| 2024: | David Benjamin, University of Central Florida |
2023: | Laura Marion, University of Florida |
| Beth Golding (Lifetime Achievement Award) | |
2022: | Mary Rubin, University of Central Florida |
2021: |
Krystal Thomas, Florida State University |
| 2020: | Beatrice Skokan, University of Miami |
| Rhia Rae, Florida International University | |
| 2019: | Rachel Walton, Rollins College |
| 2018: | Susan Gillis, Boca Raton Historical Society & Museum |
| Sandra Varry, Florida State University | |
| 2017: | Wenxian Zhang, Rollins College |
| Gerard Clark (Lifetime Achievement Award) | |
| 2016: | Sister M. Dorothy Neuhofer, Holy Name Monastery |
| Burt Altman (Lifetime Achievement Award) | |
| 2015: | Debi Murray, Historical Society of Palm Beach County |
| 2014: | Janet DeVries, Boynton Beach Historical Society |
| Kathy Turner Thompson, Citrus County Historical Resources Office | |
| 2013: | James "Jim" Schnur |
| Michael Zaidman, JM Family Enterprises | |
| 2012: | Tomaro Taylor, University of South Florida |
| 2011: | John Nemmers, University of Florida |
| 2010: | Gertrude "Trudy" Laframboise, Rollins College |
| 2009: | Dorothy "Dottie" Patterson, Delray Beach Historical Society |
| 2008: | Maria R. Estorino, University of Miami |
| Mary M. Flekke, Florida Southern College | |
| 2007: | Florida Center for Library Automation |
| Carla Summers, University of Central Florida | |
| 2006: | Sam Boldrick, Miami Dade Public Library |
| 2005: | Florida Memory Project, State Archives of Florida |
| 2004: | Thomas B. Mack, Florida Southern College |
| 2003: | Esperanza de Varona, University of Miami |
| 2002: | Gordon Winslow, Miami Clerk of Courts |
| 2001: | not awarded |
| 2000: | Joan P. Morris, State Archives of Florida |
| 1999: | City of Hollywood, Records & Archives Division |
| 1998: | Burt Altman, Florida State University |
| 1997: | Betty Arnall |
| 1996: | Hal Hubener, Florida State Archives |
| 1995: | Carl Van Ness, University of Florida |
| 1994: | not awarded |
| 1993: | Carla (Kemp) Summers, University of Florida |
| 1992: | Susan McDonald, Florida State Archives |
| 1991: | not awarded |
| 1990: | Gerard Clark, FL Bureau of Archives & Records |
| 1989: | Jim Berberich, FL Bureau of Archives & Records |