This award was established in 1930 by Colonel Thomas Branch McAdams, an alumnus of the Richmond College Class of 1897. Colonel McAdams was the executive manager of the State Planters Bank and Trust Co. and a president of the American Bankers Association. He established this award for a student in the junior class of Richmond College who has rendered the most outstanding service to the University and to their fellow students.
The selection is based upon a consideration of character and leadership, with special reference to loyalty to the University. The recipient of the Branch McAdams Prize will have their name listed in the Commencement Program on the year of their graduation.
Recipients:
- 2025: Tim Khoh
- 2024: Yamir Chapman
- 2023: Karthik Lalwani
- 2022: Arju Patel
- 2021: Anthony Javon Lawrence
- 2020: Anthony J Polcari
- 2019: Aquilla Maliyekkal
- 2018: Gardner Baldwin Nash
- 2017: David Micah Fishman
- 2016: Kenneth Scott Anderson
- 2015: Timothy Baxter Gruber
- 2014: Alexander Michael Holva
- 2013: Lucas John Virnig
- 2012: Kadeem Alphanso Fyffe
- 2011: Dwayne Ervin Foster, Jr.
- 2010: Charles Mike III
- 2009: Brendan Schlauch
- 2008: Matthew Whitaker
- 2007: Stephen Horvath
- 2006: Ethan McWilliams
- 2005: Andrew Kemper Ryan, IV
- 2004: Brandon L Boxler
- 2003: Sebastian M. Lombardi
- 2002: Johnathan C. Zur
- 2001: Randolph K. Adler
- 2000: Dominick Quatuccio, Jr.
- 1999: Scott A. Barghann
- 1998: Bogdan Mihai Fleschiu
- 1997: Joseph William Manzoli, Jr.
- 1996: Jeffrey Arthur Berzolla
- 1995: James Francis Maloney
- 1994: Matthew James DeSarno
- 1993: Kevin LaMarr Jones
- 1992: Michael Charles Lynch, Jr.
- 1991: Rodger Steele Williamson
- 1990: Steven Lee Smith
- 1989: Damon Warren DeArment
- 1988: Peyton Carter Anderson
- 1987: W. Scott Johnson
- 1986: John Anthony Galateria
- 1985: Leland Devon Melvin
- 1984: James Kevin Nagle
- 1983: Rollin S. Burhans, III
- 1982: William Davidson, III
- 1981: Kent Kirbey Reynolds
- 1980: Brian Steel Wills
- 1979: Mike Joseph Link
- 1978: Steven Walker Noles
- 1977: James Rothgeb Sipe, Jr.
- 1976: Timothy Nolan Tuggey
- 1975: James David Gibbs
- 1974: Jarman Wade Thigpen
- 1973: Aubrey Jones Rosser, Jr.
- 1972: J. Gaston Williams
- 1971: Steven Lowell Nock
- 1970: Kermit Marshall Cook
- 1969: Lance Dews Wood
- 1968: Fred Dempsey Smith, Jr.
- 1967: William Joseph Viglione
- 1966: Robert Nelson Baldwin
- 1965: Brainard Guy Peters
- 1964: Raymond Clarence Robertson
- 1963: Archer Lafayette Yeatts, III
- 1962: John William Vaughan, Jr.
- 1961: J. Bradley Hunt Gunter
- 1960: John Leonard Spain, Jr.
- 1959: Tommy Percy Baer
- 1958: Joseph Daniel Biscaha
- 1957: Robert Gentry Kendall
- 1956: Edward McDowell Bishop
- 1955: Luther Wilbur Kersey
- 1954: Park Price Dickerson
- 1953: Lawrence Edward Matthews
- 1952: William Douglas Clark
- 1951: Benjamin Franklin Skinner
- 1950: Charles Lloyd Halloran
- 1949: Philip Frederick, Jr.
- 1948: David Basil Morrissett
- 1947: Thaddeus Talley Crump
- 1946: Award Not Listed
- 1945: Thaddeus Talley Crump
- 1944: Award Not Listed
- 1943: Award Not Listed
- 1942: John Laws Decker
- 1941: Thomas Emmett Warriner, Jr.
- 1940: George Edmond Massie, III
- 1939: Seabury Denison Stoneburner
- 1938: Edwin Wortham, IV
- 1937: Ralph Patterson Moore
- 1936: George Lea Harper
- 1935: Sidney Thomas Matthews, Jr.
- 1934: Richard Conduff Poage
- 1933: Victor Hugo Chaltain
- 1932: Edward L. Perlowski and William H. Pettus, Jr.
- 1931: Watkins Fugate
- 1930: James B. Daily
