Recipients of the Thomas Jefferson Award
| 2009 | John T. Casteen III | |
| J. Thomas Parsons | ||
| 2008 | John A. Blackburn | |
| Sharon L. Hostler, M.D. | ||
| 2007 | Richard J. Bonnie | |
| 2006 | Edward L. Ayers | |
| 2005 | Annette Gibbs | |
| 2004 | Robert E. Scott | |
| 2003 | Robert M. Carey | |
| 2002 | James F. Childress | |
| 2001 | Larry J. Sabato | |
| 2000 | David T. Gies | |
| 1999 | Raymond J. Nelson | |
| 1998 | Kendon L. Stubbs | |
| 1997 | B. Lewis Barnett, Jr. | |
| 1996 | Edward W. Hook, Jr. | |
| 1995 | Linda K. Bunker | |
| 1994 | R. K. Ramazani | |
| 1993 | Leonard W. Sandridge, Jr. | |
| 1992 | Kenneth G. Elzinga | |
| 1991 | Hugh P. Kelly | |
| 1990 | Richard F. Edlich | |
| 1989 | Ernest C. Mead, Jr. | |
| 1988 | Ray C. Hunt, Jr. | |
| 1987 | E. Mavis Hetherington | |
| 1986 | Daniel J. Meador | |
| 1985 | Norman A. Graebner | |
| 1984 | Emerson G. Spies | |
| 1983 | Henry J. Abraham | |
| 1982 | William H. Muller, Jr. | |
| 1981 | Edwin E. Floyd | |
| 1980 | Frank W. Finger | |
| 1979 | Frederick D. Nichols | |
| 1978 | Raymound C. Bice, Jr. | |
| 1977 | Irby B. Cauthen, Jr. | |
| 1976 | Charles K. Woltz | |
| 1976 | William S. Weedon | |
| 1975 | W. Dexter Whitehead | |
| 1974 | Vincent Shea | |
| 1973 | B.F.D. Runk | |
| 1972 | Lawrence R. Quarles | |
| 1971 | Fredson T. Bowers | |
| 1970 | Thomas H. Hunter | |
| 1969 | Oron J. Hale | |
| 1968 | Gordon T. Whyburn | |
| 1967 | Hardy C. Dillard | |
| 1966 | Frank L. Hereford, Jr. | |
| 1965 | Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. | |
| 1964 | Dumas Malone | |
| 1963 | Allan T. Gwathmey | |
| 1962 | Henry B. Mulholland | |
| 1961 | Frederick D. G. Ribble | |
| 1960 | Robert Kent Gooch | |
| 1959 | Ivey F. Lewis | |
| 1958 | Colgate W. Darden, Jr. | |
| 1957 | T. Munford Boyd | |
| 1956 | Harry Clemons | |
| 1955 | Jesse W. Beams |