The APSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award is awarded to the faculty member who has shown exemplary professional performance, with an emphasis on teaching.
| 2013 | C. Bruce Myers | |
| 2012 | Mary Lou Witherspoon | |
| 2011 | Albert Randall | |
| 2010 | Karen Sorenson | |
| 2009 | Timothy Winters | |
| 2008 | Dewey Browder | |
| 2007 | Mickey Wadia | |
| 2006 | David Kanervo | |
| 2005 | Susan Calovini | |
| 2004 | Ronald Robertson | |
| 2003 | Sharon Mabry | |
| 2002 | David Till | |
| 2001 | John Butler | |
| 2000 | Malcom "Kip" Muir | |
| 1999 | Carlette Hardin | |
| 1998 | Dolores Gore | |
| 1997 | Edward Irwin | |
| 1996 | Lawrence E. Baggett | |
| 1995 | Albert Joseph Bekus | |
| 1994 | David H. Snyder | |
| 1993 | Ellen W. Kanervo | |
| 1992 | Robert F. Sears | |
| 1991 | Joe Fillipo | |
| 1990 | Eleanor Beiswenger | |
| 1989 | Betty Joe Wallace | |
| 1988 | Aaron A. Hutcheson | |
| 1987 | Lewis C. Tatham, Jr. | |
| 1986 | William G. Stokes | |
| 1985 | Aaron Schmitt | |
| 1984 | Durward S. Harris | |
| 1983 | George L. Mabry | |
| 1982 | Ernest Woodward | |
| 1981 | Malcolm Glass | |
| 1980 | Richard P. Gildrie | |
| 1979 | Charles M. Waters | |
| 1978 | Floyd Ford | |
| 1977 | Haskell Phillips | |
| 1976 | Elizabeth H. Stokes | |
| 1975 | Edward Irwin |