The UGA Fellow Award is given in recognition of those living individuals whose distinguished contributions and on-going commitment to the field of genealogy are of national or international scope. This may be evidenced by any combination of publications, teaching and speaking, or leadership of major genealogical organizations over a significant period of time.

2023: Jill N. Crandell, AG
2022: D. Joshua Taylor
2021: Angela Packer McGhie
2020: Roger P. Minert
2019: Karen Mauer Jones
2018: Paul Milner
2017: Barbara Vines Little
2016: Thomas Kent Edlund
2015: Pamela Boyer Sayre and Richard Sayre
2014: Craig R. Scott
2013: Linda Turner
2012: Claire Bettag
2011: Paula Stuart Warren
2009: Thomas Jones
2007: Paul Allen
2006: Barbara Dodson Walker
2006: Gerald Haslam
2005: George Ryskamp
2004: Mark Lowe
2003: Dean Hunter
2002: Tony Burroughs
2002: Kory L. Meyerink
2001: Karen Clifford
2000: L. Reynolds Cahoon
2000: Raymond S. Wright III
1999: John Philip Colletta
1999: Jayare Roberts
1998: Sharon Carmack
1997: Birdie Monk Holsclaw
1997: Wendy Elliott
1996: David E. Rencher
1995: Loretto Dennis Szucs
1995: Curt Witcher
1993: Sandra Hargraves Luebking
1992: Gordon Remington
1990: Elizabeth Shown Mills
1990: Marsha Hoffman Rising
1989: Johni Cerny
1989: Anthony J. Camp
1987: Arlene Eakle
1987: Roger D. Joslyn
1986: Lyman D. Platt
1986: Nick J. Vine Hall
1985: Neil D. Thompson
1984: George D. Durrant
1984: J. Carlyle Parker
1983: Laureen Jaussi
1983: Willard Heiss
1983: Gloria Chaston
1982: Kip Sperry
1982: Robert E. Ward
1982: Cecil Humphrey Smith
1982: David Ensign Gardner
1981: P. William Filby
1981: Robert Charles Anderson
1981: Val D. Greenwood
1981: Milton Rubincam
1981: Clifford Neal Smith
1980: Henry E. Christensen
1980: David H. Pratt
1979: Jimmy B. Parker
1979: Effinghamm P. Humphrey, Jr.
1979: Noel Carter Briggs
1978: John Vallentine
1978: Jerry D. Wells