| Name | Year |
| Amy Gutmann | 2023 |
| Robert Zimmer | 2023 |
| Constance M. Carroll | 2022 |
| Timothy P. White | 2022 |
| Shirley Ann Jackson | 2021 |
| Eduardo J. Padron | 2021 |
| J. Michael Bishop | 2020 |
| John L. Hennessy | 2020 |
| Freeman A. Hrabowski III | 2019 |
| Diana Natalicio | 2019 |
| Richard C. Atkinson | 2018 |
| C. Judson King III | 2018 |
| Mary Sue Coleman | 2017 |
| George W. Breslauer | 2016 |
| Hanna Holborn Gray | 2015 |
| Marye Anne Fox | 2014 |
| Ricardo Romo | 2013 |
| Marian C. Diamond | 2012 |
| Robert M. Berdahl | 2012 |
| William G. Bowen | 2010 |
| Charles E. Young | 2009 |
| Harold T. Shapiro | 2008 |
| Karl S. Pister | 2007 |
| Nannerl O. Keohane | 2006 |
| Jack W. Peltason | 2005 |
| Lee C. Bollinger | 2004 |
| John Hope Franklin | 2002 |
| Herbert F. York | 2000 |
| Yuan T. Lee | 1998 |
| Chang-Lin Tien | 1997 |
| Sanford H. Kadish | 1996 |
| Philip Selznick | 1996 |
| Frank H. T. Rhodes | 1995 |
| Daniel E. Koshland Jr. | 1994 |
| Ira Michael Heyman | 1993 |
| Henry Rosovsky | 1992 |
| Derek Bok | 1992 |
| Thomas E. Everhart | 1992 |
| Kenneth S. Pitzer | 1991 |
| Robert J. Brentano | 1991 |
| Edmund G. Brown Sr. | 1990 |
| J. William Fulbright | 1989 |
| Morrough P. O'Brien | 1988 |
| Lincoln Constance | 1988 |
| Ewald T. Grether | 1988 |
| Harry R. Wellman | 1988 |
| Robert E. Marshak | 1987 |
| Glenn T. Seaborg | 1986 |
| Lord Noel Gilroy Annan | 1985 |
| Sanford S. Elberg | 1984 |
| David Riesman | 1983 |
| Lynn White Jr. | 1982 |
| Richard W. Lyman | 1981 |
| Joel H. Hildebrand | 1980 |
| Choh-Ming Li | 1979 |
| James B. Conant | 1977 |
| Elinor Raas Heller | 1976 |
| John W. Gardner | 1974 |
| Theodore M. Hesburgh | 1973 |
| Earl Warren | 1972 |
| Roger W. Heyns | 1971 |
| Sir Eric Ashby | 1970 |
| J. E. Wallace Sterling | 1969 |
| CLARK KERR | 1968 |
In 1968, the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate created the Clark Kerr Award as a tribute to the leadership and legacy of President Emeritus Kerr.
The Clark Kerr Award recognizes an individual who has made an extraordinary and distinguished contribution to the advancement of higher education. Past recipients have come from inside and outside the Berkeley community, including former California Governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and past Chancellors Ira Michael Heyman and Chang-Lin Tien.