2023 - Bill Haslam
Former Governor of Tennessee, Autho

2022 - Patti Callahan Henry
Patti Callahan Henry is a New York Times and USA Today Best Selling author, and speaker.

2019 - Mo Isom
Mo Isom is a New York Times Best Selling author, a nationally sought after speaker, and a faith-based blogger who is widely recognized as a powerful female voice rising up for her generation.

2018 - Ernie Johnson
Three-time Sports Emmy Award winner Ernie Johnson Jr. is in his 28th year with Turner Sports, serving as host and play-by-play announcer across Turner’s NBA, MLB, NCAA March Madness and PGA coverage.

2017 - Regi Campbell
An experienced investor, author and entrepreneur, Regi Campbell has served as CEO of four startup companies and involved in 14 other startups.

2016 - Tom Douglas
Tom Douglas is a songwriter who has written many number one hits for headliner country music artists such as Tim McGraw, Martina McBride and Lady Antebellum, and was inducted into Nashville's Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.

2015 - Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is Pastor of Passion City Church in Atlanta, Ga, and the Founder of Passion Conferences, a movement gathering collegiate-aged young people since 1997 in events across the US and around the globe.

2014 - Mark Richt
Richt is the head football coach of the University of Georgia. He is one of only six coaches in history to win two SEC championships (2002, 2005), and in 2010, Richt was named to the American Football Coaches Association Board of Trustees.

2013 - Joel Manby
Joel Manby is President and Chief Executive Officer of Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation (HFE), which develops and operates entertainment, tourism and hospitality properties in 10 states and is widely recognized as the premier privately held theme park operator in the United States.

2012 - Bill Curry
As a Two-time Super Bowl Champion, National Coach of the Year, Two-Time NFL Pro Bowl player, Author and commentator to a worldwide audience on ESPN, when Bill Curry talks of discipline and success, his life experience is proof-positive of the effectiveness of his methods.

2011 - Jeff Foxworthy
Jeff Foxworthy is one of the most respected and successful comedians in the country. He is the largest selling comedy-recording artist in history, a multiple Grammy Award nominee and best selling author of more than 26 books.

2010 - Patrick Morley
For three decades, Patrick Morley, author of the book The Man in the Mirror, has been regarded as one of America's most respected authorities on the unique challenges and opportunities that men face, impacting more than 10,000,000 lives worldwide.

2009 - Jeff Kemp
For eleven seasons, Jeff Kemp was a National Football League quarterback with the Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers, the Seattle Seahawks and the Philadelphia Eagles. He delivered his best performances in 1984 when he quarterbacked the Rams and led them to the playoffs, and in 1986, where he threw eleven touchdowns for the 49ers in six games.

2008 - H. Wayne Huizenga, Jr.
For eleven seasons, Jeff Kemp was a National Football League quarterback with the Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49ers, the Seattle Seahawks and the Philadelphia Eagles. He delivered his best performances in 1984 when he quarterbacked the Rams and led them to the playoffs, and in 1986, where he threw eleven touchdowns for the 49ers in six games.

2007 - Zell Miller
Out−spoken U.S. Senator, nationally−acclaimed governor, best−selling author, university professor, dedicated Christian, and U.S. Marine Sergeant. That only begins to describe Zell Miller, one of the most popular, colorful, and enduring political figures in America today.

2006 - J.C. Watts
J.C. Watts is the chairman of the J.C. Watts Companies.  As chairman, J.C. provides strategic focus and program leadership to the firm’s business engagements, alliances and initiatives.  He works with clients to implement business development, communications and public affairs strategies.  He currently leads a strategic alliance with Fleishman-Hillard, America’s largest public relations firms.

2005 - Sherron Watkins
Sherron Watkins is the former Vice President of Enron Corporation who alerted then-CEO Ken Lay in August 2001 to accounting irregularities within the company, warning him that Enron ‘might implode in a wave of accounting scandals. She has testified before Congressional Committees from the House and Senate investigating Enron’s demise.

2004 - Darrell Scott
Darrell Scott is the father of Rachel Joy Scott, one of the victims at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. His son, Craig, was in the library that day and watched as 10 of his classmates were gunned down. Two of his close friends died beside him, and his sister, Rachel was killed just outside the library door, a few yards away.