Each year the Rutherford Chamber of Commerce honors members of the community who have provided exceptional effort and service. These "Citizens of the Year" are honored at a dinner each Spring or at the annual Chamber Holiday Parade.
| 2007 | Boiling Spring Lodge #152 F & A Masons |
| 2006 | 55 Kip Center |
| 2005 | Rutherford Ambulance Corps, in Memory of Tom Arnold |
| 2004 | Men & Women of Rutherford serving in the Armed Services in Southwest Asia |
| 2003 | Rutherford Elks Lodge #547 |
| 2002 | Edward Gibney |
| 2001 | Barbara Chadwick |
| 2000 | Herbert Cutter |
| 1998 | First Night & Festival Committees |
| 1997 | John Daub & Richard Allen, Jr. |
| 1994 | William H. Brown |
| 1993 | L. Joseph Fallon |
| 1992 | Elsie Miller & James S.T.S. Ely, Jr. (Co-Honorees) |
| 1991 | Robert E. Wesp |
| 1990 | Andrew E. Bertone |
| 1989 | Thomas G. Fuscaldo |
| 1988 | Charles E. Clare |
| 1987 | Dr. Murray Elters, Jr. |
| 1986 | Willard A. & Marjorie Wood Reenstra |
| 1985 | Dr. & Mrs. H. G. Miller |
| 1984 | Walter Calhoun |
| 1983 | Sylvia Sammartino |
| 1982 | Justin Tokarski |
| 1981 | Barry Dancy, Williams Center |
| 1980 | Seymour Mahler & William P. King (Man of the Year) |
| 1979 | Peter Ferraro |
| 1978 | Joseph Job, Sheriff |
| 1977 | Reverend Fred Holloway, Presbyterian Church |
| 1976 | Robert Van Winkle |
| 1975 | William Staehle |
| 1974 | Barbara Chadwick |
| 1973 | Dr. Clair Black, V.P., F.D.U. |
| 1972 | Arthur Clare |
| 1971 | Jack Wallance, Football Coach |
| 1970 | Mrs. Farleigh S. Dickinson, Sr. |
| 1969 | Alvin Lugg & Charles W. Davies, W.W.I. Vets |
| 1968 | Griswold B. Holman |
| 1967 | Edward T. T. Williams, Chairman of the Board, F.D.U. |
| 1966 | Herbert Cutter |
| 1965 | Edward Bigelman, Police Chief |
| 1964 | Lee Moss |
| 1963 | George Weed |
| 1962 | Lt. John J. Knyff |
| 1961 | Julian C. Green, Forman Mayor |
| 1960 | Dr. Charles M. Cooper, Physician since 1915 |
| 1959 | Harold J. Landshof, Borough Clerk |
| 1958 | Henry Prentiss Becton |
| 1957 | Dr. Peter Sammartino |
| 1956 | Dr. Charles Cropsey |
| 1955 | Thomas M. Crotzer, Boy Scouts |
| 1954 | Dr. William Carlos Williams |
| 1953 | Charles A. Van Winkle |
| 1952 | W. R. Huntington, Jr., Rutherford Red Cross |
| 1951 | Thomas N. Monroe, Dir. of Music Rutherford Schools |
| 1950 | Clarence A. Fetterly, Supt. of Schools |
| 1949 | John Thomas Wilson, Sr., Editor Rutherford Republican |
| 1948 | Judge Guy L. Fake |
| 1947 | Dorothy Burrows, Librarian |
| 1946 | Edgar Williams |
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