This award recognizes career achievement. A nominee must have either majored or minored in the Department of Journalism at Ball State, worked for student publications, or taught in the journalism department. A nominee must have excelled in some phase of journalism, making that person worthy of induction into the hall of fame.
1985 Sharley B. DeMotte, Louis E. Ingelhart, Kathleen M. Meehan
1986 Joseph E. Costa
1987 J. William Click, Ralph J. Kramer, A. Dean Speicher
1988 Nancy L. Green
1989 Marie Fraser, Richard P. Johns
1990 William Du Bois Jr., Marie F. Geary
1991 Edgar D. Henderson, Eugene F. Policinski
1992 Larry J. Horney
1993 Paul F. Ingels, Edward E. Lewis
1994 Emmett K. Smelser
1995 Michael P. Smith
1996 Holly G. Miller
1997 Earl L.Conn
1998 Beverley J. Pitts, Betsy M. Ross
1999 John M. Butler, Gary A. Hengstler, Homer B. Smith
2000 Jon Hughes
2001 Myra J. Borshoff, Mary Dale Walters
2002 Sam Smith
2003 Jan Clark
2004 Nancy Hastings
2005 Mike Lopresti
2006 Melvin Sharpe
2007 Timothy M. Andrews, Mark Popovich