| 1972 |
|
Allen E.
Pritchard, Jr., incoming Vice President, National League of Cities |
| 1973 |
|
J. J. "Jake"
Pickle, U.S. Congressman from Texas; member of the House Ways and
Means Committee |
| 1974 |
|
Richard W.
Bolling, U.S. Congressman from Missouri; Chairman of the House Rules
Committee |
| 1975 |
|
Renell Parkins,
Professor of Architecture and Planning, UT Austin |
| 1976 |
|
Alice M.
Rivlin, Director, Congressional Budget Office |
| 1977 |
|
Kenneth E.
Boulding, Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Colorado
at Boulder; 1976-77 Distinguished Visiting Tom Slick Professor of
World Peace, LBJ School |
| 1978 |
|
James C.
Wright, Jr., U.S. Congressman from Texas (Majority Leader) |
| 1979 |
|
Barbara Jordan,
former U.S. Congresswoman from Texas; holder of the Lyndon B. Johnson
Public Service Professorship, LBJ School |
| 1980 |
|
Joseph Califano,
Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Carter
Administration; former Special Assistant to President Lyndon Johnson |
| 1981 |
|
Walter E.
Mondale, former Vice President of the United States |
| 1982 |
|
Robert S.
Strauss, former Special U.S. Representative for Trade Negotiations;
former Chairman, Democratic National Committee |
| 1983 |
|
Henry Cisneros,
Mayor of San Antonio |
| 1984 |
|
Alexander
Heard, Chancellor Emeritus and Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt
University; Chairman of the Board, Ford Foundation |
| 1985 |
|
Bill Moyers,
editor, correspondent, and news analyst, CBS News; former Special
Assistant to the President and Press Secretary to President Lyndon
Johnson |
| 1986 |
|
Gary Hart,
U.S. Senator from Colorado |
| 1987 |
|
James C.
Wright, Jr., Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives |
| 1988 |
|
Yvonne B.
Burke, Director, Los Angeles Branch, Federal Reserve Bank; former
U.S. Congresswoman from California |
| 1989 |
|
Chase Untermeyer,
White House Presidential Personnel Director, Bush Administration |
| 1990 |
|
Corrado Pirzio-Biroli,
Deputy Head of the European Community Delegation, Washington, D.C. |
| 1991 |
|
Ann W. Richards,
Governor of Texas |
| 1992 |
|
William F.
Winter, former Governor of Mississippi |
| 1993 |
|
Richard D.
Lamm, former Governor of Colorado |
| 1994 |
|
William Greider,
author and journalist |
| 1995 |
|
Ellen Malcolm,
Founder and President, EMILY's List (resource for pro-choice Democratic
women candidates) |
| 1996 |
|
Ann W. Richards,
former Governor of Texas |
| 1997 |
|
Jack Rosenthal,
Editor, New York Times Magazine |
| 1998 |
|
Paul Begala,
Staff Adviser to President Bill Clinton |
| 1999 |
|
Kenneth S.
Apfel, U.S. Commissioner of Social Security; LBJ School Class of 1978 |
| 2000 |
|
Judith A.
Winston, Under Secretary and General Counsel, U.S. Department of Education;
former Director, President Clinton's initiative on race |
| 2001 |
|
James Carville,
political strategist/consultant |
| 2002 |
|
George H.W.
Bush, 41st President of the United States |
| 2003 |
|
Gwen Ifill,
Moderator and Managing Editor, PBS Washington Week |