lee
Ms. Lakhwinder Singh Sodi
Mr. Robert Williams
2012
Adam Lopez Falk
Dr. Madelaine Adelman
Dr. Donald Campbell
Dr. Wil Counts
Dr. Carnella Hardin
Detective Jerry Oliver
2011
Anthony Gathers
Rick Miller
Andrew F. Ortiz
Rev. Liana Rowe
Meg Sneed
Dr. Camilla Hester Westenberg
2010
Rhoshawndra Carnes
Deborah J. Kidd Chapman
Carlos Galindo-Elvira
Nicholas Love
Phil Pangrazio
Gloria Washington
2009
Brenda Combs
Mary Davis
Chris Fleischman
Marye Hutchings
Leonard Knight
RJ Shannon
2008
Deedra Abboud
Dr. Rufus Glasper
Imran and Yasmin Hafiz
Fatimah Halim
Isabel McMahel
Yvonne Watterson
2007
Helen Drake
Rory Gilbert
Tony Lopez
Andrew "AJ" Miller
Hubert A. Ross Sr.
Dr. Raul Yzaguirre
2006
Lottie Childers
Imam Abdur-Rahim Shamsid-Deen
The Rev. Benjamin N. Thomas
Dr. Matthew Whitaker
Mary Rose Wilcox
Ron Williams
2005
William "Bill" Dickey
Dr. Paul Eppinger
Charles R. Fanniel
Lal Fernando
Dr. John W. Molina
Ted Williams
2004
George Dean
Susan Gerard
Faye Gray
Luz Sarmina-Gutierrez
Gail Q. Knight
Earl Nelson
2003
Jean Chaudhuri
Tony de'Shay
Jose "Casper" Habre
Dr. Stephen Hennessy
Mark Maskalenko
Don Tarkington
Rev. Oscar Tillman
2002
Mary M. Black
Jose Cortez
Gerry Cullity
Judge Elizabeth R. Finn
Donna Gahagans Guida
Jackie Platt-Jennas
Ann F. Wheat
2001
Harold Branch III
Alberto Esparza
Karen Frye
Ronald Glass
Dr. Oscar Hardin Sr.
Lawrence Moore, Ph.D.
Kambriel Booth
Kathleen Lechuga
2000
Eddie Basha
John Goodie
Bill MacDonald
Calvin Terrell
Judith Tunnell
Richard Valenzuela
1999
Joel Breshin
Dr. Ann Hart
Robert Hegyi
Bill Mosley
Manuel Luis Ortega
1998
Jesse Ary
Dr. Dick Buscher
Gerald Heuett Jr.
Alexander Johnson Jr.
Hon. Cecil Patterson Jr.
Yolanda Strayhand
Rev. Charlotte Strayhorne
Sylvia Echave Stock
1997
Augustine Bartning
Det. Patricia Boybr
Mark Colledge
Lucille Lipham
Lucia Rodarte Madrid
Judge Jean Williams
1996
Gene Blue
Jaime Cardenas
Toby Citron
Damian Cuspard Sr.
Gloria Feldt
Ron Moser
Mark Yoshimura
1995
Fr. John Auther
Eliza MacCauly Carney
Hon. Noel Fidel
Fr. Bob Glynn
Robert Lynch
Coy Payne
Lawrence "Torrey" Winn
1994
Catalina Broyles
Rev. Ruben Carrico
E. Garry Grundy III
Ben Miranda
Danny Ortega Jr.
Congressman Ed Pastor
Marvin Perry
Tammy Sixkiller
Jane Wabnik
Mary Jo West
Earl Wilcox