SADA life membership is awarded to coaches, adjudicators, administrators or schools co-ordinators in recognition of years of dedicated and outstanding service to debating in South Australia. The following individuals have been awarded life membership:

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2023 - Madeleine McNeil

2020 - William Thomas

2019 - Lloyd Wicks & Emily Denbigh 

2017 - Ben Bishop & Raelene Schar

2013 - Jack Batty & Pat McCaffrie

2012 - Warwick Ambrose

2010 – Genevieve Lewis & Anna Baulderstone

2009 – Micaela McLean, Mark Hosking & Colleen McEwen

2008 – Daniel Quinlivan

2007 – Chad Catterwell

2004 – Peter Barry & Alison Lloyd-Wright

2002 – Todd Golding

2001 – Simon Slade, Victoria Bannon & Tom Webb

2000 – Fran Conroy & Robert Kol

1999 – Phillip Ivancic

1996 – George Katzis & Simon Slade (deceased)

1994 – Anthony Durkin & Francis Greenslade

Pre-1994 – Graham Edmonds-Wilson, Simon Stretton, Yolanda Evans, & Duncan Rose (deceased)