| Year |
AASL President |
Honoree |
| 2006 |
J. Linda Williams |
First Lady Laura Bush
Gary Hartzell |
| 2005 |
Dawn P. Vaughn |
Follett Library Resources |
| 2004 |
Frances R. Roscello |
Bound to Stay Bound Books, Inc. |
| 2003 |
Nancy P. Zimmerman |
Rachel Hodges, former First Lady of South Carolina, and Scholastic, Inc. |
| 2002 |
Helen Adams |
Sen. Ralph Regula |
| 2001 |
Harriet Selverstone |
Don Leslie, 3M Library Systems |
| 2000 |
Ellen Jay |
Betty Marcoux |
| 1999 |
Sharon Coatney |
Delaine Easton, State Superintendent of Schools, CA |
| 1998 |
Ken Haycock |
Lillian Gerhardt, Retiring Editor, School Library Journal |
| 1997 |
Barbara Stripling |
DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund |
| 1996 |
David Loertscher |
Elliot & Eleanor Goldstein, SIRS
Ann Carlson Weeks |
| 1995 |
Jacqueline Mancall |
Dr. Judith M. Pitts (posthumously) |
| 1994 |
E. Blanche Woolls |
Senator Paul Simon, IL
Congressman Jack Reed, RI |
| 1993 |
Ruth Toor |
Charles Follett, Jr., Follett Software Company |
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