| 1st | 1960 | William Golder | Transportation Institute University of California, Berkeley |
| 2nd | 1961 | Morgan D. Thomas | Department of Geography University of Washington |
| 3rd | 1962 | James N. Tattersall | Department of Economics University of Oregon |
| 4th | 1963 | William S. Peters | Anderson School of Management University of New Mexico |
| 5th | 1964 | John W. Dyckman | Department of Economics University of California, Los Angeles |
| 6th | 1965 | Charles M. Tiebout | Department of Economics University of Washington |
| 7th | 1966 | Fred E. Case | Housing, Real Estate & Urban Land Studies University of California, Los Angeles |
| 8th | 1967 | Paul F. Wendt | Housing, Real Estate & Urban Land Studies University of California, Berkeley |
| 9th | 1968 | Harold L. Buma | Bank of America |
| 10th | 1969 | Bernard Udis | Economic Research Institute University of Colorado |
| 11th | 1970 | Edward L. Ullman | Department of Geography University of Washington |
| 12th | 1971 | Anthony H. Pascal | RAND Corporation Santa Monica, California |
| 13th | 1972 | Donald A. Watson | Bureau of Business & Economic Research University of Oregon |
| 14th | 1973 | Charles L. Leven | Institute for Urban & Regional Studies Washington University, St. Louis |
| 15th | 1974 | Shelly Mark | Department of Resource & Agricultural Economics University of Hawaii |
| 16th | 1975 | Frank G. Mittelbach | Housing, Real Estate & Urban Land Studies University of California, Los Angeles |
| 17th | 1976 | Martin Beckmann | Department of Economics Brown University |
| 18th | 1977 | Parzival Copes | Department of Economics Simon Fraser University |
| 19th | 1978 | David Seymour | Crown Zellerbach San Francisco |
| 20th | 1979 | Werner Hirsch | Department of Economics University of California, Los Angeles |
| 21st | 1980 | Lee Attaway | Leland D. Attaway & Associates San Rafael, California |
| 22nd | 1981 | Niles Hansen | Department of Economics University of Texas, Austin |
| 23rd | 1982 | Sol Rabin | Westmark Services Los Angeles |
| 24th | 1983 | Robert Keyes | West Vancouver British Columbia |
| 25th | 1984 | Nina Gruen | Gruen Gruen + Associates San Francisco |
| 26th | 1985 | Jack Knetsch | Department of Economics Simon Fraser University |
| 27th | 1986 | Gunter Schramm | World Bank Washington, DC |
| 28th | 1987 | Bernard Malamud | Department of Economics University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| 29th | 1988 | Harry W. Richardson | School of Urban & Regional Planning University of Southern California |
| 30th | 1989 | Paul E. Polzin | Bureau of Business & Economic Research University of Montana |
| 31st | 1990 | Michael J. Greenwood | Center for Economic Analysis University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 32nd | 1991 | Kingsley E. Haynes | Institute of Public Policy George Mason University |
| 33rd | 1992 | Theodore Lane | Thomas/Lane & Associates Seattle and San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 34th | 1993 | Richard L. Morrill | Department of Geography University of Washington |
| 35th | 1994 | John E. Keith | Department of Economics Utah State University |
| 36th | 1995 | Antoine S. Bailly | Department de Geographie Université de Genève |
| 37th | 1996 | Jon R. Miller | Department of Economics University of Idaho |
| 38th | 1997 | Jack C. Stabler | Department of Agricultural Economics University of Saskatchewan |
| 39th | 1998 | Lay James Gibson | Department of Geography & Regional Development University of Arizona |
| 40th | 1999 | Arthur Getis | Department of Geography San Diego State University |
| 41st | 2000 | John M. Quigley | Department of Economics University of California, Berkeley |
| 42nd | 2001 | Brenda Moscove | Department of Marketing California State University, Bakersfield |
| 43rd | 2002 | Roger Stough | The Institute of Public Policy George Mason University |
| 44th | 2003 | Koichi Mera | Marshall School of Business University of Southern California |
| 45th | 2004 | Juanita Liu | School of Travel Industry Management University of Hawaii, Manoa |
| 46th | 2005 | Lee Huskey | Department of Economics University of Alaska – Anchorage |
| 47th | 2006 | Jack W. Osman | Department of Economics San Francisco State University |
| 48th | 2007 | Geoffrey J. D. Hewings | Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 49th | 2008 | T. John Kim | Department of Urban and Regional Planning University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 50th | 2009 | David W. Holland | School of Economic Sciences Washington State University |
| 51st | 2010 | Robert J. Stimson | School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management University of Queensland |
| 52nd | 2011 | Warren Gill | Vice President of University Affairs Simon Fraser University |
| 53rd | 2012 | Peter Gordon | Sol Price School of Public Policy University of Southern California |
| 54th | 2013 | Hans Westlund | Regional Planning, Royal Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship, Jönköping International Business School |
| 55th | 2014 | Serge Rey | School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning Arizona State University |
| 56th | 2015 | K. Bruce Newbold | School of Geography and Earth Sciences McMaster University |
| 57th | 2016 | David A. Plane | School of Geography and Development University of Arizona |
| 58th | 2017 | Alan Murray | Department of Geography University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 59th | 2018 | Matthias Ruth | School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Northeastern University |
| 60th | 2019 | Genevieve Giuliano | Sol Price School of Public Policy University of Southern California |
| 61st | 2020 | Janet E. Kohlhase | Department of Economics University of Houston |
| 62nd | 2021 | Richard Church | Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 63rd | 2022 | Terry Clower | Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University |
| 64th | 2023 | Makena Coffman | Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaiʻi |