2023: Dr. Kimberly Bender
Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver
2022: Dr. Phyllis Solomon
School of Social Policy & Practice, University of Pennsylvania
2021: Dr. Cynthia G. S. Franklin
Steve Hicks School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin
2020: Dr. Sydney Hans
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, The University of Chicago
2019: Dr. Diana DiNitto
Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin
2018: Dr. Donna Harrington
School of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore
2017: Dr. Stephanie Robert*
Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2017 Honorable Mention: Dr. Fariyal Ross-Sheriff*
School of Social Work, Howard University
*Prior to 2018, this award was named the Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentoring.