| 2020-21 | Kevin R. Cummings | Past NYS AOH District 8 Director, Organizer and Webmaster, Past President Orange County AOH and Past President Father
Donald J. Whelan AOH Division 2 |
| 2019 |
James O'Donnell | Orange County Legislator |
| 2018 | Maureen Morse |
LAOH Division 4 & 5, Irish Heritage Festival, & Parade Committe Member |
| 2017 | George W.
Anderson | Past President AOH Joseph Duelk Jr. Division 1 |
| 2016 | Sister Ann Daly |
Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Former Executive Director of Hospice
Planning and Educational Foundation, Inc. |
| 2015 |
Ann Slattery Michel | Past President of LAOH
St. Therese Division 4 |
| 2014 |
Stephen O'Shea | Co-Founder and Past President
of St. Brendan's GFC |
| 2013 |
Reverend John Logan, O.Carm. | Chaplain for
the Father Emanuel Hourihan AOH Division 4 |
| 2012 | Bill Boss | Educator and
Past President of Greenwood Lake Gaelic Cultural Society |
| 2011 | Joseph Ronald Heppes | Past
President of Father Emanuel Hourihan AOH Division 4 |
| 2010 | Annie Rabbitt |
N.Y. State Assemblywoman, 97th District |
| 2009 | Mary Anne Garay |
Past President L.A.O.H. Orange County Board |
| 2008 | Thomas F. Flynn |
Past President of AOH Joseph Duelk Jr. Division 1 |
| 2007 | Nancy Corrigan
MacDonald | Founder of Irish Heritage Festival |
| 2006 | Dennis P. Browne |
Director, District 8 A.O.H. |
| 2005 | James Graham, Sr. | Irish
Community Activist |
| 2004 |
Jeremiah P. Quill | Past Parade Chairman |
| 2003 | John Finnegan |
Past Director, District 8 A.O.H. |
| 2002 | Hon. John K. McGuirk |
Supreme Court Judge |
| 2001 | Sr. Margaret Murphy, O.P. | Professor of World Religions and Celtic Spirituality at Mt. St. Mary College |
| 2000 | Seamus Comiskey |
Past President, A.O.H. Orange County Board |
| 1999 | Mona Kehoe | President, Middletown Irish-American Society |
| 1998 | John Graham | Past Parade
Chairman |
| 1997 | James Lynch | President, Orange County A.O.H. |
| 1996 | John Greehy |
Past President Father Donald J. Whelan AOH Division 2 |
| 1995 | Patrick J. Colman |
Supporter of Irish Heritage |
| 1994 | William J. Larkin, Jr. | State
Senator |
| 1993 | Marion Mohr Wild | Irish Historian |
| 1992 | James Kelly | Local Irish Historian and Bagpiper |
| 1991 |
Christopher Turpin | Attorney and Irish
Entertainer |
| 1990 |
Douglas Garnham | President, Irish American
Unity Conference |
| 1989 |
Mary Holt Moore | Gaelic Societies Council
President |
| 1988 | Dorothy Hayden Cudahy | Host of Irish Memories Radio Program |
| 1987 | Martin Galvin |
Attorney and Spokesman for Irish Freedom |
| 1986 | Dick Wells | Prominent Radio Host |
| 1985 |
Most Rev. Austin B. Vaugh | Episcopal Vicar
of Orange County |
| 1984 |
Leo M. O'Grady | Prominent Local Irish Supporter |
| 1983 | Keara M.
O'Dempsey | Nothern Ireland Human Rights Activist |
| 1982 | Jimmy McPhail |
Entertainer |
| 1981 | Denis P. Mulcahy | Chairman
and Co-Founder, Project Children and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee |
| 1980 | John J. Finucane |
Northern Ireland Human Rights Activist |
| 1979 | Paul O'Dwyer | Former New York City Councilman |
| 1978 |
Jack McCarthy | WPIZ-TV Personality |
| 1977 | John I. McCarey |
Former Middletown Councilman |
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