2012 Hal Colston, Executive Director, SerVermont

2011 Mickey Fearn, Deputy Director for Communications and Community Assistance, National Prk Service

2010 None

2009 Abigail Kimbell, Chief, U.S. Forest Service

2008 Chuck Ross, Vermont State Director for U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy

2006 Will Raap, Founder and Chair, Gardener's Supply Company

2007 Darby Bradley, Special Assistant for Donor and Government Relations, Vermont Land Trust

2005 F. Herbert Borman, Oastler Professor Emeritus of Forest Ecology, Yale University

2004 Ann Pesiri Swanson, Executive Director, Chesapeake Bay Commission and Chair, Rubenstein School Board of Advisors
Stephen Rubenstein, President, Rubenstein Properties, Little Falls, NJ

2003 Lawrence K. Forcier, Dean, UVM Division of Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extension

2002 Robert Costanza, Director, UVM Gund Institute of Ecological Economics and Gund Professor of Ecological Economics

2001 Senator Gerry Gossens, Former Member and Chair, UVM Board of Trustees and Former Chair, Vermont Water Resources Board

2000 David Donath, President, Woodstock Foundation and Director, Billings Farm and Museum

1999 Ann Pesiri Swanson, Executive Director, Chesapeake Bay Commission

1998 John Todd, President, Ocean Arks International

Addresses to graduates, faculty, staff, families, and friends before 1998 were delivered by the Dean or Associate Dean of the School.