NCDA Eminent Career Award Winners
| 1966 Anne Roe | 1997 Garry R. Walz | |
| 1967 Robert Hoppock | 1998 Dale Prediger | |
| 1968 Harry D. Kitson | 1999 JoAnn Harris Bowlsbey | |
| 1969 Edward Roeber | 2000 Samuel Osipow | |
| 1970 Seymour Wolfbein | 2001 James P. Sampson | |
| 1971 Roy Anderson | 2002 J. Lee Richmond | |
| 1972 Donald E. Super | 2003 Robert Reardon | |
| 1973 Helen Wood | 2004 Thomas Harrington | |
| 1974 Blanche Paulson | 2005 Duane Brown | |
| 1975 C. Gilbert Wrenn | 2006 Jane Goodman | |
| 1976 Leona Tyler | 2007 Spencer Niles | |
| 1977 E. G. Williamson | 2008 Mark Pope | |
| 1978 Henry Borow | 2009 Rich Feller | |
| 1979 David V. Tiedeman | 2010 Itamar Gati | |
| 1980 John L. Holland | 2011 Dennis Engels | |
| 1981 Kenneth B. Hoyt | 2012 Robert Chope | |
| 1982 Russell Flanders | 2013 Howard Splete | |
| 1983 Anita M. Mitchell | 2014 Norman Amundson | |
| 1984 John O. Crites | 2015 Robert Lent | |
| 1985 John W. Rothney | 2016 Janet Lenz | |
| 1986 Edwin L. Herr | 2017 Carole Minor | |
| 1987 Nancy Schlossberg | 2018 David Blustein | |
| 1988 Carl McDaniels | 2019 Barry Chung | |
| 1989 Norman Gysbers | 2020 Paul Hartung | |
| 1990 William C. Bingham | 2021 (no winner) | |
| 1991 L. Sunny Hansen | 2022 Marilyn Maze | |
| 1992 Martin R. Katz | 2023 Rebecca Dedmond | |
| 1993 Donald Zytowski | ||
| 1994 John Krumboltz | ||
| 1995 David A. Jepsen | ||
| 1996 Mark L. Savickas |
