| 2019-2020 | Joshua Youngblood, University of Arkansass |
| 2018-2019 | Mark Lambert, Texas General Land Office |
| 2017-2018 | Jennifer Day, City of Oklahoma City |
| 2016-2017 | Claudia Rivers, University of Texas at El Paso |
| 2015-2016 | Mary Manning, University of Houston |
| 2014-2015 | Katie Salzmann, Texas State University |
| 2013-2014 | Susan Novick, Archives Consultant |
| 2012-2013 | Amanda Focke, Rice University |
| 2011-2012 | Carol O. Bartels, Historic New Orleans Collection |
| 2010-2011 | John Slate, City of Dallas |
| 2009-2010 | Brenda McClurkin, University of Texas at Arlington |
| 2008-2009 | Ann Hodges, University of Texas at Arlington |
| 2007-2008 | Tim Blevins, Pikes Peak Library District |
| 2006-2007 | Michael McColgin, Arizona State Archives |
| 2005-2006 | Brenda Gunn, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2004-2005 | Shelly Henley Kelly, University of Houston – Clear Lake |
| 2003-2004 | Kathlene Ferris, University of New Mexico |
| 2002-2003 | Carol Roark, Dallas Public Library |
| 2001-2002 | Carol Mathias, Nicholls State University |
| 2000-2001 | Bruce Turner, University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| 1999-2000 | Leon Miller, Tulane University |
| 1998-1999 | Laura McLemore, Austin College, Sherman |
| 1997-1998 | Faye Phillips, Louisiana State University |
| 1996-1997 | Gerald Saxon, University of Texas at Arlington |
| 1995-1996 | David Chapman, Texas A & M University |
| 1994-1995 | Lisa Shipee Lambert, Rosenberg Library / Panhandle Plains Museum |
| 1993-1994 | Dawn Letson, Texas Woman’s University |
| 1992-1993 | Robert Tissing, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library |
| 1991-1992 | Ed Oetting, Arizona State University |
| 1990-1991 | Toby Murray, University of Tulsa |
| 1989-1990 | Robert Martin, Louisiana State University |
| 1988-1989 | Kent Keeth, Baylor University |
| 1987-1988 | Michael Dabrishus, University of Arkansas |
| 1986-1987 | Austin Hoover, New Mexico State University |
| 1985-1986 | Audrey Bateman, Austin Public Library |
| 1984-1985 | Jane Kenamore, Rosenberg Library, Galveston |
| 1983-1984 | David Murrah, Texas Tech University |
| 1982-1983 | Jack Haley, University of Oklahoma |
| 1981-1982 | Nancy Boothe, Rice University |
| 1980-1981 | Patricia Meador, Louisiana State University, Shreveport* |
| 1978-1980 | Charles Schultz, Texas A & M University |
| 1976-1978 | Sam Sizer, University of Arkansas |
| 1974-1976 | John M. Kinney, Texas State Archives |
| 1972-1974 | A. Otis Hebert, Jr., Louisiana State Archives |
