The Distinguished Contribution to Forensic Psychology is granted annually, at the discretion of the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology. The award is announced in October and the recipient is invited to present an address at the AAFP Annual Meeting the following year. The Executive Committee may seek nominations for the award, and anyone wishing to make a nomination may contact a member of the Executive Committee to do so.
Past Honorees
| 2023 | David Glassmire | ||
| 2022 | Reid Meloy | ||
| 2021 | Mark Cunningham | ||
| 2020 | Joel Dvoskin | ||
| 2019 | Terry Kukor | ||
| 2018 | Stephen Hart | ||
| 2017 | Deborah Collins | ||
| 2016 | Candyce Shields | ||
| 2015 | Christopher Slobogin | ||
| 2014 | Richard Frederick | ||
| 2013 | Matt Zaitchik | ||
| 2012 | Kathleen Stafford | ||
| 2011 | Mary Alice Conroy | ||
| 2010 | Robert Meyer | ||
| 2009 |  |
Diane Follingstad | |
| 2008 | |
Randy Otto | |
| 2007 | |
Ira Packer | |
| 2005 | |
Daniel Shuman | |
| 2004 | |
Kirk Heilbrun | |
| 2003 | Robert Fein | ||
| 2002 | Gail Goodman | ||
| 2001 | Robert Hare | ||
| 2000 | Steven Ceci | ||
| 1999 | Paul Lipsitt | ||
| 1998 | Henry Steadman | ||
| 1997 | |
Alan Goldstein | |
| 1996 | Stanley Brodsky | ||
| 1995 | Elizabeth Loftus | ||
| 1994 | Stephen Golding | ||
| 1993 | Charles Patrick Ewing | ||
| 1992 | Saleem Shah | ||
| 1991 | John Monahan | ||
| 1990 | Norm Poythress | ||
| 1989 | Stephen Morse | ||
| 1988 | Thomas Grisso | ||
| 1987 | Ted Blau | ||
| 1986 | David Shapiro | ||
| 19851 | Richard Rogers |