| 2017 | Marc Hamilton | Andalusia | |
| 2016 | Jamey R. L. Carroll | Huntsville | |
| 2015 | Dr. Lowell Broom | Birmingham | |
| 2014 | Don McCleod | Dothan | |
| 2013 | Renee B. Hubbard | Montgomery | |
| 2012 | Steven A. Shelton | Tuscaloosa | |
| 2011 | John P. Shank | Birmingham | |
| 2010 | J. Lamar Reeves | Mobile | |
| 2009 | J. Brian Barksdale | Birmingham | |
| 2008 | Marlene M. McCain | Birmingham | |
| 2007 | Charles L. Watkins | Florence | |
| 2006 | Steven M. Barranco | Montgomery | |
| 2005 | Charles H. Adams | Huntsville | |
| 2004 | Douglas L. Mims | Montgomery | |
| 2003 | Stephen L. Moore | Birmingham | |
| 2002 | Kent C. Quinn | Decatur | |
| 2001 | Dr. Thomas A. Ratcliffe* | Troy | |
| 2000 | Charles R. Chamblee | Birmingham | |
| 1999 | William David Smith* | Tuscaloosa | |
| 1998 | Vivian V. Chateau | Mobile | |
| 1997 | Norman L. Canerday | Huntsville | |
| 1996 | Dr. Frank R. Rayburn | Birmingham | |
| 1995 | Harry M. Donaldson* | Birmingham | |
| 1994 | David P. Kassouf | Birmingham | |
| 1993 | Alan C. Davis | Birmingham | |
| 1992 | Jimmy L. Williamson | Albertville | |
| 1991 | W. Lacon Carver | Tuscaloosa | |
| 1990 | Leon M. Kelley | Montgomery | |
| 1989 | Don L. Machen | Auburn | |
| 1988 | Martha C. Williams | Dothan | |
| 1987 | F. Ralph Dowdy | Huntsville | |
| 1986 | Barbara S. Malkove | Mobile | |
| 1985 | Jimmy A. LaFoy | Opelika | |
| 1984 | Jack S. Harris* | Montgomery | |
| 1983 | William A. Tate* | Tuscaloosa | |
| 1982 | Bryan M. Hassler | Birmingham | |
| 1981 | J. Hoyt Looney | Huntsville | |
| 1980 | William A. Kent* | Montgomery | |
| 1979 | Yuell B. Busey | Mobile | |
| 1978 | John A. Lyon, Jr. | Birmingham | |
| 1977 | James T. Wilson | Anniston | |
| 1976 | Fred A. Beam* | Birmingham | |
| 1975 | Mac F. Carpenter | Dothan | |
| 1974 | L. Paul Kassouf* | Birmingham | |
| 1973 | Sam I. Diamond, Jr.* | Montgomery | |
| 1972 | Herschel E. Morrison* | Mobile | |
| 1971 | V. Victor Harrison* | Tuscaloosa | |
| 1970 | Joseph E. Snyder* | Huntsville | |
| 1969 | Henry I. Barclay, Jr.* | Birmingham | |
| 1968 | Henry A. Vaughan, Jr.* | Selma | |
| 1967 | James L. Dent, Jr.* | Birmingham | |
| 1966 | E. B. McDaniel, Jr.* | Dothan | |
| 1965 | M. R. Bond, Jr.* | Mobile | |
| 1964 | James E. Money* | Tuscaloosa | |
| 1963 | John F. Smither, Jr.* | Decatur | |
| 1962 | Francis M. Stone* | Mobile | |
| 1961 | Frank B. Hill, Jr.* | Montgomery | |
| 1960 | William M. Keller* | Birmingham | |
| 1959 | Winston Brooke* | Anniston | |
| 1958 | Edward L. Powers* | Birmingham | |
| 1957 | Norman T. Dill* | Mobile | |
| 1956 | James W. Thornton* | Montgomery | |
| 1955 | Chris H. King* | Birmingham | |
| 1954 | Vernon M. Dukes* | Mobile | |
| 1953 | John W. Borden* | Montgomery | |
| 1952 | Fred W. Nichols | Birmingham | |
| 1951 | Kermit T. Hart* | Mobile | |
| 1950 | James Regan, Jr.* | Birmingham | |
| 1949 | John L. Badeau* | Birmingham | |
| 1948 | William Howard Borland* | Birmingham | |
| 1947 | James W. Wilson* | Montgomery | |
| 1946 | Martin L. Strickland* | Geneva | |
| 1945 | Joseph L. Ullman | Birmingham | |
| 1944 | Henry Pratt* | Birmingham | |
| 1943 | J. D. P. Arnold* | Birmingham | |
| 1942 | W. M. Franklin* | Birmingham | |
| 1941 | George D. King* | Gadsden | |
| 1940 | Vardaman M. Buckalew* | Mobile | |
| 1938-39 | J. J. Scarborough* | Birmingham | |
| 1937 | Harold O. Crane* | Montgomery | |
| 1936 | James O. Screven* | Birmingham | |
| 1933-35 | Gilbert F. Dukes* | Mobile | |
| 1932 | Leslie J. Richard* | Mobile | |
| 1931 | Carl C. Jamison* | Tuscaloosa | |
| 1930 | Charles H. Moses, Sr.* | Birmingham | |
| 1929 | W. J. Christian* | Birmingham | |
| 1928 | Vivian R. Prichard* | Mobile | |
| 1927 | Otto H. Schultz* | Birmingham | |
| 1926 | Walter K. Smith* | Mobile | |
| 1925 | James E. Dowe* | Montgomery | |
| 1924 | Homer B. Urquhart* | Birmingham | |
| 1923 | R.H. Screven* | Birmingham | |
| 1922 | Mayer W Aldridge* | Montgomery | |
| 1921 | Robert E Troy, Sr* | Montgomery | |
| 1920 | George T Rosson* | Mobile | |
| 1919 | H.S.Miller* | Birmingham |
*Deceased