- Noah Adams
- Marilou Awiakta
- Howard H. Baker Jr.
- Rick Boucher
- Daniel W. Brown
- Wilma Dykeman
- Gary Everhardt
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Nancy P. Hollister
- Amory Houghton Jr.
- Bill Jenkins
- Bill Kovach
- Juanita Morris Kreps
- Alice R. Manicur
- David McCullough
- Zell Bryan Miller
- Roy S. Nicks
- Anne B. Pope
- Jean Ritchie
- Albert P. Smith, Jr.
- Lee Smith
- Ross Spears III
- Jane B. Stephenson
- Jesse L. White