Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
* Deceased
| 2013 | The late Roy Orbison Samuel P. Golden ('74) |
| 2012 | Donald "Don" Potts ('63) Jason West ('96) |
| 2011 | Ben T. Morris ('67) Lindy ('72) and John Rydman ('72) |
| 2010 | Rhys J. Best ('69) Kristin Farmer ('95) John Robert "Bobby" Ray ('69) |
| 2009 | William H. Lively ('70) Charles Nelson ('50, '51) G. Brint Ryan ('88) |
| 2008 | Bill A. Nugent ('70) Jim Pawelczyk ('89) Mary K. Suhm ('74, '84) |
| 2007 | Bob Belden R. Dale Olson Nicholas D. Ricco, Sr. J. Terry Strange |
| 2006 | H.E. Adel A. Al-Jubeir Dr. Phillip C. “Phil” McGraw Ronald C. “Ron” Waranch * |
| 2005 | Ray Moseley Jerry W. Pinkerton Martha Fuller Turner |
| 2004 | Jerry Durant Robert R. Onstead * Marvin Stamm |
| 2003 | Charlie Bond Michael Faircloth Bill R. Neale |
| 2002 | Mark A. "Tony" Altermann Euline Brock Bob Dorough Carroll B. Ellis * Annette T. Griffin Patricia Racette |
| 2001 | Harry J. Brownlee Don A. Buchholz C. Dan Smith |
| 2000 | Harold L. Davis * John Howie * William O. Hunt Shirley L.* and Kenneth W. Murphy Hilda G. Tagle |
| 1999 | W. David Bayless Sr. * Judith J. Carrier O.L. Davis Jr. John A. Farris Penelope (Penny) Coffey Farris Joe K. Pickett |
| 1998 | Linda F. Allmand F. Lane Cardwell, Jr. Norman F. Gant Thomas W. Wren * |
| 1997 | Bill Gilliland Don Graham Richard L. Mugg James Ken Newman Joann Peters |
| 1996 | Byron R. Baird Mellonee Burnim Jesús Bautista Moroles Herbert H. Shore * Charn Uswachoke |
| 1995 | Frank D. Bracken James Lester Matthews * Anne Hodges Morgan |
| 1994 | Joe Don Baker Richard B. Borgens Carolyn Pitts Corbin Bette Smith Mullins |
| 1993 | Mike R. Bowlin Charlotte St. Martin Leo Sayavedra |
| 1992 | Bonnie Boynton Mary D. Lankford Matthew M. LaVail Kenneth A. May * Norman A. Miller Edward V. Smith III |
| 1991 | Billy R. Allen Jean Andrews * C. James Carrico * Carl E. McIlwain R. Keith Parks Jim Berry Pearson * |
| 1990 | C. Dean Davis Jerry W. Dickenson Roy Gene Evans M. Ray Karnes * W. Arthur Porter |
| 1989 | Roy Appleton Jr. Covelle Jones * Charles Brown Mullins James Weldon “Tommy” Thomas * |
| 1988 | Mike Cochran William W. “Bill” Collins Jr. * Jerry Farrington Elizabeth Youngblood Proffer * |
| 1987 | M.E. “Gene” Hall * G. Harvey Jones W.R. “Bob” Rucker * |
| 1986 | Robert P. McDonald * Larry McMurtry Rose-Mary Rumbley Bob St. John |
| 1985 | Charles N. Nobles Elithe Hamilton Kirkland * Cathy S. Krendl |
| 1984 | Grace W. Cartwright * Raymond E. Miles |
| 1983 | John Marvin Smith Jr. * |
| 1981 | Myron Stout * William M. Pinson Jr. James Hampton |
| 1980 | Ernst M. Davis * Margaret P. Hays * Ray Roberts * |
| 1979 | Holly Harp * W.C. Orr Jr. * Frank C. Spencer Jr. |
| 1978 | O’Neil Ford * Bill Moyers Sandra Palmer |
| 1977 | Phyllis George Fred Minor * Don January |
| 1976 | Joe Greene Larry A. Jobe Chester A. Newland |
| 1974 | L. Millard Collins * Don Gillis * R. Tom Harpool Jr. * |
| 1972 | N.B. Everett * Lorene Rogers * Emory Smith * |
| 1971 | William Leonard Blankenship Tom Hughes * Ben H. Wooten * |
| 1970 | Norman N. Durham Don Wilfred Micks * Julia Smith Vielehr * |
| 1969 | Bruce Eldon Henderson Genie Chance * Ivan Davis |
| 1968 | Roland B. Mitchell * James Warren Prothro * Larry D. Austin |
| 1967 | Edwin M. Foster Benjy F. Brooks * Wiley L. Housewright * |
| 1966 | George Philip Manire Paul Everett Taliaferro * E. Leigh Secrest |
| 1965 | Nicholas C. Hightower Jr. * Riley D. Housewright * John E. King * |