| Name | Year | Award Description |
|---|
| William Joseph Burns | 2015 | Former Under Secretary of State |
| Carla A. Hills | 2014 | Former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
| George P. Shultz | 2013 | Former U.S. Secretary of State |
| Richard Lugar | 2012 | Former U.S. Senator |
| Robert Gates | 2011 | Former United States Secretary of Defense |
| Harold H. Saunders | 2010 | Director of International Affairs at the Kettering Foundation |
| William Lacy Swing | 2009 | Director General, International Organization for Migration |
| Ryan C. Crocker | 2008 | Ambassador to Iraq |
| Christopher R. Hill | 2007 | Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs |
| Max M. Kampelman | 2006 | Head of the United States Delegation to the Negotiations with the Soviet Union on Nuclear and Space Arms |
| Men and Women of the Foreign and Civil Service | 2005 | Accepted by Under Secretary R. Nicholas Burns |
| Joseph J. Sisco | 2004 | Former Under Secretary of State |
| John Danforth | 2003 | Former United States Senator |
| Colin Powell | 2002 | United States Secretary of State |
| Kofi Annan | 2001 | Secretary-General of the United Nations |
| Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn | 2000 | U.S. Senators, architects of the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction initiative |
| Stuart Eizenstat | 1999 | Deputy Secretary of the Treasury |
| George J. Mitchell | 1998 | Peace Negotiations on Northern Ireland |
| George F. Kennan | 1997 | Lifetime Contributions to Diplomacy |
| Dennis Ross | 1996 | Special Middle East Coordinator |
| Richard Holbrooke | 1995 | Dayton Peace Accords on Bosnia |
| Robert Gallucci | 1995 | Ambassador-at-Large; North Korean Negotiations |
| General John Vessey (USA, ret'd)]] | 1994 | President Emissary to Hanoi for missing American servicemen |
| Robert Oakley | 1993 | Special Envoy to Somalia |
| no award | 1992 |
| Vernon Walters | 1991 | Ambassador to Germany |
| Thomas R. Pickering | 1990 | Ambassador to the United Nations |
| Rozanne Ridgway | 1989 | Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs |
| no award | 1988 |
| Stephen W. Bosworth | 1987 | Ambassador to the Philippines |
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