2023-2024

  • Jim Radtke, Cibus, Inc.
  • Norm Poppe, Applewood Seed Co.

2022-2023

  • Craig Newman, AgReliant Genetics/Finding Black Ink, LLC

2021-2022

  • Rick Turner, BASF
  • Richard Denhart, Illinois Seed Trade Association

2020-2021

  • Tim Johnson, Illinois Foundation Seeds, Inc.
  • John Schoenecker, HM.CLAUSE

2019-2020

  • Bernice Slutsky, ASTA
  • Tom Moore, HM.CLAUSE

2018-2019

  • John Duesing, Ph.D, Corteva Agriscience
  • Blake Curtis, Curtis & Curtis, Inc.

2017-2018

  • Wendell Howard, Warner Seed, Inc.

2016-2017

  • Dr. Stephen Smith

2015-2016

  • Mike Gumina

2014-2015

  • Jerry Monk

2013-2014

  • Jim Tobin, Monsanto Company

2012-2013

  • Kelly Keithly, co-founder of Keithly-Williams Seeds

2011-2012

  • Lawrence “Sonny” Beck, Beck’s Superior Hybrids

2010-2011

  • Harry Collins
  • Larry Svajgr

2009-2010

  • Arcadio Lozano Martinez, Mexican Seed Trade Association

2008-2009

  • Gabe Patin, Sakata Seed America

2007-2008

  • Bill Latham, Latham Seeds, Inc.

2006-2007

  • Don Wertman, Seedway
  • Francois Korn, SeedQuest

2005-2006

  • Dick Crowder, former ASTA President and CEO

2004-2005

  • Nathan Boardman

2003-2004

  • Drew Kinder

2002-2003

  • Gary Arthur

2001-2002

  • John Baylor, Ph.D., Atlantic Seedsmen’s Association, Inc.

2000-2001

  • Ed Robinson

1999-2000

  • Fred Clark

1998-1999

  • Dietrich Schmidt

1997-1998

  • John Studebaker

1996-1997

  • Art Armbrust

1995-1996

  • Don McGillivray

1994-1995

  • Del Walker

1993-1994

  • James L. Carnes
  • Jerome J. Peterson

1992-1993

  • William T. Schapaugh
  • Robert Kalton

1991-1992

  • Robert E. Strosnider

1990-1991

  • Owen J. Newlin

1989-1990

  • Robert C. Appleman
  • R. Wayne Skidmore

1988-1989

  • Floyd S. Ingersoll

1987-1988

  • Robert A. Russell

1986-1987

  • Earl W. Olson

1985-1986

  • Dale L. Porter

1984-1985

  • James W. Chaney

1983-1984

  • Robert L. Thedinger

1982-1983

  • David F. Behrent

1981-1982

  • Arden Jacklin

1980-1981

  • Foil McLaughlin

1979-1980

  • Roy Edwards, Jr.

1978-1979

  • Richard McKenna

1977-1978

  • J. Owen Gilbreath

1976-1977

  • Harold Nolen

1975-1976

  • Joseph Harris

1974-1975

  • James L. Sutherland, Jr.

1973-1974

  • James B. Massie

1972-1973

  • John Meredith, Jr.

1971-1972

  • W.R. Herron

1970-1971

  • Harold D. Loden

1969-1970

  • A. Bryan Clark