NALS Distinguished Service Awards
| Crayton L. Buck | Longwood College | 1979 |
| Kenneth Frisbie | University of Northern Colorado | 1980 |
| Lynn E. Brown | Cortland University | 1981 |
| Robert Hymer | Jacksonville State University | 1982 |
| Ross Nielson | University of Northern Iowa | 1983 |
| James Jester | Southwest Missouri State University | 1984 |
| Loretta Krause | University of Hawaii | 1985 |
| Richard Sevey | Rhode Island College | 1986 |
| Gene McDonald | Southeast Louisiana State University | 1987 |
| Warner Tobin | Indiana University of Pennsylvania | 1987 |
| Kenneth Miller | Ball State University | 1988 |
| Ann Baldwin Taylor | Carnegie Mellon University | 1989 |
| Barbara Bittner | Florida Atlantic University | 1990 |
| Alvin Fabre | Louisiana State University | 1991 |
| John R. Johnson | Indiana University of Pennsylvania | 1992 |
| James Fox | Louisiana State University | 1993 |
| Mina Bayne | University of Wyoming | 1993 |
| Nancy Kasakow | University of Wyoming | 1994 |
| Judith Hechtman | Indiana University of Pennsylvania | 1995 |
| Mary Jane Taylor | Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania | 1996 |
| Roy Creek | University of Pittsburgh | 1996 |
| Wendell McConnaha | University of Northern Iowa | 1997 |
| Willie Woodbury, Jr. | South Carolina State University | 1999 |
| Ruth Fitzpatrick | Bridgewater State College | 1999 |
| Marian Vollmer | University of Pittsburgh | 2000 |
| Sandra Tsurutome | Florida Atlantic University | 2001 |
| Mary Foye | Bridgewater State College | 2002 |
| Ken Miller | Ball State University | 2003 |
| *Wes Corbett | University of Florida | 2003 |
| Kathleen McKenna | National Louis University | 2006 |
*Special Distinguished Service Award