| Year | Name | Organization During Term |
| 2024 | Magda Holloway | Summit Design and Engingeering |
| 2023 | Mae Bryant | City of Charlotte |
| 2022 | Becky Bost | LaBella Associates, P.C. |
| 2021 | Christopher McGee | City of Havelock |
| 2020 | Robby Stone | City of High Point |
| 2019 | Eddie Staley | Withers Ravenel |
| 2018 | Ken Martin | SEPI Engineering & Construction Inc |
| 2017 | Barry Lowry | Town of Chapel Hill |
| 2016 | CJ O’Neill | Town of Matthews |
| 2015 | Scott Whalen | W. K. Dickson |
| 2014 | Russell Byrd | City of Winston-Salem |
| 2013 | James Martin | NC State University |
| 2012 | Brian Dehler | WSP |
| 2011 | Keith Pugh | City of High Point |
| 2010 | Gary Smith | City of High Point |
| 2009 | Mark Combs | City of Asheville |
| 2008 | Chris Thompson | City of High Point |
| 2007 | Leila Goodwin | Town of Cary |
| 2006 | Jeb Blackwell | City of Charlotte |
| 2005 | S. Frank Wyatt | City of Greensboro |
| 2004 | Blair Thompson | City of Burlington |
| 2003 | Malcolm Lewis | City of Winston Salem |
| 2002 | David Meachum | City of Charlotte |
| 2001 | S. Dale James | City of Greensboro |
| 2000 | Flip Bombardier | City of Gastonia |
| 1999 | Larry M. Johnson | City of Charlotte |
| 1998 | Matthew Jordan | City of Gastonia |
| 1997 | Elizabeth Treadway | City of Greensboro |
| 1996 | Jim Humphrey | City of Charlotte |
| 1995 | Steve Kennedy | City of Greensboro |
| 1994 | John D. Cannon | City of Morganton |
| 1993 | Terry D. Cornett | City of Winston Salem |
| 1992 | Don Carmichael | City of Gastonia |
| 1991 | Mike Dawkins | City of Greensboro |
| 1990 | Ed Sizer | City of Charlotte |
| 1989 | Rebecca R. McBride | City of Winston Salem |
| 1988 | Ken Wright | City of Durham |
| 1987 | Gene Kimel | City of Greensboro |
| 1986 | Robert K. Seals | City of Charlotte |
| 1985 | T. Clark Brown | City of Asheville |
| 1984 | Robert Mitchell | City of Durham |
| 1983 | Michael C. Cronk | City of Morganton |
| 1982 | Larry B. Thomas | City of Sanford |
| 1981 | Clark Readling | City of Charlotte |
| 1980 | Pat Swann | City of Winston Salem |
| 1979 | Mayo Allen | City of Greenville |
| 1978 | John Fox | City of Greensboro |
| 1977 | Samuel Wilkins | City of Gastonia |
| 1976 | Robert S. Hopson | City of Charlotte |
| 1975 | Gary Garlow | City of Rocky Mount |
| 1974 | Wayne Nall | City of Greensboro |
| 1973 | Charles Southerland | City of Greensboro |
| 1972 | James Settlemyre | City of Morganton |
| 1971 | Carl Wills | City of High Point |
| 1970 | Cedric Boyd | City of New Bern |
| 1969 | Joe Berrier | City of Winston Salem |
| 1968 | Lex E. Honeycutt | City of Wilson |
| 1967 | Leon C. Cheek, Jr. | City of Charlotte |
| 1966 | T. R. Morris, Jr. | |
| 1965 | Tom Z. Osborne | City of Greensboro |
| 1964 | C. K. Beaty | City of Greenville |
| 1963 | W. M. Garrison | City of Burlington |
| 1962 | Robert Coleman | City of Wilmington |
| 1961 | R. W. Neilson | City of Winston Salem |
| 1960 | High L. Medford | City of Greensboro |
| 1959 | Vernon Peebles | City of Raleigh |
| 1958 | H.W. Kueffner | City of Durham |
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