Every year since 1991 the National Flute Association has honored the best and the brightest of its colleagues with the Lifetime Achievement Award. The debut award went to Jean-Paul Rampal; since that time, luminaries from Julius Baker to Jeanne Baxtresser have joined the ranks, along with recipients of the NFA's intermittent National Service Award. Listed here are past Lifetime Achievement Award and National Service Award winners, with links to more information about them.
| 2008 | |
| » | Bickford Brannen , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Jim Walker , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Gerald Carey , National Service Award |
| 2007 | |
| » | Peter Lloyd , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | John Wion , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| 2006 | |
| » | Jeanne Baxtresser , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Stephen Preston , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| 2005 | |
| » | Peter-Lucas Graf , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Sheridan Stokes , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Mark Thomas , National Service Award |
| 2004 | |
| » | Friedrich von Huene , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Paula Robison , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Philip Swanson , National Service Award |
| 2003 | |
| » | Robert Aitken , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Hubert Laws , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| 2002 | |
| » | William Bennett , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Louis Moyse , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| 2001 | |
| » | Michel Debost , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Joseph Mariano , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| 2000 | |
| » | William Herbert , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Jack Wellbaum , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Ross Prestia , National Service Award |
| 1999 | |
| » | Jacob Berg , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Robert Cole , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| 1998 | |
| » | Albert Cooper , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Charles DeLaney , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | John Solum , National Service Award |
| 1997 | |
| » | Walfrid Kujala , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Donald Peck , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| 1996 | |
| » | Samuel Baron , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Robert Willoughby , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| 1995 | |
| » | Julius Baker , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | John Krell , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Albert Tipton , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| 1994 | |
| » | Frances Blaisdell , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Bernard Goldberg , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| 1993 | |
| » | Doriot Anthony Dwyer , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| » | Lois Schaefer , Lifetime Achievment Award |
| 1991 | |
| » | Jean-Pierre Rampal , Lifetime Achievment Award |
