1999 C. Spencer Lee - Corinth
1998 J. Stevens Cotten, Jr .- Biloxi
1997 Donald L. Seago - Jackson
1996 Charles G. Wood - Pass Christian
1995 Jerry Q. Gilder - Hattiesburg
1994 Dan H. Singley, Jr. - Meridian
1993 Bryant Boswell - Jackson
1992 Noel K. Toler, Jr. - Jackson
1991 Ray Graves - Greenville
1990 Dean Williams - Pascagoula
1989 E. Gil Spivey, Jr. - Canton
1988 Mark W. Blackburn - Jackson
1987 James R. Dumas, Jr. - Prentiss
1986 Lloyd Rose - Starkville
1985 Robert Ragan - Cleveland
1984 Don Hall - Laurel
1983 Wayne Sturdivant - Columbia
1982 James E. Long - Starkville
1981 Heber Simmons, Jr. - Jackson
1980 Martin H. Baker - Hattiesburg
1979 Arthur Richter, Jr. - Greenwood
1978 Kirby Walker, Jr.- Jackson
1977 Robert A. Lefeve - Gulfport
1976 David Miller - Hattiesburg
1975 Rudolph Posey - Philadelphia
1974 Russell Burns - Brookhaven
1973 Sam G. Sanders - Jackson
1972 Peter B. Perkins - Hazlehurst
1971 D. Harry Halliwell, Jr. - Hattiesburg
1970 Marshall M. Fortenberry - Jackson
1969 Fayette C. Williams, Jr. - Tupelo
1968 Robert A. May - Jackson
1967 Felix K. West - Clarksdale
1966 John M. Faust - Hattiesburg
1965 Claude V. Petty - Magnolia
1964 M. Monroe Stewart - Jackson
1963 Charles H. Nash, III - Tupelo
1962 Ed. R. Busby - Hattiesburg
1961 Bernard A. Cohen - Jackson
1960 Walton Shannon - Jackson
1959 Carl W. Norwood, Jr. - Corinth
1958 D.C. Easley, Jr. - McComb
1957 John S. Pittman, Sr. - Greenwood
1956 N. Harlan Wallace - Canton
1955 H. M. Campbell – Tupelo
1954 Claude S. Williams, Jr. - Hattiesburg
1953 John C. Boswell - Jackson
1952 Fulton C. Sneed - Osyka
1951 G.A. McCarty - Jackson
1950 Lel J. Smith - Biloxi