Each year, at the National Conference or Summer Institute, the AHS honors an individual with the Lifetime Achievement Award for their extraordinary service to The American Harp Society and the harp.
- 2011 - Molly Hahn
- 2010 - Sarah E. Maxwell and Lynne Wainwright Palmer
- 2009 – Patricia Wooster
- 2008 – Ruth Papalia and Sam Milligan
- 2007 – Anne & Burton Adams
- 2006 – Ann Mason Stockton
- 2004 – Dorothy Remsen
- 2002 – Catherine Gotthoffer