The Massie Medal for Distinguished Achievement Medal is the oldest and most prestigious award given by the Garden Club of Virginia. It was inaugurated in 1928 by Susanne Williams Massie during her presidency and was given by her until her death in 1952. Since that time it has been given in her memory.
| 2013 | Sue Thompson |
| 2012 | Mary Hart Darden |
| 2011 | Nina Williams Mustard |
| 2010 | Mina Walker Wood |
| 2009 | Margaret Page Bemiss |
| 2008 | Mary Lou Seilheimer |
| 2007 | Eugenia and David Diller |
| 2006 | Bessie Bocock Carter |
| 2005 | Betty Gwaltney Schutte |
| 2004 | Dorothy Harris Montgomery |
| 2003 | Barbara L'Orange Catlett |
| 2002 | The Honorable W. Tayloe Murphy, Jr. and Helen Turner Murphy |
| 2001 | Martha Dorries Whipple |
| 2000 | Katherine Turner Mears |
| 1999 | Nancy St. Clair Talley |
| 1998 | Mrs. William D. Bayles |
| 1997 | Mrs. Henley L. Guild |
| 1996 | Elizabeth Perkins Varner |
| 1995 | Mary Ramey Cunningham |
| 1994 | Mrs. Toy D. Savage, Jr. |
| 1993 | Mrs. Robert L. Hopkins, Jr. |
| 1992 | The Garden Club of the Northern Neck |
| 1991 | Miss Jean Printz |
| 1990 | Mrs. Lucius J. Kellam |