2024 Melanie D. Wilson, Washington & Lee University School of Law
2023 Mark Alexander, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
2022 Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
2021 Vincent D. Rougeau, Boston College Law School
2020 Darby Dickerson, University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
2019 Vicki C. Jackson, Harvard Law School
2018 Wendy C. Perdue, University of Richmond School of Law
2017 Paul Marcus, William & Mary Law School
2016 Kellye Y. Testy, University of Washington School of Law
2015 Blake D. Morant, The George Washington University Law School
2014 Daniel B. Rodriguez, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
2013 Leo P. Martinez, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
2012 Lauren K. Robel, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
2011 Michael A. Olivas, University of Houston Law Center
2010 H. Reese Hansen, Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School
2009 Rachel F. Moran, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
2008 John H. Garvey, Boston College Law School
2007 Nancy H. Rogers, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law
2006 Judith Areen, Georgetown University Law Center
2005 N. William Hines, University of Iowa College of Law
2004 Gerald Torres, The The University of Texas School of Law
2003 Mark V. Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center
2002 Dale A. Whitman, University of Missouri School of Law
2001 Mary Kay Kane, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
2000 Elliott S. Milstein, American University Washington College of Law
1999 Gregory H. Williams, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law
1998 Deborah L. Rhode, Stanford Law School
1997 John Edward Sexton, New York University School of Law
1996 Wallace D. Loh, University of Colorado Law School
1995 Judith W. Wegner, University of North Carolina School of Law
1994 Rennard Strickland, University of Oklahoma College of Law
1993 Curtis J. Berger, Columbia Law School
1992 Emma Coleman Jordan, Georgetown University Law Center
1991 Robert A. Gorman, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
1990 Thomas D. Morgan, George Washington University Law School
1989 Herma Hill Kay, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
1988 Richard G. Huber, Boston College Law School
1987 Victor G. Rosenblum, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
1986 Susan Westerberg Prager, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
1985 Roger C. Cramton, Cornell Law School
1984 Joseph R. Julin, University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law
1983 David H. Vernon, University of Iowa College of Law
1982 Sanford H. Kadish, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
1980–81 Albert M. Sacks, Harvard Law School
1980 Jerre S. Williams, The University of Texas School of Law (to 6/18/80—Appointed to 5th Circuit)
1979 John E. Cribbet, University of Illinois College of Law
1978 Eugene F. Scoles, University of Oregon School of Law
1977 A. Kenneth Pye, Duke University School of Law
1976 Francis A. Allen, The University of Michigan Law School
1975 Charles J. Meyers, Stanford Law School
1974 Soia Mentschikoff, University of Miami School of Law
1973 Maurice Rosenberg, Columbia Law School
1972 Richard C. Maxwell, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
1971 Alfred F. Conard, The University of Michigan Law School
1970 Jefferson B. Fordham, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
1969 William B. Lockhart, University of Minnesota Law School
1968 Joseph T. Sneed, Stanford Law School
1967 Wex S. Malone, Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center
1966 Myres S. McDougal, Yale Law School
1965 Vernon X. Miller, The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
1964 John Ritchie, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
1963 Walter Gellhorn, Columbia Law School
1962 Samuel D. Thurman, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
1961 Page Keeton, The University of Texas School of Law
1960 Frank R. Strong, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law
1959 William L. Prosser, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
1958 Erwin N. Griswold, Harvard Law School
1957 Philip Mechem, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
1956 Maurice T. Van Hecke, University of North Carolina School of Law
1955 Wesley A. Sturges, Yale Law School
1954 Shelden D. Elliott, New York University School of Law
1953 Charles B. Nutting, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
1952 Robert E. Mathews, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law
1951 F. O. G. Ribble, University of Virginia School of Law
1950 Karl N. Llewellyn, Columbia Law School
1949 Edwin D. Dickinson, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
1948 Bernard C. Gavit, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
1947 Warren A. Seavey, Harvard Law School
1946 Merton L. Ferson, University of Cincinnati College of Law
1945 Everett Fraser, University of Minnesota Law School
1944 Lyman P. Wilson, Cornell Law School
1943 Charles T. McCormick, The University of Texas School of Law
1942 Elliott E. Cheatham, Columbia Law School
1941 Harold Shepherd, Duke University School of Law
1940 Edmund M. Morgan, Harvard Law School
1939 Wilbur H. Cherry, University of Minnesota Law School
1938 Herschel W. Arant, The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law
1937 Lloyd K. Garrison, University of Wisconsin Law School
1936 George G. Bogert, University of Chicago, The Law School
1935 Rufus C. Harris, Tulane University Law School
1934 Marion R. Kirkwood, Stanford Law School
1933 Charles E. Clark, Yale Law School
1932 Albert J. Harno, University of Illinois College of Law
1931 Herbert F. Goodrich, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
1930 Edson R. Sunderland, The University of Michigan Law School
1929 H. Claude Horack, University of Iowa College of Law
1928 Austin W. Scott, Harvard Law School
1927 Herman Oliphant, Columbia Law School
1926 Ralph W. Aigler, Columbia Law School
1925 Orrin K. McMurray, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
1924 William Draper Lewis, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
1923 Henry Craig Jones, University of Iowa College of Law
1922 James P. Hall, University of Chicago, The Law School
1921 Arthur L. Corbin, Yale Law School
1920 Eugene A. Gilmore, University of Wisconsin Law School
1916–19 Harlan F. Stone, Columbia Law School
1915 Walter W. Cook, Yale Law School
1914 Harry S. Richards, University of Wisconsin Law School
1913 Joseph H. Beale, Harvard Law School
1912 Henry M. Bates, The University of Michigan Law School
1911 Roscoe Pound, Harvard Law School
1910 William R. Vance, Yale Law School
1909 John C. Townes, The University of Texas School of Law
1908 Charles Noble Gregory, University of Wisconsin Law School
1907 George W. Kirchwey, Columbia Law School
1906 William P. Rogers, University of Cincinnati College of Law
1905 Henry Wade Rogers, Yale Law School
1904 Nathan Abbott, Stanford Law School
1903 Ernest W. Huffcutt, Cornell Law School
1902 Simeon E. Baldwin, Yale Law School
1901 Emlin McClain, University of Iowa College of Law
1900 James Bradley Thayer, Harvard Law School