| 2015-16 | Waynette Ditto | Hewitt Public Library |
| 2014-15 | Maria Redburn | Bedord Public Library |
| 2013-14 | Cathy Ziegler | Plano Public Library |
| 2012-13 | Lisa Youngblood | Harker Heights Public Library |
| 2011-12 | Jana Prock | Keller Public Library |
| 2010-11 | Rebecca Pool | Deer Park Public Library |
| 2009-10 | Dolores Greenwald | Sachse Public Library |
| 2008-09 | Mary Alford Cohrs | Bellaire Public Library |
| 2007-08 | Kerry McGeath | Southlake Public Library |
| 2006-07 | Dale G. Fleeger | Weatherford Public Library |
| 2005-06 | Becky Sullivan | Terrell Public Library |
| 2004-05 | RoseAleta Laurell | Ingleside Public Library |
| 2003-04 | Beth Scudder | McKinney Memorial Public Library |
| 2002-03 | Steven L. Brown | N. Richland Hills Public Library |
| 2001-02 | Joyce Baumbach | Plano Public Library System |
| 2000-01 | Mary Alford | Bellaire City Library |
| 1999-00 | Sheila Ross Henderson | Pasadena Public Library |
| 1998-99 | Sue Compton | McKinney Public Library |
| 1997-98 | Kathy Ritterhouse | Grand Prairie Memorial Library |
| 1996-97 | Ron Heezen | Longview Public Library |
| 1995-96 | Eva D. Poole | Denton Public Library |
| 1994-95 | Pamela G. Bonnell | Waco-McLennan County Library |
| 1993-94 | Pat Bonds | Zula B. Wylie Library, Cedar Hill |
| 1992-93 | Maurine Gray | Beaumont Public Library |
| 1990-92 | Beth Little Bormann | Carrollton Public Library |
| 1989-90 | Dale Ricklefs | Round Rock Public Library |
| 1988-89 | Lamar Veatch | Irving Public Library |
| 1987-88 | Dorothy Progar | Waco-McLennan County Library |
| 1986-87 | Mary Kay Snell | Amarillo Public Library |
| 1985-86 | Clara B. Mounce | Bryan Public Library |
| 1984-85 | Evelyn Jaeggli | Kerrville Public Library |
| 1983-84 | Patricia Doyle | McKinney Public Library |
| 1982-83 | Maribelle Davis | Plano Public Library System |
| 1981-82 | Evelyn F. Benton | Deer Park Public Library |
| 1980-81 | James Stewart | Victoria Public Library |
| 1979-80 | Judy Kuykendall | Temple Public Library |
| 1978-79 | Lowell Lindsey | Nicholson Memorial Library, Garland |
| 1977-78 | W. Dee Blackmon | Abilene Public Library |
| 1976-77 | Alice Green | Amarillo Public Library |
| 1975-76 | Joella Orr | Denton Public Library |
| 1974-75 | Roman Bohachevsky | Pasadena Public Library |
| 1973-74 | David Earl Holt | Austin Public Library |
| 1972-73 | Irwin Secton | San Antonio Public Library |
| 1971-72 | Maurine Gray | Beaumont Public Library |
| 1969-71 | John Wayne Smith | El Paso Public Library |
| 1968-69 | Len Radoff | Pasadena Public Library |
| 1967-68 | Flora Richardson Wilhite | Sterling Municipal Library, Baytown |
| 1966-67 | Nelleen Womack | Mesquite Public Library |