| Year |
Name |
Institution |
| 1972 |
Robert Huff |
Stanford University |
| 1973 |
Gene Miller |
Pasadena City College |
| 1974 |
Donald Ryan |
San Jose State University |
| 1975 |
John Danielson |
UC Berkeley |
| 1976 |
George Tenopir |
Whitter College |
| 1977 |
Marvin Hensley |
UC Davis |
| 1978 |
Lawrence Braxton |
Charles R. Drew Medical School |
| 1979 |
Ralph Alvarez |
CSU Sacramento |
| 1980 |
Ralph Alvarez |
CSU Sacramento |
| 1981 |
Rachel Ness |
City College of San Francisco |
| 1982 |
Kathleen Little |
UC Santa Cruz |
| 1983 |
Paul Phillips |
University of the Pacific |
| 1984 |
Kate Wilson |
San Diego State University |
| 1985 |
Michael Alexander |
UC Santa Barbara |
| 1986 |
Sal Alcala |
Solano County Community College |
| 1987 |
Michael Halloran |
University of Southern California |
| 1988 |
Jeffrey Baker |
San Francisco State University |
| 1989 |
William Haggard |
Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise |
| 1990 |
Minerva Gonzalez Ozuna |
Pasadena City College |
| 1991 |
Gloria Kapp |
CSU Long Beach |
| 1992 |
Jack Memmott |
UC Davis |
| 1993 |
Georgette DeVeres |
Claremont McKenna College |
| 1994 |
Heidi Granger |
United Education and Software |
| 1995 |
Maureen McRae |
Glendale Community College |
| 1996 |
Steve Herndon |
CSU Bakersfield |
| 1997 |
Ursula Kaiser |
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |
| 1998 |
Addalou Davis |
McGeorge School of Law |
| 1999 |
Toni DuBois |
Long Beach City College |
| 2000 |
Vu Tran |
CSU Los Angeles |
| 2001 |
Connie Barton |
Lassen College |
| 2002 |
Linda Bisesi |
University of California - Hastings College of the Law |
| 2003 |
Ena Hull |
San Joaquin Delta College |
| 2004 |
Wayne Mahoney |
Southwestern University School of Law |
| 2005 |
Joanne Brennan |
Career Colleges Of America |
| 2006 |
Louise C. Jones |
University of California - Riverside |