| 2024 | 2023 | Curtis Brandon Baker | 2022 | Terry Hearld Locke | |
| 2021 | Scott Dalton Cherry | 2020 | Jeffrey Gene Stalnaker | 2019 | Johnny Blake Hill |
| 2018 | Jeffrey Gene Stalnaker | 2017 | Matthew Murray Alsup | 2016 | Jared David Karpel |
| 2015 | Chad Anthony DePyssler | 2014 | Rodney Dale Gobbell | 2013 | Johnny Blake Hill |
| 2012 | David Roy Dahlgren | 2011 | Roy Martin Leland | 2010 | Zachary Ryan Derryberry |
| 2009 | Warner Martin Winn | 2008 | John Ray Caldwell Jr | 2007 | Doyle Garth McCrary |
| 2006 | Ronald Glenn Attkisson | 2005 | Ronald Glenn Attkisson | 2004 | Thomas Michael Mayberry |
| 2003 | Jeffrey Alan Hardy | 2002 | Thomas Jay Piper | 2001 | Kenneth Paul Putnam |
| 2000 | Rufus Villard Haygood | 1999 | Reynolds Lloyd Luther | 1998 | Charles Robert Luttrell |
| 1997 | Thomas Woodson Binford III | 1996 | Joe Robert White | 1995 | Walter Merrill Hutcherson |
| 1994 | Rufus Villard Haygood | 1993 | Joe Richie Ashley | 1992 | William Jordan Mingledorff |
| 1992 | James Edward Duncan | 1991 | Ted Ellington Ring Jr | 1990 | Monte James McCandless |
| 1989 | Mel Gary McCandless | 1988 | Gary Paul Phillips | 1987 | Edmond Bent Cherry Jr |
| 1986 | James Edward Duncan | 1985 | Robert Meredith Hubbard | 1984 | Ricky Jo Robinson |
| 1983 | Thomas Myron Langley | 1982 | Cecil Devon Conner | 1981 | Charles Edward Shouse |
| 1980 | John Dwight Sharpton | 1979 | Patrick Erwin Hartman | 1978 | Ronald Carl Dougherty |
| 1977 | William Edsel Sharpton | 1976 | Norman Kenneth Eubank | 1975 | George William Renfro |
| 1974 | Ira Oval Conner | 1973 | James Calvin Lunn | 1972 | Ewing Patterson Troope Jr |
| 1971 | Howard Wayne Hickman | 1970 | Gerald Wetzel | 1969 | Robert Darden Jones |
| 1968 | Bob S Kee | 1967 | James Eugene Ussery | 1966 | Joseph Clarrence Higgins |
| 1965 | John Thomas Usery | 1964 | Tolen J Mitchell | 1963 | James Wilson Lofton |
| 1962 | Gordon Fann | 1961 | Harold O Butler Jr | 1960 | Samuel R Journey |
| 1959 | William A Fitzgerald | 1958 | Allen C Stone | 1957 | Woodrow Willis |
| 1956 | Joe C Foster | 1955 | Elbert W Wallace | 1954 | Edwin D Graham Jr |
| 1953 | Sam Westall | 1952 | William J Harris | 1951 | James L Briley |
| 1950 | Robert O Ytzen | 1949 | C I Cato | 1948 | Joe C Johnson |
| 1947 | J Anderson White | 1946 | Leland H Blair | 1945 | T D Spears |
| 1944 | Russell A Pinkston | 1943 | Claude N Orman | 1942 | Casto D Madewell |
| 1941 | Clement Marshall | 1940 | Julius J Ytzen | 1939 | Jesse T Caskey |
| 1938 | Hubert Parrish | 1937 | Thomas Julian Liggett | 1936 | Thomas Julian Liggett |
| 1935 | W M Younger | 1934 | W M Younger | 1933 | Glenn Rummage |
