Dates following title indicate total years of service to Wake Forest.
| 2010 |
Barbara Babcock Millhouse (LHD '88), founding president of Reynolda House Museum of American Art and past Wake Forest trustee |
| 2009 |
Marvin D. Gentry ('57), Life Trustee
Dr. Richard H. Dean, president emeritus of Wake Forest University Health Sciences |
| 2008 |
Murray C. Greason ('59, JD '62), Chairman, Board of Trustees |
| 2007 |
Edgar D. "Ed" Christman ('50, JD '53), Chaplain, 1956-2003 |
| 2006 |
Thomas K. Hearn Jr., 12th President, 1983-2005
T. Eugene Worrell ('40), Trustee and Benefactor |
| 2005 |
Timothy Pennell ('55, MD '60), Professor of Surgery, School of Medicine, 1966-2002
Willis E. "Doc" Murphrey ('52, JD '57), Old Campus Personality |
| 2004 | Edwin G. Wilson ('43), Provost and Professor of English, 1951-2002 |
| 2003 | Leon H. Corbett Jr. ('59, JD '61), Vice President and Counsel,
1968-2002 |
| 2002 | C. Douglas Maynard ('55, MD '59), Chair, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, 1966-2003 |
| 2001 | Victor I. Flow Jr. ('52), Trustee and Benefactor |
| 2000 | Richard Janeway, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, 1966-1997 |
| 1999 | Mary Ann Taylor ('56, MD '60), Director, Student Health Service, 1961-1991 |
| 1998 | Henry S. Stroupe ('35, MA '37), Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of History, 1937-1984 |
| 1997 | Ivey C. Gentry, Professor of Mathematics, 1949-1989 |
| 1996 | Lula M. "Lu" Leake, Associate Vice President and Dean of Women, 1964-1997
Mark H. Reece ('49), Dean of Students and Dean of Men, 1956-1988 |
| 1995 | Thomas E. Mullen, Dean of the College and Professor of History, 1957-2000 |
| 1994 | Germaine Bree, Kenan Professor of Humanities, 1973-1985 |
| 1993 | Eugene Hooks ('50), Director of Athletics, 1956-1992 |
| 1992 | Elizabeth Phillips, Professor of English, 1957-1989 |
| 1991 | Weston P. Hatfield ('41), Chairman, Board of Trustees |
| 1990 | Eben Alexander, Professor of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, 1949-2004 |
| 1989 | Harold M. Barrow, Chair of Physical Education, 1948-1977 |
| 1988 | Richard T. Myers, Chair, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, 1950-2000 |
| 1987 | Russell H. Brantley Jr. ('45), Director of Communications, 1953-1987 |
| 1986 | D. Wayne Calloway ('59), Chairman, Board of Trustees |
| 1985 | Robert A. Dyer, Professor of Religion, 1956-1983 |
| 1984 | James Ralph Scales, 11th President, 1967-1983
Harold W. Tribble, 10th President, 1950-1967 |
| 1983 | Manson Meads, Vice President for Health Affairs, 1947-2001 |
| 1982 | D.A. Brown, Professor of English, 1941-1973 |
| 1981 | Owen F. Herring ('13, MA '14), Professor of Religion, 1946-1963 |
| 1980 | Nancy Susan Reynolds, Benefactor
James W. Mason (JD '38), Chairman, Board of Trustees |
| 1979 | Grady S. Patterson ('24), Registrar, 1924-1972
A.C. Reid, Professor of Philosophy, 1920-1965 |
| 1978 | Melvin Q. Layton ('47), Superintendent of Grounds, 1951-1977
Clark Vincent, Professor of Medical Sociology, School of Medicine, 1964-1978 |
| 1977 | Carroll W. Weathers ('22, JD '23), Dean and Professor of Law, 1950-1972 |
| 1976 | Egbert L. Davis Jr. ('33), Chairman, Board of Trustees
Charles M. Allen ('39, MA '41), Professor of Biology, 1941-1989 |
| 1975 | H. Broadus Jones ('10), Professor of English, 1924-1959 |
| 1974 | Edgar Estes Folk ('21), Professor of English, 1936-1967 |
| 1973 | Lois Johnson, Dean of Women, 1942-1962
Jasper L. Memory ('21), Professor of Education, 1929-1971 |
| 1972 | J. Allen Easley ('43), Professor of Religion, 1938-1963 |
| 1971 | Clara Carswell, Benefactor |
| 1970 | Harold T. P. Hayes ('48), Editor, Esquire magazine |
| 1969 | Irving Carlyle, President, Board of Trustees |
| 1968 | Camillo Artom, Professor of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, 1939-1961 |