1982       Robert Keeshan (Capt. Kangaroo)

1983       Thomas Goldsmith (Erie)

1984       Kenneth Andrews (Cortland)

1985       Dorothy O. Lasday (Dutchess)

1986       James E. Girzine/William H. Keller (Rensselaer)

1987       Kenneth V. Jenkins (Nassau)

1988       Gus Potter (Nassau)

1989       Thomas Harmon (Erie)

1990       Nick Lorio (Schoharie)

1991       Beulah Travis (Syracuse)

1992       Joe Petrosino (DFY/OCFS)

1993       JoAnn Smith (Gov’s Office for Human Service)

1997       Mary Haust (Broome Co)

1998       Robert Mosley (Columbia Co)

1999       William R. Steinhaus (Dutchess Co Exec)

2000       Jan Griffith (Seneca YB Director)

2001       Brian Hellner (Lutheran Brotherhood)

2002       Richard S. McCandless (Steuben Youth Gov’t)

2003       Robert Benn (Washington Co)

2004       Edna Kriner-Kirby (Volunteer Albion, NY)

2005       Patrick Burk (YB Pres Batavia)

2006       Richard Laskowski (Leadership Niagara – Niagara Co OCFS & former YB Director)

2007       Diane Morales (The Door)

2008       Kay Tefler (Cornell Cooperative Ext-Broome Co)

2009       Cheryl & David Vermilya (Camilus Youth)

2010       Angela Zimmerman (Nassau County)

2011       Colleen Clancey (Catskill, NY)

2012       Virginia Donahue (On Point for College Hannibal, NY)

2013       Sandi Brundage (City of Salamanca YB)

2014       Kathy Mubarek-Miller (Amherst, NY)

2015       Frank Williams Jr. (City of White Plains YB)

2016       Toni’Lyn Brauchle (Town of Cicero YB)

2017       Oscar Vergara