Year | U.S. Senator John Heinz Award for Outstanding Public Service By An Elected or Appointed Official | S. Roger Horchow Award for Outstanding Public Service by A Private Citizen | Outstanding Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged | Samuel S. Beard Award for Outstanding Public Service by An Individual 35 Years or Under | Outstanding Public Service in Professional Sports | Lifetime Achievement in Public Service | Outstanding National or Global Service by a Young American 25 Years or Under | Outstanding Public Service by a Corporation |
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| 1973 | Henry Kissinger | John W. Gardner | Cesar Chavez | Joseph A. Yablonski | | | | |
| 1974 | Elliot Richardson | Ralph Nader | Thomas Szasz | Maynard Jackson | | | | |
| 1975 | Peter W. Rodino Jr. | Katharine Graham | Rev. Leon Sullivan | Emmett Tyrrell | | | | |
| 1976 | Arthur F. Burns,Alan Greenspan,William E. Simon | John D. Rockefeller, III | Rev. Theodore Hesburgh | Vilma S. Martinez | | | | |
| 1977 | Michael Mansfield | Art Buchwald | Howard Rusk | Max Cleland | | | | |
| 1978 | Hubert H. Humphrey | Paul Mellon | Jerry Lewis | Bernard Powell | | | | |
| 1979 | Kenneth Gibson,William Donald Schaefer,Coleman A. Young | Howard Jarvis | Jesse Jackson | Denis Hayes | | | | |
| 1980 | Cyrus R. Vance | Norman Borlaug | Allard Lowenstein | US Olympic Hockey Team | | | | |
| 1981 | Warren Christopher | Walter Cronkite | Marva Collins | David Stockman | | | | |
| 1982 | Howard H. Baker | Bob Hope | Claude Pepper | Henry Cisneros | | | | |
| 1983 | Paul A. Volcker | Kirk Douglas | Helen Hayes | Jan Scruggs | | | | |
| 1984 | William H. Webster | J. Peter Grace | Maude E. Callen | Sally Ride | | | | |
| 1985 | James A. Baker, III | Lee Iacocca | Betty Ford | Trevor Ferrell Mary Beth Tober | | | | |
| 1986 | George P. Shultz | H. Ross Perot | Eugene Lang | Robert Hayes | | | | |
| 1987 | Justice William J. Brennan | Irving Brown | Ginetta Sagan | Steven Jobs | | | | |
| 1988 | C. Everett Koop | James W. Rouse | Fr. Bruce Ritter | Marlee Matlin | | | | |
| 1989 | Paul Nitze | Leo Cherne | Kimi Gray | Marc Buoniconti | | | | |
| 1990 | General Colin Powell | Jimmy Carter | Jaime Escalante | Anne Donahue | | | | |
| 1991 | Dick Cheney | Robert C. Macauley | Marian Wright Edelman | Wendy Kopp | | | | |
| 1992 | Justice Thurgood Marshall | Faye Wattleton | Eunice Shriver | Michael Brown andAlan Khazei | | | | |
| 1993 | Carla Hills | James Burke | Arthur Ashe | Mary Taylor | | | | |
| 1994 | George Mitchell,Bob Michel | Jim andSarah Brady | Paul Newman andJoanne Woodward | Wayne Meisel | | | | |
| 1995 | Justice Harry Blackmun | Walter H. Annenberg | Barbara Bush | Stacey Bess | | | | |
| 1996 | Sam Nunn | Brian Lamb | Rosalynn Carter | Andrea Jaeger | | | | |
| 1997 | Robert Dole | Nancy Brinker | Oseola McCarty | Michael Danziger | | | | |
| 1998 | Robert Rubin | Oprah Winfrey | Thaddeus S. Lott Sr. | Bobby Jindal | | | | |
| 1999 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Elizabeth Dole | Millard Fuller | Anthony Shriver | | | | |
| 2000 | John Glenn | Elayne Bennett | Benjamin Carson, M.D. | Faith Hill | | | | |
| 2001 | Madeleine Albright | Ted Benna | Dorothy Height | Lance Armstrong | | | | |
| 2002 | Rudolph Giuliani | Lilly Tartikoff | Bill andMelinda Gates | Chad Pregracke | | Ray Chambers | | |
| 2003 | Condoleezza Rice | Anne Douglas | Mathilde Krim | Matthew Meyer | | | | |
| 2004 | Justice Sandra Day O'Connor | Ken Burns | Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth | Kristen Lodal and Brian Kreiter | | | | |
