| Criminal Justice Award Recipients | |||
| 1989 | Richard Gerstein | 2007 | John W. Thornton, Jr. |
| 1990 | Irwin J. Block | 2008 | Rebecca Ann Cox & Margaret Virginia Henghold |
| 1992 | Roy Black | 2009 | Stanford Blake |
| 1995 | Kathy Ferdnandez Rundle | 2010 | Beth Weitzner |
| 1997 | Janet Reno | 2012 | Robert Josefsberg |
| 1998 | Thomas K. Petersen | 2013 | Judge Steve Leifman |
| 1999 | Bennett H. Brummer | 2014 | Richard A. Sharpstein (posthumously) |
| 2000 | Benedict P. Kuehne | 2015 | Edith Georgi Houlihan |
| 2001 | Kathleen M. Williams | 2016 | Milton Hirsch |
| 2002 | Paul Mendelson | 2017 | David Rothman |
| 2003 | Gerald Kogan | 2019 | Carlos Martinez |
| 2004 | Theodore Klein | 2021 | Neal Sonnett |
| 2005 | Rory Seth Stein | 2022 | Michael Caruso |
| 2006 | Phillip A. Hubbart | 2023 | Kevin Hellmann |