| 1980:
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Victor S. Bryant
Archie Davis
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| 1981:
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W. Dallas Herring
George Watts Hill
Prezell R. Robinson
Thomas J. White, Jr.
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| 1982:
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Bonnie E. Cone
Gordon Gray
Frank H. Kenan
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| 1983:
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Hargrove Bowles, Jr.
Elizabeth Scott Carrington
Henry Armfield Foscue
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| 1984:
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Adelaide Holderness
Howard Holderness |
| 1985:
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Ida Howell Friday
William Clyde Friday
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| 1987:
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Arnold Kimsey King
Robert Walter Scott
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| 1988:
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Terry Sanford
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| 1989:
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William Brantley Aycock
John Tyler Caldwell
Dean Wallace Colvard
LeRoy T. Walker
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| 1990:
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William A. Dees, Jr.
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| 1991:
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Warmoth T. Gibbs
R.D. McMillan, Jr.
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| 1992:
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John Hope Franklin
Charles Bishop Kuralt
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| 1993:
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William Henry Belk, Jr.
Sarah Belk Gambrell
John Montgomery Belk
Irwin Belk
Henderson Belk
Thomas Milburn Belk
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| 1994:
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Jay Milton Robinson
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans
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| 1995:
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John Lassiter Sanders
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| 1996:
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L. Felix Joyner
W. Duke Kimbrell |
| 1997: |
C.D. Spangler, Jr.
Meredith Riggs Spangler
Anna Spangler Nelson
Abigail Riggs Spangler
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| 1998:
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Dean E. Smith
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| 1999:
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Ernest E. Barnes, Jr.
Philip G. Carson
Raymond H. Dawson |
| 2000:
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Felton J. Capel, Sr.
Hugh L. McColl, Jr. |
| 2001:
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Tom Lambeth
Julius Chambers |
| 2002: |
Henry Frye
Governor James B. Hunt |
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