2023—-Dr. Majed Khader

2023—-Sarah Palfrey

2022—-Betty Barrett

2021—-Cris Spradling

2019—-David Nalker

2017—-Lynn Roberts

2015—-Allyson McKee

2015—-Pam Coyle

2014—-David B. Dalzell, Jr.

2014—-Robert Jackson

2012—-WVLA Legislative Committee

2011—-Elizabeth Tackett

2009—-Charles & Patricia Bonar

2009—-Judy Bucher

2007—-Patsy Stephenson

2006—-Betty Hamilton

2005—-Julie Spiegler

2004—-Joel Beane – Director/Kingwood Public Library

2004—-Alma Cummings – Lincoln County Public Library

2004—-The West Virginia Library Commission Network Staff

2003—-Phyllis Wilson Moore – Advisory Board member/West Virginia Folklife Center

2002—-Thomas A. E. Stepahn – Trustee/Ohio County Public Library

2002—-Donna Morgan – Director/McDowell County Public Library

2001—-Jack Kessler – Trustee/Putnam County Public Library

2001—-Evan M. Rogerson – Trustee/City-County Public Library (Moundsville)

2000—-Karney Tinney – Trustee/Sissonville Public Library

1999—-Friends of the Summers County Public Library

1998—-Guy Laymond Nichols – Trustee/Paden City Public Library

1997—-Pearl Jett – Trustee/Doddridge County Public Library

1996—-Sam Colvin – Wayne County Public Library

1996—-Gordon Simmons – Taylor Books

1995—-Jeff Deal – Trustee/McDowell County Public Library

1994—-Dr. Les Wilkerson – Friend/Lincoln County Public Library

1993—-Karney Tinney – Trustee/Sissonville Public Library

1992—-Susan Reilly – City-County Public Library (Moundsville)

1991—-Karen Phillipi – Kanawha County Public Library

1990—-Karney Tinney – Sissonville Public Library

1987—-Sarah Thompson – St. Albans Public Library

1986—-Buddy Herzbern – Trustee/McDowell County Public Library

1983—-Luella Dye – Craft Memorial Library

1982—-S. Fred Natalie – Mary H. Weir Public Library

1981—-Margaret Allen –

1980—-Betty Jane Wade – Shinnston Public Library

1979—-Larry Frye – Bethany College

1978—-Victorine Louistall – West Virginia University

1977—-Eloise Newlon – Kanawha County Schools

1976—-Josephine Fidler – Marshall University

1975—-John Edward Scott – Library Resources West Virginia State College

1975—-Govenor & Mrs. Arch A. Moore – Glen Dale, West Virginia

1974—-Sam Harshbarger – Trustee/Cabell County Public Library

1974—-Clifford Hamrick – West Virginia University

1973—-Charlotte Murphy – Mannington Public Library

1972—-Mary Guiney – West Virginia Library Commission

1972—-Earl Core – Author, Trustee/Morgantown Public Library

1970—-Nicholas Winowich – Kanawha County Public Library

1970—-Jennings Randolph – U. S. Senator

1970—-C. E. Campbell Beall – West Virginia Library Commissioner

1970—-Board of Directors – St. Albans Public Library

1969—-Mary Louise Graham – Raleigh County Public Library

1969—-Harold William Apel – Marshall University

1968—-William C. Myers – Mary H. Weir Public Library

1968—-Rose Eleanor Lyne – West Virginia Library Commissioner

1967—-Ora Peters – Concord College

1967—-Earl Eiler Rich – West Virginia Library Commissioner-Chairman

1967—-Clarice Lorene Bailes – South Charleston High School

1966—-Myrtle Banbrick – Weirton Women’s Club

1965—-Nellie Rider – Trustee/Morgantown Public Library

1965—-Dora Ruth Parks – West Virginia Library Commission

1964—-William Frederick Dalzell – Trustee/Moundsville Public Library

1964—-Margaret Virginia Ebeling – Ohio County Public Library

1964—-James Arthur Jackson – West Virginia State Law Librarian

1964—-Florence Katherine Reese – West Virginia University

1957—-Roy Bird Cook – Scholar, Historian/Kanawha County

1957—-Emma Cobb Havener – Trustee/Morgantown Public Library

1956—-Ida M. Peters – Parkersburg High School

1956—-Cyril M. Reigh – Trustee/St. Albans Public Library

1955—-Mrs.Waitman H. Conway – Marion County Public Library

1955—-John V. Ray – Trustee/Kanawha County Public Library

1954—-Perry Emmet O’Brien – Trustee/Jackson County Public Library

1954—-Ethel Green – Clarksburg Public Library