| 1938 | David W. Canham Jr. | Highland Park |
| 1939 | Stuart Dingle | Chelsea |
| 1940 | Jerry Brown | Pontiac |
| 1941 | Stanley Brauer | Lansing |
| 1942 | Frederick Schoenrath | Dearborn |
| 1943 | Sanford Perlis | Detroit |
| 1944 | Charles A. Mead | Milan |
| 1945 | Ralph Sosin | Detroit |
| 1946 | David Anderson | Iron Mountain |
| 1947 | Roy Goethe | Ishpeming |
| 1948 | James Leskee | Marquette |
| 1949 | William Capitan | Owosso |
| 1950 | Orville Pugh | Lansing |
| 1951 | John Erickson | Ironwood |
| 1952 | David Bos | Holland |
| 1953 | Roger Forbush | Rochester |
| 1954 | Jerry Rider | Lansing |
| 1955 | Roderick V. Wiley Jr. | Lake Orion |
| 1956 | Larry Werschky | Berkley |
| 1957 | Dennis Baker | Battle Creek |
| 1958 | Wynell Whitmore | Detroit |
| 1959 | Philip C. Bockman | Grand Rapids |
| 1960 | William R. Holland | Albion |
| 1961 | Nick J. Hall | Saginaw |
| 1962 | John B. Bowens | Travis City |
| 1963 | Charles A. Bethel | Birmingham |
| 1964 | Geoffrey L. Hayes | Travis City |
| 1965 | Eric Hanson | Saginaw |
| 1966 | Kenneth Zick | Grand Rapids |
| 1967 | David L. Combs | Trenton |
| 1968 | Robert L. Hartzler | Clair |
| 1969 | John Lemnon | Grand Rapids |
| 1970 | George Butson | Ironwood |
| 1971 | Barry Doublestein | Wyoming |
| 1972 | Robert Elliott | Ann Arbor |
| 1973 | James E. Foulds | Saginaw |
| 1974 | Naaman H. Moorman | Ypsilanti |
| 1975 | Joanthan Mays | Gaylord |
| 1976 | Karl Robinson | Detroit |
| 1977 | Randall Reeves | Ypsilanti |
| 1978 | Chris J. Herker | Charlevoix |
| 1979 | Greg Gadek | Tecumsen |
| 1980 | Tom Mcgovern | Escanaba |
| 1981 | Ken Faulkner | Farmington Hills |
| 1982 | Michael S. Bowen | Grand Rapids |
| 1983 | Mark Swoish | Livonia |
| 1984 | William Armstrong | Belleville |
| 1985 | Cedric L. McKoy | Grand Rapids |
| 1986 | Brian M. Dunn | Auburn Hills |
| 1987 | Derrick Willis | White Cloud |
| 1988 | Paul McCreary | Detroit |
| 1989 | Bradley J. Harbaugh | Niles |
| 1990 | Maurice A. Barnes Jr. | Grand Rapids |
| 1991 | Seth Berg | Huntington Woods |
| 1992 | Marcus K. Driscoll | Detroit |
| 1993 | Anthony Brown | Oxford |
| 1994 | Ernest J. Spycher | Mt. Pleasant |
| 1995 | David M. Takitaki | Grand Haven |
| 1996 | Lawrence R. Nunn | Canton |
| 1997 | Imran Shafi | Canton |
| 1998 | John E. James | Farmington Hills |
| 1999 | Ken D. Frost | Whitmore Lake |
| 2000 | David Kinchen | Farmington Hills |
| 2001 | Brett Gillespie | East Lansing |
| 2002 | Marcus Gowdy | Redford |
| 2003 | James Leaf | Ann Arbor |
| 2004 | Nicholas Elliott | Owosso |
| 2005 | Casey Jones | Grand Rapids |
| 2006 | Alexander Roman | Lambertville |
| 2007 | Michael Jones | Grand Ledge |
| 2008 | Jeremy Browning | Farmington Hills |
| 2009 | Adomas Rauckis | Imlay City |
| 2010 | Jaison Smith | Detroit |
| 2011 | Aaron Mukerjee | Saline |
| 2012 | Dyvon Melling | Tipton |
| 2013 | Gabriel Klotz | Midland |
| 2014 | Ryan Comrie | Owosso |
| 2015 | Robert Arterburn | Grand Haven |
| 2016 | Robbie Felton | Ann Arbor |
| 2017 | Sean M. McNally-Hodgson | Ypsilanti |
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