Past Historians of the Year
2024 Steve Quillin
2023 Claude Sitton
2022 James White, III, Newbern, NC
2021 Richard Eller, Hickory, NC
2020 Lloyd Richard Bailey, Sr., Durham, NC
2019 Ran Shaffner
2018 Carl White, North Wilkesboro, NC
2017 Larry Richard Clark, Morganton, NC
2016 Edison C. “Ed” Curtis & Sue Curtis, Salisbury, NC
2015 Judith W. Wolfe, Jonesville, NC
2014 Kevin P. Duffus, Raleigh, NC
2013 Henry Bowers, Cedar Falls, NC
2012 Jeff Halsey, Laurel Springs, NC
2011 Fay Byrd, Roaring River, NC
2010 Michael C. Hardy, Crossnore, NC
2009 Robin S. Lattimore, Rutherfordton, NC
2008 John Wright, Shelby, NC
2007 Brenda H. Messer, Morganton, NC
2006 West John Elwin Misenheimer, Jr., Charlotte, NC
2006 East Vina Hutchinson Farmer, New Bern, NC
2005 West Betsy D. Pittman, Valdese, NC
2005 East Wilbur D. Jones, Jr., Wilmington, NC
2004 Mamre Marsh Wilson, Beaufort, NC
2003 Rodney Bradford Kemp, Morehead City, NC
2002 Jim Rumley, Cooleemee, NC
2001 – West Trent Strickland, Hamlet, NC
2001 – East Lynn Salsi, Greensboro, NC
2000 – West Betty N. Smith, Hot Springs, NC
2000 – East Les Ewen, Emerald Isle, NC
1999 Susan Taylor Block, Wilmington, NC
1998 – West Daniel Barefoot, Lincolnton, NC
1998 – East Paulette Felton Wester, Eure, NC
1997 – West Louise Howe Bailey, Flat Rock, NC
1997 – East Robert B. Robinson, III, Garysburg, NC
1996 – West George Alexander Jones, Hendersonville, NC
1996 – East John Hairr, Lillington, NC
1995 James Vann Comer, Cameron, NC
1994 – West Evelyn Deal Rhodes, Conover, NC
1994 – East Doris Little Wilson, Williamson, NC
1993 Julia Montgomery Street, Advance, NC
1992 – West W. Hugh Harkey, Jr., Charlotte, NC
1992 – East Diane Cobb Cashman [No location listed]
1991 – West Elizabeth Bray Sherrill, Sherrills Ford, NC
1991 – East Ethel W. Twiford, Fayetteville, NC
1990 Miles Philbeck, Chapel Hill, NC1990
Grace W. Turner, Wilson, NC
1989 William Doub Bennett, Raleigh, NC
1988 Mary Lewis Rucker Edmunds, Greensboro, NC
1987 Robert Wray McCarter, Jr., Reidsville, NC
1986 Margaret M. Hofmann, Weldon, NC
1985 Lucille Sermons Winslow, Hertford, NC
1984 William Dallas Herring, Rose Hill, NC
1983 Garland P. Stout, Greensboro, NC
1982 Joe M. McLaurin, Rockingham, NC
1981 Blackwell Pierce Robinson, Greensboro, NC
1980 Claude Hunter Moore, Turkey, NC
1979 Hugh Buckner Johnston, Wilson, NC