2011 Recipient: Felipe Matos, Student Leader of the Trail of Dreams
2010 Recipient: William Francis Galvin, Massachusetts Secretary of State
2009 Recipient: Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino
2008 Recipient: Anthony Galluccio, State Senator
2007 Recipient: Isaura Mendes, Community Leader
2006 Recipient: The late Representative Deborah Blumer, D-Framingham
2005 Recipient: Andrea Cabral, Suffolk County Sheriff
2004 Recipients: Glenn Mello, Luis Pedroso and Mark & Elisia Saab, Lowell Area Community Leaders and Philanthropists
2003 Recipient: M. Teresa Cardoso, Somerville School Committee Member
2002 Recipient: Dr. José Figueiredo, former Principal, Harrington Middle School, Cambridge
2001 Recipient: Dr. Howard Koh, former Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health
2000 Recipient: Board and Employees of the Cambridge Portuguese Credit Union
1999 Recipient: Joseph Teixeira, former Partner, Arnold Communications
1998 Recipient: António F.D. Cabral, State Representative
1997 Recipient: Henrique de Campos Meirelles, former BankBoston CEO
1996 Recipient: Gil Santos, WBZ Radio and TV personality
1995 Recipient: Timothy J. Toomey, Jr., State Representative
1994 Recipient: Mayor Michael E. Capuano, Somerville, currently US Congressman
