2024 - Minnie Alexander, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI)
2023 - Judge Kathleen O'Connor, '75, Retired Spokane County Superior Court
2022 - The Honorable Christine Gregoire, '77, former governor of the State of Washington
2021 - Chief Justice Mike McGrath, '75, Montana Supreme Court Justice
2020 - The Gonzaga Law Medal was not awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019 - Mark DeForrest*, '97, Professor Emeritus Gonzaga Law
2018 - Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson, U. S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington
2017 - The Honorable Richard Guy, ’59, Retired Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court
2016 - Gary C. Randall, Professor Emeritus Gonzaga Law
2015 - Geoffrey Hartje and Emeritus Mark Wilson, Former Gonzaga Law Professors and University Legal Assistance Co-Founders
2014 - Chief Justice Barbara Madsen, ’77, Washington State Supreme Court Justice
2012 - John E. Clute*, ’63, Former Law School Dean
2011 - J . Richard Manning, ’60, Seattle attorney
2010 - Patrick A. Sullivan, ’59, Spokane attorney
2009 - Thomas J. Greenan, ’57, Seattle attorney
2008 - J. Donald Curran, ’60 and Va Lena Scarpelli Curran, ’58, Spokane attorneys
2007 - Norman L. Roberts, ’59, California attorney
2006 - Paul N. Luvera, ’59, Seattle attorney
2005 - Sam Reed, Secretary of State, State of Washington
2002 - Fr. Bernard J. Coughlin, S.J., Chancellor, Gonzaga University
2001 - Barbara C. Clark, Executive Director, Legal Foundation of Washington
1999 - Kathleen Taft, Spokane attorney
1998 - Judy Clarke, Federal Public Defender for Eastern Washington and Idaho
Thomas W. Hillier, II, Public Defender for Western Washington
1997 - Joseph P. Delay, ’52, Spokane attorney
1996 - Morris Dees, Director and Co-Founder, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, Alabama
1995 - Vern G. Davidson, Professor of Law, Gonzaga Law School
1994 - Harry M. Cross, Professor of Law, University of Washington
1993 - Carl Maxey, ’51, Spokane attorney
1992 - Jack R. Dean, ’50, Spokane attorney
1991 - Thomas L. Shaffer, Professor of Law, Notre Dame
1988 - Vernon R. Pearson, Washington State Supreme Court Justice
1987 - Lewis H. Orland, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Gonzaga Law School
1986 - Phillip S. Brooke, ’47, Spokane attorney
1985 - Joseph Nappi, ’44, Professor of Law, Gonzaga Law School
1984 - Walter Thomas McGovern, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court
1983 - Leo McGavick, ’29, Tacoma attorney
1982 - James Benjamin McInturff, ’52, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals, Division III
1981 - Charles Horowitz, Washington State Supreme Court Justice (retired)
1980 - Smithmoore P. Myers, ’39, U.S. Magistrate, former Gonzaga Law School Dean
1979 - William H. Williams, ’51, Washington State Supreme Court Justice
1978 - Floyd Hicks, Washington State Supreme Court Justice
1977 - William J. Lindberg, ’27, Federal Judge
1975 - Dr. John T. Noonan, Professor of Law, University of California
1974 - Honorable Richard H. Chambers, Chief Judge, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
1973 - Alfred J. Schweppe, University of Washington Law School Dean
1972 - Honorable Willard Roe, ’40, Superior Court Judge, Spokane
1971 - Thomas Malott, ’34, Spokane attorney
1970 - Honorable William J. Jameson, Federal District Judge, Montana
1969 - Honorable Robert C. Finley, Washington State Supreme Court Justice
1968 - Honorable Charles L. Powell, Federal District Judge, Eastern Washington
1967 - Honorable Frank P. Weaver, Washington State Supreme Court Justice
1966 - Benjamin H. Kizer, Spokane attorney
1965 - Charles P. Moriarty, Seattle attorney
1964 - Honorable Raymond F. Kelly, ’24, Superior Court Judge, Spokane
1963 - Honorable John O’Connell,’42, Attorney General, State of Washington
1962 - Archibald Cox, Solicitor General of the United States
*Awarded posthumously
