PAST ACCD PRESIDENTS:
This award is given each year to the President of ACCD, whose dedication, commitment, and assistance paved the way in preparing for that year's Annual Conference.
| Year | Recipient | Employing Agency |
| 2008 | Sharon Ziglar Shannon | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 2007 | Darrell Morgan | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 2006 | John Cummins | Alabama Department of Corrections |
| 2005 | Rebecca Snoddy | Jefferson County Family Court |
| 2004 | Elaine Lewis | Alabama Department of Corrections |
| 2003 | Executive Board | ACCD |
| 2002 | Bill Curtis | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 2001 | Cecelia Tubbs | Jefferson State Community College |
| 2000 | Joe Deese | Alabama Department of Corrections |
| 1999 | Diane L. Dunning | State Department of Human Resources |
| 1998 | VeLinda Weatherly | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1997 | Frank Vickery | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1996 | Millard Moon | U. S. Probation Officer |
| 1995 | Joe Funderburg | St. Clair County Juvenile Court |
| 1994 | Gladys Deese | Alabama Department of Corrections |
| 1993 | Joe Plaia | Roche Diagnostics Systems Inc. |
| 1992 | Susan Freeman | U. S. Probation Officer |
| 1991 | Randal Wilkins | Elmore County Juvenile Courts |
| 1990 | Tommy Pettis | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1989 | Berta Blackwell | Alabama Dept. of Youth Services |
| 1988 | Ron Sutton | Alabama Department of Corrections |
| 1987 | Kenneth W. Law | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1986 | Ned Estes | U. S. Probation Officer |
| 1985 | Mary W. Jeter | Juvenile Probation Officer |
| 1984 | William C. Young | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1983 | Tom Allen | Alabama Department of Corrections |
| 1982 | Jim D. Morrison | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1981 | Jack Savage | U. S. Probation Officer |
| 1980 | Carl Nowell | Rehab. and Crippled Children's Services |
| 1979 | James H. Davis | Juvenile Probation Officer |
| 1978 | Barbara Montoya | Juvenile Probation Officer |
| 1977 | Larry Trotter | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1976 | Tom Sorrells | District Attorney Dothan Alabama |
| 1975 | Perry D. Mathis | U. S. Probation Officer |
| 1974 | Jack Hunter | Ala. Boys Industrial School Birmingham |
| 1973 | Don D. Williams | State Dept. of Pensions & Securities |
| 1972 | Elmo Graves | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1971 | William R. Ray, Jr | U. S. Probation Officer |
| 1970 | John C. Watkins | Alabama Department of Corrections |
| 1969 | Roxie Craig | Juvenile Probation Officer Birmingham |
| 1968 | Jack Lufkin | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1967 | William C. Pugh | Bureau of Child Welfare |
| 1966 | Rufus Nix | U. S. Probation Officer |
| 1965 | Warren D. Gaston | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1964 | Tom Ferguson | Juvenile Probation Officer |
| 1963 | Davis Puckett | Juvenile Probation Officer |
| 1962 | E. A. Davis | U. S. Probation Officer |
| 1961 | Catherine Moloney | Bureau of Child Welfare Montgomery |
| 1960 | Joe H. Perry | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1959 | Elmo Turner | U. S. Probation Officer |
| 1958 | Ms. John H. Martin | Juvenile Probation Officer Birmingham |
| 1957 | E. E. Nash | U. S. Probation Officer |
| 1956 | Joe Bivona | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1955 | Sam Esslinger | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1954 | Dalton Moss | U.S. Probation Officer |
| 1953 | H. L. Searcy | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1952 | L. B. Stephens | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1951 | W. Foster Jordan | U. S. Probation Officer |
| 1950 | Fred Bryant | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1949 | Fred Bryant | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |
| 1948 | Fred Bryant | Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles |