2024 (Spring) Dr. Kelly Damphousse, President, Texas State University
2023 (Fall) Dr. Barbara Mink, ACC Board of Trustees Chair and founding member of the Austin Community College District
2023 (Spring) Dr. Harrison Keller, Commissioner of Higher Education for the State of Texas and chief executive officer for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
2022 (Fall) Afua Bruce, Principal of the ANB Advisory Group LLC
2022 (Spring) Mr. Abdul Subhani, President/CEO of Centex Technologies
2021 (Fall) Mr. Pete Winstead, founding shareholder of Winstead PC, & Mrs. Tomi Winstead, founding member of KLRU’s Producer’s Circle
2021 (Spring) Edward Escudero, President/CEO of High Desert Capital, LLC, and Margarita “Margie” Escudero, critical care-certified registered nurse and El Paso Community Supporter
2020 (Fall) Sen. Kirk P. Watson, Founding Dean of the University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs
2020 (Spring) Reverend George V. Clark, pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church
2019 (Fall) Massey Villarreal, CEO and President of Precision Task Group, Inc. (PTG)
2019 (Spring): Dr.Philip Uri Treisman, Distinguished Teaching Professor, The University of Texas at Austin; Founder and Executive Director of UT Austin’s Charles A. Dana Center
2018 (Fall): Dr. Thomas M. Hatfield, first President/CEO of the Austin Community College District
2018 (Spring) Dr. Rufus Glasper, President and CEO of the League for Innovation in the Community College
2017 (Fall) Roy Spence, Co-founder and Chairman, GSD&M and Co-founder/CEO, The Purpose Institute
2017 (Spring) Dr. Byron McClenney, former community college CEO. and Dr. Kay McClenney, founding partner of Achieving the Dream
2016 (Fall) Gus Garcia, Former Austin Mayor, founding member, ACC Board of Trustees, and Marina Garcia, Educator and Community Volunteer
2016 (Spring) Art Acevedo, Austin Chief of Police
2015 (Fall) Belle S. Wheelan, Ph.D., President, Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of College and Schools
2015 (Spring) Dr. Walter Bumphus, president/CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, and Dr. Aileen Bumphus, executive director of the University of Texas at Austin’s Longhorn Center for Academic Excellence Gateway Scholars Program
2014 (Fall) Victor Hwang, Executive Director of the Global Innovation Summit
2014 (Spring) Dr. Dan Arvizu, Director & Chief Executive of National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2013 (Fall) Ben Barnes, Former Lieutenant Governor of Texas
2013 (Spring) Andres Alcantar, Texas Workforce Commission Chairman
2012 (Fall) Wilhelmina Delco, Former Texas State Representative, founding member, ACC Board of Trustees, and Dr. Exalton Delco, Former ACC Vice-President, Academic Affairs
2012 (Spring) Dr. John Roueche, UT-Austin Community College Leadership Program, and Dr. Suanne Roueche, Editor, NISOD Publications, Senior Lecturer, College of Education, UT-Austin
2011 Kirk Watson, Texas State Senator
2010 Dr. Belle S. Wheelan, President, Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of College and Schools
2009 Wilhelmina Delco, Former Texas State Representative, founding member, ACC Board of Trustees
2008 Donna Howard, Texas State Representative
2007 Mark Strama, Texas State Representative
2006 Richard Oppel, Editor, Austin American Statesman
2005 Toby Hammett Futrell, City Manager, City of Austin
2004 Gustavo Garcia Austin Mayor
2003 Reynaldo Garcia, Executive Director, Texas Association of Community Colleges
2002 Della May Moore, Outgoing Board of Trustees member
2001 Carole Keeton Rylander, State Comptroller
2000 Will Davis, Founding Member, ACC Board of Trustees
1999 Kirk P. Watson, Mayor, City of Austin
1998 Congressman Lloyd Doggett, U.S. House of Representatives, District 10
1997 Dr. Richard Fonte, President, ACC
1996 Barry Waite, Senior Vice-President Motorola
1995 Dr. Donald G. Phelps, W.K. Kellogg Regents Professor, UT
1994 Dr. Bill Segura, President, ACC
1993 Dr. Charles A. Green, Chancellor, Houston Community College System
1992 Dr. Manuel J. Justiz, A.M. Aikin Regents Chair in Education Leadership, UT
1991 Rod A. Risley, Executive Director, Phi Theta Kappa
1990 Lawrence Williford, Sr. VP Corporate Relations, Allstate Insurance Company
1989 Hon. Parker McCollough, Texas House of Representatives
1988 Larry Jenkins, VP, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company
1987 Dr. William H. Pickens, Executive Director, California Postsecondary Higher Education Commission
1986 Gonzalo Barrientos, State Senator, District 14
1985 Dr. Dan Angell, President, ACC
1984 Dr. Lorrin Kennamer, Dean, College of Education, UT
1983 Raymond Bynum, Commissioner, Texas Education Agency
1982 J. J. Pickle, Congressman, 10th Congressional District
1981 Br. Stephen Wlash, President, St. Edward’s University
1980 Dr. Kenneth Ashworth, Commissioner THECB
1979 Wilhelmina Delco, State Representative District 37-D
1978 Carole McClellan, Mayor, City of Austin
1977 Lloyd Doggett, Member, Texas Senate
1976 Jimmy Snell, Mayor Pro Tempore, City of Austin
1975 Gonzalo Barrientos, Texas House of Representatives
1974 C.C. Colvert, Professor Emeritus, Community College Education, UT
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