Past Distinguished Mycologist Awardees
| Year | Awardee |
| 2023 | Dennis Desjardin |
| 2022 | Joyce Longcore |
| 2021 | Joseph Heitman |
| 2020 | Gregory M Mueller |
| 2019 | Donald Pfister |
| 2018 | Thomas Bruns |
| 2017 | Jean Lodge Roy Halling |
| 2016 | Donald T. Wicklow |
| 2015 | George Carroll |
| 2014 | Rytas Vilgalys Charles Wilson Bacon |
| 2013 | Jim Anderson |
| 2012 | Linda Kohn Kerry O’Donnell |
| 2011 | Amy Rossman |
| 2010 | Gary J. Samuels |
| 2009 | Timothy J. Baroni |
| 2008 | John W. Taylor |
| 2007 | David J. McLaughlin |
| 2006 | Harvey C. Hoch |
| 2005 | Walter Gams Charles Mims |
| 2004 | Jack Rogers |
| 2003 | Meredith Blackwell David Malloch |
| 2002 | James M. Trappe |
| 2001 | James W. Kimbrough Robert A. Shoemaker |
| 2000 | Jan J. Kohlmeyer Ronald H. Petersen |
| 1999 | Ian K. Ross Richard T. Hanlin |
| 1998 | George Barron Orson K. Miller Jr. |
| 1997 | No award given |
| 1996 | John Rippon I. Brent Heath Karl Esser Bryce Kendrick |
| 1995 | No award given |
| 1994 | Salomon Bartnicki-Garcia Robert L. Gilbertson |
| 1993 | Richard K. Benjamin Charles E. Bracker |
| 1992 | Margaret E. Barr Bigelow Melvin S. Fuller |
| 1991 | Richard P. Korf Robert W. Lichtwardt |
| 1990 | Emory G. Simmons Harry D. Thiers |
| 1989 | No award given |
| 1988 | D.B.O. Saville |
| 1987 | Horace L. Barnett John S. Karling |
| 1986 | Mildred K. Nobles Rolf Singer |
| 1985 | Stanley J. Hughes Josiah L. Lowe |
| 1984 | Ross. W. Davdson Charles Drechsler |
| 1983 | Roy F. Cain Everette S. Luttrell |
| 1982 | Libero Ajello Chester W. Emmons Clifford W. Hesseltine Alexander H. Smith |
| 1981 | Constantine J. Alexopoulos John N. Couch George Cummins Lindsay Olive Kenneth B. Raper |