| 2025 | William E. Robinson, Allendale County |
| 2024 | Roy Costner III, Pickens County |
| 2023 | Debra B. Summers, Lexington County |
| 2022 | Paul A. Cain, Oconee County |
| 2021 | Johnnie Wright Sr., Orangeburg County |
| 2020 | Dwight L. Stewart Jr., Clarendon County |
| 2019 | Charles T. Jennings, McCormick County |
| 2018 | Henry H. "Buddy" Livingston III, Newberry County |
| 2017 | Julie J. Armstrong, Charleston County |
| 2016 | John Q. Atkinson, Marion County |
| 2015 | James R. Frazier, Horry County |
| 2014 | Joseph R. Branham, Chester County |
| 2013 | Charles T. Edens, Sumter County |
| 2012 | Joseph B. Dill, Greenville County |
| 2011 | R. Carlisle Roddey, Chester County |
| 2010 | Diane B. Anderson, Laurens County |
| 2009 | L. Gregory Pearce Jr., Richland County |
| 2008 | K.G. Rusty Smith Jr., Florence County |
| 2007 | Belinda D. Copeland, Darlington County |
| 2004-06 | Waymon Mumford, Florence County |
| 2004 | Barrett S. Lawrimore, Charleston County |
| 2003 | Gonza L. Bryant, Greenwood County |
| 2002 | James A. Coleman, Laurens County |
| 2001 | Steve S. Kelly Jr., Kershaw County |
| 2000 | James H. Rozier Jr., Berkeley County |
| 1999 | Polly C. Jackson, Lancaster County |
| 1998 | Robert R. Nash Sr., Pickens County |
| 1997 | Alzena Robinson, Bamberg County |
| 1996 | Betty T. Roper, Clarendon County |
| 1995 | George E. Bomar, Greenville County |
| 1994 | Raymond C. Eubanks Jr., Spartanburg County |
| 1993 | William L. McBride, Beaufort County |
| 1992 | Belle J. Kennette, Greenwood County |
| 1991 | James R. McGee, Orangeburg County |
| 1990 | Kenneth R. Huckaby, Spartanburg County |
| 1989 | Lowell C. (Butch) Spires, Lexington County |
| 1988 | David K. Summers Jr., Calhoun County |
| 1987 | Danny E. Allen, Spartanburg County |
| 1986 | O.V. Player Jr., Sumter County |
| 1985 | Sue H. Roe, Aiken County |
| 1984 | Charlie I. Crews, Hampton County |
| 1983 | James P. Whitlock, Pickens County |
| 1982 | Lonnie Hamilton III, Charleston County |
| 1981 | Alfred B. Schooler, Georgetown County |
| 1980 | Howard A. Taylor, Charleston County |
| 1979 | Marjorie H. Sharpe, Lexington County |
| 1978 | Berry L. Mobley, Lancaster County |
| 1977 | E.E. Johnson, Hampton County |
| 1976 | Harold L. King, Darlington County |
| 1975 | Jack Q. Gerrald, Horry County |
| 1974 | Arthur H. Burton, Charleston County |
| 1973 | James O. Thomason, Spartanburg County |
| 1972 | J. Hugh McCutchen, Williamsburg County |
| 1971 | John L. Greer, Union County |
| 1969-70 | J. Mitchell Graham, Charleston County |
| 1967-68 | Charles W. Lawrimore, Georgetown County |
