- 2025: Filing for Freedom
- 2024: Guinevere M. Moore
- 2023: Sheri Dillon
- 2023: Craig Bell
- 2022: Karen Lapekas
- 2021: Susan Morgenstern
- 2020: Hardin Matthews, Kelley Miller and Larry Sannicandro
- 2019: Nina Olson (View acceptance speech)
- 2018: Professor Kathryn Sedo and Dale Kensinger
- 2017: C. Wells Hall, III
- 2016: Andrew R. Roberson
- 2015: T. Keith Fogg
- 2014: Judge Peter J. Panuthos
- 2013: Mark Moreau and Carlton Smith
- 2012: Frank Agostino
- 2011: Fulbright & Jaworski
Past Award Recipients
Janet Spragens Pro Bono Award
- 2010: Caroline Ciraolo and Juan Vasquez, Jr.
- 2009: Elizabeth Copeland
- 2008: Joseph Barry Schimmel
- 2007: Professor Leslie M. Book
- 2006: Professor Janet Spragens
- 2005: Professor Diana L. Leyden
- 2004: Karen Hawkins
- 2003: Peter Lowy
- 2002: Elizabeth Atkinson and Victoria Bjorklund