The F. Ross Holland Award is considered the lighthouse community's highest honor. The award, named in honor of F. Ross Holland, a historian who worked for the National Park Service for many years and authored multiple lighthouse books, was originated by the American Lighthouse Coordinating Committee and is now presented by the United States Lighthouse Society.
| 2001 | F. Ross Holland, Jr. |
| 2004 | Ken Black - Founder of the Maine Lighthouse Museum Wayne Wheeler - Founder of the U.S. Lighthouse Society |
| 2007 | Cullen Chambers - Tybee Island Historical Society Dick Moehl - President of Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association Mike Vogel - Buffalo Lighthouse Association; President of U.S. Lighthouse Society |
| 2010 | American Lighthouse Foundation Candace Clifford - lighthouse researcher and author Thomas Tag - lighthouse researcher and author |
| 2013 | Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association |
| 2014 | Tim Harrison - lighthouse author and editor of Lighthouse Digest United States Lighthouse Society |
| 2016 | Lee Radzak - Executive Director of Split Rock Lighthouse Don Terras - Director of Grosse Point Lighthouse |
| 2017 | Ralph Eshelman - National Maritime Preservation Task Force; U.S. Lighthouse Society Board Member Anne Webster-Wallace - Founder of Friends of Seguin Island Light Station |
| 2018 | Terry Pepper - Executive Director of Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association |
| 2020 | Chery Shelton-Roberts and Bruce Roberts - lighthouse historians and authors and co-founders of Outer Banks Lighthouse Society James "Woody" Woodward - lampist and Fresnel lens expert Paul St. Germain - President Thacher Island Association |
| 2021 | Henry Gonzalez - Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse restoration; President of U.S. Lighthouse Society |