The Father Joseph L. Walter Award was established in 2006 and has been awarded to the following members of CAAHP:
2025 - Erin Sayer, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
2023 - Tammy Welchert, University of Missouri - Kansas City
2021 - Cassandra Flambouras, University of Chicago
2020 - Peggy Zitek, University of Michigan
2019 - Heidi Lang, Saginaw Valley State University
2018 - David Owen, Indiana University, Bloomington
2017 - Paul Madtes, Mount Vernon Nazarene University
2016 - Kerry Cheesman, Capital University
2015 - Larry Savett, University of Minnesota
2015 - Judy Beniak, University of Minnesota
2014 - Patricia Cobb, University of Wisconsin
2013 - Judith Schwinghamer, Michigan State University
2012 - Chuck Hauck, University of Iowa
2011 - Ted R. Johnson, St. Olaf College
2010 - Alice Sima, Benedictine University
2010 - Mariella Mecozzi, University of Michigan
2009 - Judith Baxter, University of Illinois Chicago
2009 - Willian Harvey, Earlham College
2008 - Karen Paulsen, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
2008 - Larry Garrison Sullivan, Avila University
2006 - Suzette Combs, University of Cincinnati
Beginning in 2021, the Father Joseph L Walter Award will be awarded in Regional Meeting years.