Alumna/Alumnus of the Year Past Recipients
| Frances Jones Holloway | 1967 | Reverend James A. Ruffin | 1979 | Henry W. (Buddy) Faulkner |
1994 | ||
| Fred R. Adams, Jr. | 1967 | Gloster Watson | 1980 | Lt. Gov. Eddie J. Briggs | 1995 | ||
| Sarah Littleton Weaver | 1968 | Wilbur Glenn Steele, Sr. | 1981 | Terry W. Brown | 1996 | ||
| Harry Noel Lackey | 1968 | Jake Louis Parmer | 1982 | E. Frank Hopper | 1997 | ||
| James C. Windham | 1969 | Viola W. Harper | 1983 | J. Nick Clark | 1998 | ||
| Peggy Wilson | 1970 | Dr. Russell Aubrey Stokes | 1984 | Daniel T. Hutcherson | 1999 | ||
| Dr. Heber C. Ethridge | 1970 | Dorothy Wedgeworth Shaw | 1985 | Dr. Virgil G. Warren | 2000 | ||
| Honorable John C. Stennis | 1971 | Ikie E. Ethridge | 1986 | A.L. Courtney, Jr. | 2001 | ||
| Walter L. Wright | 1972 | Garry V. Hughes | 1987 | Otho Brown | 2002 | ||
| Honorable H. C. Mike Watkins | 1973 | John W. Meacham, Jr. | 1988 | Jim Murray | 2003 | ||
| Dr. Walter B. Sorrell | 1974 | Dr. Louis T. Anderson, III | 1989 | Dr. Tommy Davis | 2004 | ||
| Robert Louis Agnew | 1975 | Beth C. Clay | 1990 | (EMCC President Emeritus) | |||
| Woodrow W. Hare, Ph.D. | 1976 | Victor Kalfus, Jr. | 1991 | Dr. N. James Smith | 2005 | ||
| Carolyn Hammack Evans | 1977 | W. Richard Chambers | 1992 | Marvin E. "Buster" Orr | 2006 | ||
| Dr. John Clay | 1978 | Bill Buckner | 1993 | Charles Box | 2007 |
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| Jerry Boatner | 2008 |