2012 Dr. Ruby Cheves, Georgia
2011 Ernestine Allen, Washington D.C.
2010 Dianne Callister, California
2009 Betty Jean Ulmer McGregor, South Carolina 1971 Betty Anthony Zahn, Oklahoma*
2008 Jo Ellen Blackwood, West Virginia 1970 Dorothy Lee Wilson, Tennessee*
2007 Ileen Loosle Barlow, Oregon 1969 E. Peterson LeTourneau, Texas*
2006 Laurie Richardson, Nevada 1968 Elisabeth Grossman Bodine, ND*
2005 Helen Bean, Oregon 1967 Minnie Knoop Guenther, Arizona*
2004 Mary Connelly Kegelman, Delaware 1966 Bertha Holt, Oregon*
2003 Mervlyn Keapo Swain Kitashima, Hawaii 1965 Lorena Chipman Fletcher, Utah*
2002 Rosalie Fuscaldo Gaziano, West Virginia 1964 Cora Hjertaa Stavig, SD*
2001 Jean Dawn Morris, South Dakota 1963 Olga Pearson Engdahl, Nebraska*
2000 Dorothy E. Barta, Texas 1962 Mary Celesta Weatherly, Alabama*
1999 Gail Ford Williamson, California 1961 Louise Giddings Currey, Tennessee*
1998 Diane Stirland Matthews, Arizona 1960 Emerald Barman Arbogast,
1997 Deen Day Smith, Georgia 1959 Jeannie Loitman Barron, MA*
1996 Carolyn Schumway, Hawaii 1958 Mary Roper Coker, South Carolina*
1995 Barbara Thompson, Oklahoma 1957 Hazel Hempel Abel, Nebraska*
1994 Corrine 'Lindy' Boggs, District of Columbia 1956 Jane Maxwell Pritchard, Michigan*
1993 Ruby Washington, Nebraska 1955 Lavina Christensen Fugel, Utah*
1992 Johanna Cubbage, Wyoming 1954 Love McDuffie Tolbert, Georgia*
1991 Joan R. Burney, Nebraska 1953 Ethlyn Weisgarver Bolt, Illinois*
1990 Nadine M. Matus, Utah 1952 Toy Len Goon, Maine*
1989 Nancy Dinwiddie Hawk, South Carolina* 1951 Mary Martin Sloop, NC*
1988 Thema Loss Kouzes, Virginia 1950 Elizabeth Roe Cloud, Oregon*
1987 Rita Whalen McCaffrey, Vermont 1949 Pearl Owens Grills, Texas*
1986 Martha Burke, Montana* 1948 Helen Gartside Hines, illinois*
1985 Louise Monaco Cimino, Nebraska 1947 Janette Stevenson Murray, Iowa*
1984 Patricia Kane Hamilton, Georgia 1946 Emma Clarissa Clement, Kentucky*
1983 Clemmie Webber, South Carolina* 1945 Georgianna Farr Sibley, NY*
1982 Helen Marie Burnstad Thompson, Idaho* 1944 Harriet Duff Phillips, Pennsylvania*
1981 Henrietta Jean Wombles Crouch, Kansas 1943 Mary Dabney Thompson, Ohio*
1980 Betty Carol Legget Lieder, Iowa 1942 Elizabeth Vize Berry, NC*
1979 Frances Davis Burtenshaw, Utah 1941 Dena Shelby Diehl, Kentucky*
1978 Ellen Edens McCall, Tennessee 1940 Edith Graham Mayo, Minnesota*
1977 Gloria Betty Langdon, Oklahoma 1939 Otelia K. Compton, Ohio*
1976 M. Garnett Grindstaff, New Mexico 1938 Grace Noll Crowell, Texas*
1975 Joesphine Wainman Burson, Tennessee 1937 Harriette Flora Gray, Nebraska*
1974 Phyllis Brown Marriott, District of Columbia* 1936 Frances Elenore Smith, California*
1973 Ruth Youngdahl Nelson, Minnesota* 1935 Lucy Keen Johnson, Georgia*
1972 Esther Hunt Moore, North Carolina* *Deceased
AMERICAN MOTHERS HAS PREVIOUSLY HONORED TWO MOTHERS AS WORLD MOTHERS:
1962 Clara Spoat Glen, Ohio
1974 Golda Meir, Israel*