| 2023 |
Jay Ashcroft
Missouri Secretary of State |
| 2022 |
Timothy Reiniger
Digital Counsel, eNotaryLog, LLC |
| 2021 |
Lori Hamm
Notary Program Specialist, Montana Secretary of State's Office |
| 2020 |
Connie Lawson
Indiana Secretary of State |
| 2019 |
Dr. Christophe Bernasconi
Secretary General of the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) |
| 2018 |
Bob Murphy
Former CEO of Lender's Service, Inc. and ValuAmerica |
| 2017 |
Alicia Stewart
Notary Public Manager, California Secretary of State's Office |
| 2016 |
Automobile Club Of Southern California
Centralized Notary Administration Program |
| 2015 |
Tom Wrosch
Notary & Business Outreach, Corporate Division, Oregon Secretary of State's Office |
| 2014 |
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
One Chase Notary Program |
| 2013 |
Linda McCulloch
Montana Secretary of State |
| 2012 |
Catherine Cortez Masto
Nevada Attorney General |
| 2011 |
Patricia B. Fry
Chair, Drafting Committee for the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts, NCCUSL |
| 2010 |
Mike Shea
Director of Licensing & Enforcement, Colorado Secretary of State's Office |
| 2009 |
Mark Bennett
Hawaii Attorney General |
| 2008 |
Mitt Romney
Governor of Massachusetts from 2003-2007 |
| 2007 |
Pedro Cortes
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
| 2006 |
Elaine Marshall
North Carolina Secretary of State |
| 2005 |
Jim Petro
Ohio Attorney General |
| 2004 |
John Henderson
Enforcer & Educator |
| 2003 |
Todd Kocourek
Civil Law Notary Pioneer |
| 2002 |
Susan Pense
Colorado Notary Public |
| 2001 |
Malcolm L. Morris
Professor of Law, The John Marshall Law School |
| 2000 |
Angel R. Marrero
Attorney at Law, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| 1999 |
Fran Fish
Notary Public Administrator, Utah |
| 1998 |
Michael L. Closen
Professor of Law at The John Marshall Law School |
| 1997 |
Jane Dee Hull
Arizona Secretary of State |
| 1996 |
Kerey C. Carpenter
Assistant General Counsel to the Governor of Florida |
| 1995 |
Michael S. Baum
Chairman of the Information Security Committee of the American Bar Association |
| 1994 |
Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson
Guam Attorney General |
| 1993 |
Diane E. Watson
California State Senator |
| 1992 |
Fred R. Dudley
Florida State Senator |
| 1991 |
Patricia A. Taggart
Director of the Missouri Commission Division |
| 1990 |
Barbara Roberts
Oregon Secretary of State |
| 1989 |
Peter Van Alstyne
Director of the Utah Department of Corporations & Commercial Code |
| 1988 |
Frank J. Warnke
Washington State Senator |
| 1987 |
Grant Jones
Texas State Senator |
| 1986 |
Thad Eure
North Carolina Secretary of State |
| 1985 |
Allen J. Beermann
Nebraska Secretary of State |
| 1984 |
Robert A. Stein
Dean of the University of Minnesota Law School |
| 1983 |
Carolyn Jones
Notary Public & Court Reporter for the U.S. Air Force |
| 1982 |
Raymond C. Rothman
Founder of the National Notary Association |
| 1981 |
Eugene A. Burdick
Judge of the Fifth Judicial District of North Dakota (retired) |
| 1980 |
James C. Kirkpatrick
Missouri Secretary of State |
| 1979 |
March Fong Eu
California Secretary of State |