2018 - Peter James Johnson Jr., Esq.(President, Leahey & Johnson, P.C.) Ramon Tallaj, M.D. (Chairman of the Board, SOMOS Community Care)
2017 - Dr. Pernessa C. Seele (Founder & Chief Executive Officer, The Balm in Gilead, Inc.) +Reverend Monsignor Howard W. Calkins(Posthumously) (Beloved Priest of the Archdiocese)
+Reverend Monsignor Paul A. Lenz (Posthumously) (Former National Director, Black and Indian Mission Fund) Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Yorkin recognition of their Centennial Anniversary ~ 2017
2016 - Dominique Dawes(Multiple Olympic Gold-medal gymnast) M. Roger Holland II(Composer - liturgical music; Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology)
2015 - Robert Smith(Founder/CEO of Vista Equity Partners, investor, and philanthropist)
2014 - Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook(U.S.. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom from 2011-2013) Mario J. Paredes (American Bible Society, Presidential Liasion Roman Catholic Ministries)
2013 - Rev. Msgr. John Meehan (Senior Priest & Former Pastor - Archdiocese of New York) Rev. Msgr. Kevin Sullivan (Executive Director, Catholic Charities - Archdiocese of New York) David Ushery(Veteran News Anchor, WNBC News 4 NY)
2012 - Most Rev. Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle(Archbishop of Accra, Ghana) Deacon Patrick Moynihan Oblate Sisters of Providence Milton Williams, Jr., Esq.
2011 - Dr. Beverly Carroll(Former Assistant Director of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church, USCCB) Rev. Reynaldo Culaba, CSsR(Redemptorist Missionary & accomplished artist) Joey Lowe(Founder, Israel-at-Heart; Advocate for Ethiopian Jewish Community in Israel)
2010 - Archbishop Bernardito Cleopas Auza(Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the U.N.; Former Papal Nuncio to Haiti & Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince) +Dr. Dolores Bernadette Grier(Former Vice Chancellor, Archdiocese of New York) Kenneth Hackett (Former President of Catholic Relief Services) Kevin E. Lofton, FACHE(President & C.E.O., Catholic Health Initiatives)
2009 - Gerald S. Adolph(Sr. Partner, Booz & Company & Alumnus/Board member of Cardinal Spellman H.S.) Fr. James E. Goode, OFM, Ph.D. (World-renowned Black Catholic Evangelist & Preacher; Founder of the National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life) Gerald M. Keenan(Managing Director, Palmer Bellevue LLC; former partner, PriceWaterhouseCooper LLP and Cooper & Lybrand LLP)
2008 - Dr. Benjamin S. Carson(World-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon & former Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medical Center; President & Co-founder, Carson Scholars; U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - appointed in 2017) Immaculee Ilibagiza(Survivor of Rwandan genocide; international peace & human rights advocate) +Thomas Moran(Chairman, President & CEO, Mutual of America; Chairman of the Board, Concern Worldwide, USA) Most Rev. J. Terry Steib, S.V.D., D.D. (Retired Bishop of the Diocese of Memphis) Michael Weekes(Retired long-time Sacristan, St. Patrick's Cathedral)
2007 - Ayris & Samuel Granby Jr.(Founders, Granby Funeral Services; Supporters of numerous community causes) Stanley E. Grayson(Vice Chairman & COO of M.R. Beal & Company; Co-Chairman of the Board, Catholic Charities - Archdiocese of New York) +Verne Oliver(Educator (of over 50 years); Associate Director, Gilder Foundation; Supporter of Archdiocesan Inner-city Schools) +Father John Brooks, S.J. (Former President, College of the Holy Cross) +His Eminence, Edward Cardinal Egan( Former Archbishop New York)
2006 - Mrs. Marilyn Benta Theodore M. Shaw, Esq. (Former Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and Alumnus of Cardinal Spellman H.S.) Dr. Stephen Sweeny(Former President, The College of New Rochelle) +Ms. Mary Lou Williams (Posthumously) (jazz musician & composer)
2005 - Dr. Norman C. Francis(President-Emeritus, Xavier University of Louisiana - the only historically Black, Catholic university in the US) Carla Ann Harris(Vice Chairman, Global Wealth Management and Senior Client Advisor at Morgan Stanley; Singer, Author & Catholic School Patron: Appointed by President Obama to chair the National Women's Buisness Council in 2013) Melissa M. Freeman, M.D. Justice Milton L. Williams(Former Presiding Justice, NYS Supreme Court~Appellate Division)
2004 - Mrs. Beryl Thompson-Adolph & +Mr. Leroy G. Adolph Mr. Carl Hamilton Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory(Archbishop of Atlanta; Former President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops)
2003 - Ms. Mary M. Bailey Ms. Mildred Mitchell
2002 - Mr. Daniel L. Coakley Ms. Mary Harwell
2001 - Mrs. Lillian Johnson Ms. Mary Elizabeth Pettit
2000 - +Mrs. Mary Cowan +Mrs. Estella Diggs
1999 - +His Eminence, John Cardinal O'Connor(Former Archbishop of New York; initial supporter of National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life) Mrs. Naomi McDowell-Byrd
1998 - Major General Rosetta Y. Burke Sr. Loretta Theresa Richards, F.H.M.
1997 - +Mrs. Dahlia Haskins +Mr. Philip Kane
1996 - +Bishop Norbert Dorsey, C.P., D.D., S.T.D. Mr. Lucien Paul
1995 - Mr. Edward Fox(St. Charles Borromeo)+Arthur Sheehan(Posthumously)
1994 - Sr. Una McCormack Mr. Herbert Johnson(Former Director of the Office of Black Ministry)
1993 - +Mrs. Ellen Tarry(Author of The Other Toussaint, a biography of Pierre Toussaint)
1992 - Fr. Guy Sansaricq(Bishop Guy Sansaricq as of August 2006)
1991 - Rev. Charles McTague Dr. James Dumpson
1990 - Sr. Francesca Thompson, OSF, Ph.D. Mr. Maceo A. Thomas, Jr.
1989 - Ms. Mae Matthews +Mr. Walter J. Petry
1988 - +Most Rev. Joseph A. Francis, SVD, D.D. +Clara McBride Hale