- 2023: Lan Cao '83, Nancy K. Welker '63, Imani Perry, Wilma Ambang Abam-DePass ’23 [18]
- 2022: Natalie Diaz, Katherine Butler Jones '57, Susannah Sirkin '76, Ocean Vuong [19]
- 2021: Rabiya Javeri Agha '83, Yo-Yo Ma, Chloé Zhao '05, Casey Roepke '21 [20]
- 2020 [a] : Helen Drinan '69, Anita Hill, Lynn Pasquerella '80 [21]
- 2019: Adrienne Arsht '63, Barbara Smith '69, Gary Younge, Nada Taha Al-Thawr '19 [22]
- 2018: Nancy Pelosi, Aiza Amjad Malik '18 [23]
- 2017: Dolores Huerta, [24] Anqa Khan '17 [25]
- 2016: Joia Mukherjee, [26] Areeba Kamal ‘16 [27]
- 2015: Carol Geary Schneider ‘67, [28] Olivia Papp ‘15 [29]
- 2014: Deborah Bial, [30] Iman A. Abubaker '14 [31]
- 2013: Kavita N. Ramdas '85, [32] Jenna M. Ruddock '13 [33]
- 2012: Azar Nafisi, [34] Tamar S. Westphal '12 [35]
- 2011: Martha Nussbaum, [36] Zehra Nabi '11 [37]
- 2010: Gail Collins, [38] Sarah Elahi '10 [39]
- 2009: Mary McAleese, [40] Caitlin M. Healey '09 [41]
- 2008: Carol Gilligan, [42] Sally J. Brzozowski '08 [43]
- 2007: Wendy Kopp, [44] Sara E. Richards '07 [45]
- 2006: Joyce Carol Oates, [46] [47] Margaret McDermott '06 [48]
- 2005: Nina Totenberg, [49] Claudia Y. Calhoun '05 [50]
- 2004: Kim Campbell, [51] Stacey R. Pulmano '04 [52]
- 2003: Judy Blume, [53] [54] Chiara D. Fuller '03 [55]
- 2002: Queen Noor of Jordan, [56] Sara R. Curtin '02
- 2001: Suzan-Lori Parks '85, [57] Lena K. Zuckerwise '01
- 2000: Mary Patterson McPherson, [58] Elisabeth F. Snell '00
- 1999: Anna Quindlen, [59] Caroline E. Green '99
- 1998: Johnnetta B. Cole, [60] Meghan E. Freed '98 [61]
- 1997: Madeleine Albright, [62] Chandra R.B.G. Dunn '97 [63]
- 1996: Donna Shalala, [64] Devavani Chatterjea '96 [65]
- 1995: Ann Richards, [66] Jennifer Lynch '95
- 1994: Nita Lowey '59, S. Rhae Parkes '94
- 1993: Judith Kurland '67
- 1992: Pat Schroeder
- 1991: Evelyn Fox Keller [67]
- 1990: Wendy Wasserstein '71 [68]
- 1989: Glenn Close [69]
- 1988: Joseph Brodsky [70]
- 1987: Maya Angelou [71] [72]
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