| 2007 |
Former Vice President Albert Gore |
| 2006 |
Congresswoman Nancy
Pelosi |
| 2005 |
Nina Tottenberg,
National Public Radio |
| 2004 |
Christopher Reeve,
Actor and Advocate for Medical Research |
| 2003 |
Janet Reno, Former
Attorney General of the United States |
| 2001 |
Jimmy Carter, The Carter Center, Atlanta |
| 1999 |
Parents Campaign Against Violence in the Schools |
| 1998 |
Kofi Annan, Secretary General, United Nations |
| 1997 |
Franklyn Haiman, President, American Civil Liberties
Union |
| 1996 |
Bill Moyers, Public Broadcasting System |
| 1995 |
Barbara Jordan, Professor of Law, University
of Texas |
| 1994 |
Brian Lamb, C-SPAN |
| 1993 |
Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United
States |
| 1992 |
Barbara Jordan, Professor of Law, University
of Texas |
| 1991 |
William Brennan, Justice, United States Supreme
Court |
| 1990 |
Laurence Tribe, Professor of Law, Harvard University |
| 1989 |
Dianne Feinstein, Mayor, San Francisco |
| 1988 |
Ann Richards, Governor, Texas |
| 1987 |
C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General of the United
States |
| 1986 |
Franklin Zimring |
| 1985 |
Richard Lamb, Governor, Colorado |
| 1984 |
Paul Simon, United States Senator, Illinois |
| 1983 |
Larry Pressler, United States Senator, South
Dakota |
| 1982 |
Joshua B. Everett |
| 1981 |
Thomas Bradley, Mayor, Los Angeles, California |
| 1980 |
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen |
| 1979 |
Henry Cisneros, Mayer, San Antonio, Texas |