| 2005 | Lee H. Hamilton,Thomas Kean | Vartan Gregorian | Dave Pelzer | Benjamin Shuldiner | | | | |
| 2006 | John Lewis | Michael Feinberg and David Levin | I. King Jordan | Peyton Manning | | | | |
| 2007 | Richard Daley | Jeffrey Sachs | Geoffrey Canada | Lindsay Hyde | | | | |
| 2008 | Joe Lieberman | Edward Jagen | Darell Hammond | Ocean Robbins | | | | |
| 2009 | Edward Kennedy | Greg Mortenson, Pamela Hawley | William (Bill) E. Milliken | Jennifer Staple[5] | | | | |
| 2010 | Michael R. Bloomberg,Cory A. Booker | Paul Farmer, M.D. | Jim Gibbons | Tad Skylar Agoglia | Nnamdi Asomugha,Tyrus Thomas,Curtis Granderson,Stuart Holden,Dwight Howard,Dirk Nowitzki,Justin Tuck,Lauryn Williams,Venus Williams,Ryan Zimmerman | Marlo Thomas,[6] | Ellie Duke, Katherine Foronda, Ted Gonder, Dallas Jessup, Emma Lindle, Tristan Love, Kristen Lowman, Jessie Mintz, Zoe Ridolfi-Starr, Joe Tigani, Kelly Voigt | |
| 2011 | Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Bill Shore | Jerry M. Reinsdorf | Brittany and Robbie Bergquist | Drew Brees,Tamika Catchings,Stephen Curry,Warrick Dunn,Brad Davis,Ernie Els,Ryan Hall,Paul Pierce,CC Sabathia,Brian Westbrook | Craig Hatkoff, Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro[6] | Sicomac Elementary School - Student Council, Sashin Choksh, Morgan Hartley, Greg Nance, Nick Hebert, Patrick Ip,Talia Leman, Sarah Nuss, Mordecai Scott, Jessica Singer, Tyrone Stevenson, Vanessa Strickland | Prudential Financial,Starkey Laboratories, Inc. |
| 2012 | David H. Petraeus | Harry Connick Jr. andBranford Marsalis | Richard Proudfit[7] | Amber Lynn Coffman | - Jeremy Affeldt, Dereck Faulkner, Julie Foudy, Jeff Karstens, Jim Kelly, Charlie Kimball, Pat LaFontaine, Hannibal Navies, Jeff Saturday, Troy Vincent, Marty Lyons
| The Robin Hood Foundation | Rachel & Kelsi Okun, Charles OrgBon III, Jourdan Urbach | Pfizer[8] |
| 2013 | Tom Coburn,Patrick Leahy[9] | Elie Wiesel[10] | Dolores Huerta[11] | Neilesh Patel[12] | Mark Ein[13] | | Sejal Hathi, Sam King, Alexis Werner | General Electric[14] |
| 2014 | Gabby Giffords[15] | Charles Best,[16] |Andrew Shue[17] | Pedro Jose Greer[18] | Jack Andraka, Ryan Patrick[19] | Mariano Rivera,[20]James Thrash[21] | Tom Brokaw[22] | Maria Keller,[23] Lillian Pravda | Weyerhaeuser |
| 2015 | Sonia Sotomayor[24] | Jeffrey Skoll,[25] | Ivan Hageman[26] | Adam Braun[27] | Lauren Bush[28] | Fred Jackson,[29] | | Robby Novak & Brad Montague of Kid President[30] Corinne Hindes & Katrine Kirsebom of Warm Winters[31] | Target Corporation[32] |
| 2016 | Arne Duncan[33] | Sean Parker[34] | Kyle Zimmer[35] | The Young American Soldier[36] | Eric Decker[37] | Billie Jean King[38] | Sophia Sánchez-Maes[39] | Salesforce |
| 2017 | Deval Patrick[40] | Peter Diamandis,Sheila Johnson[41] | | Patrisse Cullors,Alicia Garza,Opal Tometi[41] | Joe Torre[41] | Harry Belafonte[41] | Laurie Hernandez[41] | Warby Parker[41] |
| 2018 | | Elaine Wynn | Bryan Stevenson | Alexis Jones | Shaquille O'Neal, Chris Long | | Pia Phillips and Abbie Nelson | Mastercard |
| 2019 | | Scooter Braun | Mariska Hargitay | Morgan Guess | Von Miller,Shaquille O'Neal | | Morgan Guess | Patagonia |
| 2020 | | Kristen Bell | Patrick Lawler | Owen Colley | Larry Fitzgerald,Dawn Staley | | Owen Colley | TOMS |
| 2021 | Dr. Anthony Fauci | Jessica Ladd | DeAndre Brown | Margot Bellon & Isabel Wang | John Calipari | Joan Ganz Cooney | | JUST Goods |
| 2022 | General Jacqueline D. Van Ovost | Sharon McMahon | Paul Dreschnack, MD | | Shane Battier | Leeza Gibbons | Ben Collier, James Kanoff, and Aidan Reilly, founders of The Farmlink Project | |