| Year |
Recipients |
| 1987 |
- Warren G. Magnuson – Seattle (Senator)
- Dorothy Bullit – Seattle (KING TV Founder and Philanthropist)
- Orville A. Vogel – Pullman (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- Lester R. Sauvage M.D. – Seattle (Medical Pioneer)
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| 1988 |
- Edward Carlson – Seattle (Chair, Century 21, United Airlines)
- Dr. William Hutchinson – Seattle (Medical Research)
- Henry M. Jackson – Everett (Senator)
|
| 1989 |
- Julia Butler Hanson – Cathlamet (Congresswoman)
- Belding H. Scriber M.D. – Seattle (UW Medical School)
- Charles Odegaard – Seattle (UW President)
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| 1990 |
- James E. Reed – Seattle (Law)
- Francis Penrose Owens – Seattle (WSU Regent)
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| 1995 |
- Dr. Kathleen Ross - Prosser (Founder, Heritage College)
- Michael Copass M.D. – Seattle (Harborview Medical School)
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| 1998 |
- Dr E. Donnall Thomas – Seattle (Transplant Pioneer – Nobel Laureate)
- Grady Auvil – Orondo (Apple Orchardist and Pioneer)
- Stanley O. McNaughton – Seattle (Business Leader)
- Jacob Lawrence – Seattle (Painter)
|
| 2003 |
- Thomas Foley – Spokane (former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives)
- Leland H. Hartwell Ph.D. - Seattle (Nobel Prize-winning researcher)
- Helmut "Brownie" Braunsteiner – Tacoma (veterans' advocate)
- Ernest K. Gann – San Juan Island (former filmmaker and author)
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| 2007 |
- Dan Evans – Seattle (Former Governor and U.S. Senator)
- Dale Chihuly – Seattle (Renowned Artist, Teacher and Patron)
- Dr. Linda Buck, Ph.D. – Seattle (Nobel Laureate researcher)
- Dr. Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D. – Sunnyside (Shuttle Astronaut)
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| 2009 |
- Bill Gates Sr.- Seattle (Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
- Wilfred Woods - Wenatchee (Publisher, The Wenatchee World)
- Emma Smith DeVoe - Tacoma (Suffragette)
- May Arkwright Hutton - Spokane (Suffragette)
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| 2015 |
- Gretchen Shodde - Union (Activist / Founder of Harmony Hill Cancer Retreat Center)
- Billy Frank, Jr. - South Puget Sound (Native American environmental leader and treaty rights activist)
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