| Year | 
Name | 
Nominating Chapter | 
| 2024 | 
Thomas L. Poliquin | 
Miami Valley Chapter | 
| 2023 | 
James N. Connor | 
Western Reserve Chapter | 
| 2022 | 
James C. Andrus | 
Western Reserve & University of Akron Chapters | 
|   | 
Ottis Compton, Jr. | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
|   | 
Robert (Bob) Ernsberger | 
Toledo Chapter | 
| 2019 | 
Thomas M. “Mike” Besch | 
Western Reserve & University of Akron Chapters | 
|   | 
David N. Halverstadt | 
Thomas Hutchins Chapter | 
| 2018 | 
Jack C. Tozzer | 
Congress Lands Chapter | 
| 2017 | 
Alfred L. Reid | 
Miami Valley Chapter | 
|   | 
Ronald L. Roat | 
Cincinnati Chapter | 
|   | 
George F. Seymour | 
Scioto Valley Chapter | 
| 2015 | 
John Circle | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
|   | 
William “Will” J. Dempsey | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
|   | 
Steven “Larry” Gardner | 
Ohio Valley Chapter | 
| 2014 | 
Edward P. Gibbons | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
|   | 
John C. Metzger | 
Northwest Ohio Chapter | 
| 2013 | 
Edward John Heyl and Joseph Heyl | 
Cincinnati Chapter | 
|   | 
George Allen Shuster | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
|   | 
George M. Carter | 
Southwestern Chapter | 
| 2012 | 
Jack A. Hamilton | 
Ohio Valley Chapter | 
|   | 
Wilbur “Wib” H. Mechwart | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
| 2011 | 
Ahaz Merchant | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
| 2010 | 
Myron T. Jones | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
| 2009 | 
Robert E. Thompson | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
| 2008 | 
John J. Cunning | 
Mohican-Killbuck Valley Chapter | 
|   | 
William Albert Stinchcomb | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
|   | 
Bernard “Tim” D. Westfall | 
Askega Chapter | 
| 2007 | 
Bryan Cox | 
Tuscarawas Valley Chapter | 
|   | 
Cecil E. Neff, Sr. | 
Miami Valley Chapter | 
| 2006 | 
Larry W. Pennington | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
| 2005 | 
James Eaton | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
| 2004 | 
Raymod William Gasbarre | 
Mohican-Killbuck Valley Chapter | 
|   | 
Col. James Kilbourne | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
|   | 
Charles J. Neff | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
|   | 
Robert K. Wyss | 
Congress Lands Chapter | 
| 2003 | 
Thomas Worthington | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
| 2002 | 
William J. Haas, Jr. | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
|   | 
Rufus Putnam | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
| 2001 | 
Ebenezer Buckingham | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
| 2000 | 
Howard R. Craig | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
|   | 
Louis F. Mennitt | 
Toledo Chapter | 
| 1999 | 
Albert O. (A.O.) Myers, Jr. | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
|   | 
Carl F. Swartzbaugh | 
Miami Valley Chapter | 
| 1998 | 
Lucas Sullivant | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
| 1997 | 
Augustus Porter | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
| 1996 | 
Newton E. Smith | 
Northwest Ohio Chapter | 
| 1995 | 
Washington Galloway | 
Miami Valley chapter | 
| 1994 | 
John Bever | 
SCACES Chapter | 
|   | 
J. Henry Meyer | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
| 1993 | 
Samuel D. Henkle | 
Cincinnati Chapter | 
|   | 
Thomas Hutchins | 
Thomas Hutchins Chapter | 
|   | 
Francis A. Runkle | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
| 1992 | 
James E. House | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
|   | 
Sherman T. Swigart | 
Western Reserve Chapter | 
| 1991 | 
John Mathews | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
| 1990 | 
Gerald M. Barton | 
Toledo Chapter | 
|   | 
Earl R. Peterson | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
|   | 
Willard Orvin Weir | 
Askega Chapter | 
| 1989 | 
Walter W. Graf | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
|   | 
Ralph L. Woolpert | 
Miami Valley Chapter | 
| 1988 | 
Dan L. Dodson | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
|   | 
Robert W. Freels | 
Toledo Chapter | 
|   | 
Seth Pease | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
| 1987 | 
Thaleon Blake | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
|   | 
Levi Davis | 
Scioto Valley Chapter | 
|   | 
Forest E. Woody Mills | 
Scioto Valley Chapter | 
|   | 
John V. Ruth | 
Congress Lands Chapter | 
|   | 
Amos Spafford | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
| 1986 | 
Sol A. Bauer | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
|   | 
Dumont T. Kingsley | 
Western Reserve Chapter | 
|   | 
Nathaniel Massie | 
Southwestern Chapter | 
| 1985 | 
Houston Coates | 
Cincinnati Chapter | 
|   | 
John A. Davis | 
Congress Land Chapter | 
|   | 
George M. Garrett | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
|   | 
James Watson Riley | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
| 1984 | 
Roscoe M. Rice | 
SCACES Chapter | 
|   | 
Paul T. Sayler | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
|   | 
Marcus Schuyler | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
| 1983 | 
Joseph Gest | 
Cincinnati Chapter | 
|   | 
Hubert F. Helbert | 
Northwest Ohio Chapter | 
| 1982 | 
Israel Ludlow | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
| 1981 | 
Jedediah Cole | 
Western Reserve Chapter | 
|   | 
Samuel Craig | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
|   | 
Cyril W. Neff | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
|   | 
William H. Pinkerton | 
Cincinnati Chapter | 
|   | 
Christopher E. Sherman | 
Central Ohio Chapter | 
|   | 
James Mackey | 
Mahoning Valley Chapter | 
| 1980 | 
Charles W. Root | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
|   | 
James Crew Wonders | 
Treaty Lands Chapter | 
|   | 
Frank L. Krause | 
Cleveland Chapter | 
| 1979 | 
Foster F. Wright | 
Treaty Lands Chapter |