The Katy Murphy WACAC Service Award is presented to a WACAC member who has displayed outstanding service to WACAC and/or NACAC, exceptional service to the community, responsiveness to the needs of students and families in the school-to-college transition, significant research in admissions or field directly related to college admission and sustained, long-term commitment to the principles of our profession.
- 2024 Kati Swanson
- 2023 Lara Sandora
- 2022 Rick Diaz
- 2021 Catalina Cifuentes
- 2021 David (Dewey) Wilmot
- 2020 Elsa von Heydenreich
- 2019 Ed Schoenberg
- 2018 Maureen Chang
- 2017 Radia Alouache
- 2016 Susan Lee
- 2015 NaDean Krasnove
- 2014 Paul Driscoll
- 2013 Lori Schmidt
- 2012 Peggy Hock
- 2011 Kavin Buck
- 2010 Jane McClure
- 2009 Marc Meredith
- 2009 Sue DeRuyter
- 2008 WACAC Government Relations Committee
- 2008 Elaine Berman
- 2007 Linda Conti
- 2006 Matt Fissinger
- 2005 Barbara Schultz
- 2004 Linda Zimring
- 2003 Arnaldo Rodriguez
- 2002 Mike Drummy & the Chapman University Admission Staff
- 2001 Rae Lee Siporin
- 2000 Esther Hugo
- 1999 Maria Bowser
- 1998 Pat Coleman
- 1997 Ed Schoenberg
- 1997 Bonnie Laughlin
- 1996 Duncan Murdoch
- 1996 Carolyn Barnhart
- 1995 Paul Ranslow
- 1995 Marilyn Blum
- 1994 Laurice Sommers
- 1994 Dea Nelson
- 1993 Elsa Clark
- 1992 Bill Henley
- 1991 Kris Zavoli
- 1990 Katy Murphy
- 1989 Sherry Smith
- 1984 Marilyn Blum
- 1983 Steve Hankins
- 1982 Martin Tucker
- 1981 Jack Wright