2023 - Soraya M. Coley, President, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
2022 -
Deborah F. Stanley, Interim Chancellor, The State University of New York (SUNY)
2021 -
Women in Executive Search (Betty Turner Asher, Dean Dowdall, Jan Greenwood, Narcisa Polonio, and Shelley Storbeck)
2020 - Carole Moore, Interim President, Guilford College
2019 -
Carol S. Leary, President, Bay Path University (MA)
2018 -
Judith S. White, President and Executive Director of HERS (Higher Education Resource Services)
2017 - Judy Genshaft, President, University of South Florida
2016 - Lucie Lapovsky, President, Lapovsky Consulting
2015 - Madlyn Hanes, Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses for The Pennsylvania State University
2014 - Elaine P. Maimon, Governors State University (IL)
2013 - Karen Haynes, President, California State University San Marcos
2012 - Beverly Daniel Tatum, President, Spelman College (GA)
2011 - Susan L. Perry, Senior Advisor, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
2010 - Blenda J. Wilson, President Emerita, California State University, Northridge Educational Policy Consultant &
Board Chair, HERS
2009 - Peggy Ryan Williams, President Emerita, Ithaca College (NY)
2008 - Adrian Tinsley, President Emerita, Bridgewater State College (MA)
2007 - Yolanda T. Moses, Past President of the American Anthropological Association (VA), Professor of Anthropology and the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Excellence at the University of California, Riverside
2006 - Donna Shalala, President, University of Miami
2005 - Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) (DC)
2004 - Bette E. Landman, President, Arcadia University (PA)
2003 - Bernice (Bunny) Sandler, Senior Scholar, Women's Research and Education Institute (DC)
2002 - Cynthia Secor, Founder, Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration Bryn Mawr College (PA) and HERS New England Management Institute for Women in Higher Education, Wellesley College (MA)
2001 - Jan Holmgren, President, Mills College (CA)
2000 - Judy Touchton, former Associate Director, ACE's former Office of Women in Higher Education
1999 - Donna Shavlik, former Director, ACE's former Office of Women in Higher Education