2016: AMBASSADOR PIERRE-RICHARD PROSPER

Lead trial attorney in the prosecution of Jean-Paul Akayesu—the first conviction of rape as an act of genocide in international law

2015: MICHAEL LEWIS

Internationally bestselling author and contributing editor to Vanity Fair

2014: CARLOS MARTINS

Founder of Wizard Language Schools and Grupo Multi

2013: MALCOLM GLADWELL

Internationally bestselling author; staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996

2013: DR. JOHN WARNOCK

American computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc.

2012: NORMAN ORNSTEIN

Political scientist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute

2012: THOMAS E. MANN

W. Averell Harriman Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution

2011: MARTIN TOLCHIN

Founder of The Hill and a driving force in launching Politico

2011: YAIR HIRSCHFELD

Key architect of the 1993 Oslo Accords between Israel and Palestine

2010: MITT ROMNEY

Former President and CEO of the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee, Governor of Massachusetts, GOP Presidential candidate

2010: DALLIN H. OAKS

Served as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since May 1984; he was president of Brigham Young University from 1971 to 1980, and a justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1980 until his resignation in 1984 to accept his calling to the apostleship

2009: FRANK KEATING

Governor of Oklahoma during the Oklahoma City bombing

2009: THOMAS FRIEDMAN

World-renowned author, three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, foreign affairs expert, and New York Times journalist

2008: BRENT SCOWCROFT

National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush

2008: DAN JONES

President of Dan Jones & Associates and emeritus University of Utah political science lecturer. Former director of the Bureau of Government and Opinion Research

2007: LEE HAMILTON

Former Congressman, Co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, Vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission

2007: KAY ATKINSON KING

Senior Policy Advisor, House Committee on International Relations

2006: ALEC RUSSELL

Washington Bureau Chief, Daily Telegraph

2006: LARRY SABATO

Director, University of Virginia Center for Politics

2006: MICKEY IBARRA

Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Clinton administration

2006: BRIAN SCHWEITZER

Governor of Montana

2005: WILLIAM NIXON

Chairman & CEO, Policy Impact Communications

2004 PETER BEINART

Editor, The New Republic

1994: ROCCO SICILIANO

Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce

1986: LARRY SABATO

Professor, University of Virginia

1983: JOSEPH BIDEN

U.S. Senator (D-DE)

1982: ROBERT GIAIMO 

U.S. Congressman (D-CT)

1982: TOM KOROLOGOS

Founder and President, Timmons & Company

1982: GENE EIDENBERG

Exec. Director, Democratic National Committee

1981: JUANITA KREPS

Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce

1980: JOHN SWIGERT, JR. 

U.S. Congressman (D-CO)

1979: RALPH NADER

Presidential Candidate, 2000 and 2004

1979: FRANK CHURCH

U.S. Senator, (D-ID)

1979: NORMAN MAILER

Author

1979: RICHARD NEUSTADT

Political author, presidential expert

1978: YITZHAK RABIN

Prime Minister of Israel

1978: JOHN CHANCELLOR 

Anchorman, NBC Nightly News

1978: WILLIAM BUCKLEY, JR. 

Editor, The National Review

1977: FUMIHIKO TOGO

Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.

1977: WILLIAM BROCK

Chairman, Republican National Committee

1977: BRENT SCOWCROFT

National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush

1977: ALGER CHAPMAN

Chairman, Squibb Corporation

1976: CHARLES WIGGINS

U.S. Congressman (R-CA)

1976: GEORGE MCGOVERN

U.S. Senator (D-SD)

1975: GARY ENGEBRETSON

Republican National Committee

1975: ROBERT STRAUSS

Chairman, Democratic National Committee

1975: JOHN ANDERSON

U.S. Congressman (R-IL)

1974: JAMES RESTON

New York Times Editor

1974: RICHARD LUGAR

U.S. Senator (R-IN)

1974: BEN WOOD

Professor, Columbia University

1972: JOHN TUNNEY

U.S. Senator (D-CA)

1972: COLIN JACKSON 

Member of British Parliament

1972: HARRY DENT

Special Counsel to President Richard M. Nixon

1972: MARK HATFIELD

U.S. Senator (R-OR)

1971: PAUL PORTER

Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission

1971: SIDNEY JAMES

Vice President, Time Inc.

1971: JOHN DALY 

Journalist

1971: WALTER HICKEL 

Governor (R-AK)

1971: BARRY GOLDWATER, JR. 

U.S. Congressman (R-CA)

1970: LARRY MARGOLIS 

Exec. Director, Conference on State Legislatures

1970: ROBERT FINCH

Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare

1970: HUBERT HUMPHREY

Vice President of the United States

1969: WILLIAM ANDERSON

U.S. Congressman (D-TN)

1969: GEORGE ROMNEY 

Governor (R-MI)

1968: RICHARD BOLLING

U.S. Congressman (D-MO)

1968: EDWARD KENNEDY

U.S. Senator (D-MA)

1968: MIKE MANSFIELD 

U.S. Senator (D-MT)

1967: JAMES FARLEY

Chairman, Democratic National Committee

1967: ROBERT SMYLIE 

Governor (R-ID)

1966: CARLETON KENT

Chief, Chicago Times

1966: LEONARD HALL
Chairman, National Republican Party