| 2024 | Greg Abbott |
| 2023 | Nelson Wolff |
| 2022 | Kevin Brady |
| 2021 | Glenn Hegar |
| 2020 | Charles Duke |
| 2019 | Lamar Smith |
| 2018 | George Strait |
| 2017 | Pike Powers |
| 2016 | John Cornyn |
| 2015 | Joe Straus |
| 2014 | Wallace Jefferson |
| 2013 | John Sharp |
| 2012 | Ray Perryman |
| 2011 | Ray Benson |
| 2010 | Peter Holt |
| 2009 | T. Boone Pickens |
| 2008 | David Dewhurt |
| 2007 | Rick Perry |
| 2006 | Ed Whitacre, Jr. |
| 2005 | Laura Bush |
| 2004 | David Robinson |
| 2003 | Karl Rove |
| 2002 | George W. Bush |
| 2001 | Red McCombs |
| 2000 | Bill Archer |
| 1999 | Max Sherman |
| 1998 | George Christian |
| 1997 | Kay Bailey Hutchinson |
| 1996 | Pete Laney |
| 1995 | Bob Bullock |
| 1994 | Herb Kelleher |
| 1993 | Barbara Jordan |
| 1992 | Robert S. Strauss |
| 1991 | E (Kika) De la Garza |
| 1990 | Barbara Bush |
| 1989 | William P. Hobby |
| 1988 | Phil Gramm |
| 1987 | James A. Baker, III |
| 1986 | John Traeger |
| 1985 | John Tower |
| 1984 | John Ben Shepperd |
| 1983 | Lloyd Bentsen |
| 1982 | George H.W. Bush |
| 1981 | Anne Armstrong |
| 1980 | Abner McCall |
| 1979 | John B. Connally |
| 1978 | George H. Mahon |
| 1977 | Dolph Briscoe |
| 1976 | Lady Bird Johnson |
| 1975 | Leon Jaworski |
| 1974 | Robert W. Calvert |