| 1932 | J M Thomas | 1931 | Sam G Dorsey | 1930 | R Lee Thomas |
| 1929 | John N Pigg | 1928 | R Lee Thomas | 1927 | William S Fleming Jr |
| 1926 | E Connor Flowers | 1925 | W B Alexander | 1924 | John A Harris |
| 1923 | W C Withorne | 1922 | William S Fleming Jr | 1921 | William J Oakes |
| 1920 | George T Hughes Jr | 1919 | Will W Rayburn | 1918 | James G Williamson Jr |
| 1917 | Will W Rayburn | 1916 | John N Pigg | 1915 | J N Dedman |
| 1914 | Phillip V Dyer | 1913 | George T Hughes Jr | 1912 | W Jesse Lane |
| 1911 | W W Dyer | 1910 | J C Hardy | 1909 | W R Hovious |
| 1908 | Jim A McAllister | 1907 | W C Withorne | 1906 | Sol Grose |
| 1905 | Rev. W T Ussery | 1904 | William A Smith | 1903 | W B Greenlaw |
| 1902 | Joe Ritt | 1901 | Ernest Yoest | 1900 | Ernest Yoest |
| 1899 | Ernest Yoest | 1898 | E. H. Johnson | 1897 | William A. Smith |
| 1896 | William A. Smith | 1895 | William A. Smith | 1894 | John Williamson |
| 1893 | J.C. Wiley | 1892 | W.E. Brazier | 1891 | S.D.F. McEwen |
| 1890 | E.E. Erwin | 1889 | William Taylor | 1888 | William A. Smith |
| 1887 | Joshua G. Bailey | 1886 | Joshua G. Bailey | 1885 | John A. Engle |
| 1884 | Joshua G. Bailey | 1883 | Joshua G. Bailey | 1882 | Joshua G. Bailey |
| 1881 | Joshua G. Bailey | 1880 | A. M. Hughes | 1879 | George Mason |
| 1878 | Hugh T. Gordon | 1877 | W.R. Elam | 1876 | Joshua G. Bailey |
| 1875 | J.W. Witherspoon | 1874 | Joshua G. Bailey | 1873 | J.W. Witherspoon |
| 1872 | J.W.Witherspoon | 1871 | James Andrews | 1870 | George Mason |
| 1869 | Joshua G. Bailey | 1868 | J.W.Witherspoon | 1867 | Joshua G. Bailey |
| 1866 | J.W.Witherspoon | 1865 | James W. Moore | 1864 | |
| 1863 | 1862 | 1861 | J.W. Witherspoon | ||
| 1860 | 1859 | 1858 | William Galloway | ||
| 1857 | A.M. Hughes | 1856 | A.M. Hughes | 1855 | |
| 1854 | 1853 | James W. Moore | 1852 | W. C. Whitthorne | |
| 1851 | Joseph Crawford | 1850 | Joseph Crawford | 1849 | J. M. Campbell |
| 1848 | A.M. Hughes | 1847 | A.M.Hughes | 1846 | Nathan Vaught |
| 1845 | C.A. Fuller | 1844 | Charles A. Fuller | 1843 | William R. Hodge |
| 1842 | Lemuel Philips | 1841 | Jacob F. Guthrie | 1840 | Jacob F. Guthrie |
| 1839 | Nathan Vaught | 1838 | Lemuel Philips | 1837 | Nathan Vaught |
| 1836 | Epsom B. Dooley | 1835 | Hezekiah Ward | 1834 | Lemuel Philips |
| 1833 | Tazewell S. Alderson | 1832 | 1831 | Tazewell Alderson | |
| 1830 | Hillary Langtry | 1829 | Hezekiah Ward | 1828 | Edmund Dillahunty ? |
| 1827 | Caruthers | 1826 | M.D. Cooper | 1825 | Hillary Langtry |
| 1824 | M.D.Cooper | 1823 | Hillary Langtry | 1822 | |
| 1821 | W.R. Miller | 1820 | William G. Dickinson |