2018
Theodore "Ted" Jones
Sybil Morial

2017
James Moncus
Dee Dee Reilly
Toni Stephenson

2015
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
Rolland Golden

2014
Mary Frey Eaton
Honorable Murphy J. "Mike" Foster, Jr.

2013
O. Delton Harrison
Ellis Marsalis

2012
Mickey Gilley
Richard Zuschlag

2011
Norman V. Kinsey

2010
Louis J. Michot
Marjorie Morrison
Charles “Buddy” Roemer
Willis Reed

2009
Joy Nalty Hodges
Honorable Jimmy D. Long, Sr.

2008
Lt. Gen. John Spencer Hardy
Ben Kleinpeter

2007
Leah Chase
Kevin P. Reilly, Sr.
Matilda Gray Stream
Honorable David C. Treen

2006
Chairman Earl Barbry, Sr.
Ambassador James Joseph
Virginia Shehee

2005
Coach Paul Dietzel
Coach Sue Gunter
Roy O. Martin, Jr.
William Clifford Smith

2004
Ron Zappe

2003
Stephen Ambrose
Charles W. McCoy

2002
Lou Brock
Ella Brennan
Archbishop Philip M. Hannan
Bert Turner

2001
Marc Breaux

2000
Kitty Carlisle Hart
Alden J. "Doc" Laborde
John Peter Laborde

1999
Jimmy Taylor

1998
Victor Bussie
Clyde Connell
Blaine Kern
Honorable John McKeithen
Allen Toussaint

1997
Willie Davenport
Robert Rucker

1996
Dr. Joy Browne
Shirley Ann Grau
Coach Eddie Robinson

1995
Honorable Lindy Boggs
Lod Cook
Percy Sledge

1994
Chef Paul Prudhomme
A. Hays Town

1993
Pete Fountain
Rex Reed
Honorable John Minor Wisdom

1991
Gen. Robert H. Barrow, U.S.M.C. (Ret.)
Michael E. DeBakey, M.D.
Al Hirt
George Rodrigue

1990
Gene Callahan
Honorable Jimmie Davis
Ernest J. Gaines
Honorable Russell Long
Justin Wilson