About the Award

This annual award is given to the attorney general who has done the most to advance the objectives of the National Association of Attorneys General.

Originally called the Wyman Memorial Award, it was renamed the Kelley-Wyman Award in recognition of the outstanding service and contributions of Frank Kelley, who served as attorney general of Michigan from January 1962 to January 1999. The award was instituted as a gift, made by former New Hampshire Attorney General Louis Wyman, in memory of his father.

A panel of attorneys general, including members of the NAAG Executive Committee, selects the recipient of this award annually.

Past Recipients of the Kelley-Wyman Award

2025: John Formella, New Hampshire

2024: Ellen F. Rosenblum, Oregon

2023: Dave Yost, Ohio

2022: Karl A. Racine, District of Columbia & Doug Peterson, Nebraska

2021: Herbert H. Slatery III, Tennessee

2020: Tim Fox, Montana

2019: Derek Schmidt, Kansas

2018: Lisa Madigan, Illinois

2017: George Jepsen, Connecticut

2016: Marty Jackley, South Dakota

2015: Greg Zoeller, Indiana

2014: Martha Coakley, Massachusetts

2013: Roy Cooper, North Carolina

2012: John Suthers, Colorado

2011: Rob McKenna, Washington

2010: Terry Goddard, Arizona

2009: Lawrence Wasden, Idaho

2008: Hardy Myers, Oregon

2007: Thurbert Baker, Georgia

2006: Joseph Curran, Jr., Maryland

2005: W.A. Drew Edmondson, Oklahoma

2004: Bill Lockyer, California

2003: William H. Sorrell, Vermont

2002: Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut

2001: Carla J. Stovall, Kansas

2000: Heidi Heitkamp, North Dakota

1999: Margery Bronster, Hawaii

1998: Christine O. Gregoire, Washington

1997: Robert Butterworth, Florida

1996: Daniel E. Lungren, California

1995: Grant Woods, Arizona

1994: Mike Moore, Mississippi

1993: Charles W. Burson, Tennessee

1992: Mary Sue Terry, Virginia

1991: Robert Abrams, New York

1990: Tom Miller, Iowa

1989: John K. Van de Kamp, California

1988: John Steven Clark, Arkansas

1987: Dave Frohnmayer, Oregon

1986: Frank J. Kelley, Michigan

1985: Gerald L. Baliles, Virginia

1984: William Guste, Jr., Louisiana

1983: John D. Ashcroft, Missouri

1982: D. MacFarlane, Colorado

1981: Francis X. Bellotti, Massachusetts

1980: Slade Gorton, Washington

1979: Paul L. Douglas, Nebraska

1978: William J. Scott, Illinois

1977: Arthur K. Bolton, Georgia

1976: Andrew P. Miller, Virginia

1975: Francis B. Murch, Maryland

1974: Robert B Morgan, North Carolina

1973: Elliot L. Richardson, United States

1972: Crawford C. Martin, Texas

1971: Gary K. Nelson, Arizona

1970: Duke W. Dunbar, Colorado

1969: John B. Breckinridge, Kentucky

1968: Daniel R. McLeod, South Carolina

1967: Louis J. Lefkowitz, New York

1966: Waggoner Carr, Texas

1965: Clarence A. H. Meyer, Nebraska

1964: Joseph Nugent, Rhode Island

1963: Jack P. F. Gremillion, Louisiana

1962: Januar D. Bove, Jr., Delaware

1961: John J. O. Connell, Washington

1960: Will Wilson, Texas

1959: John M. Dalton, Missouri

1958: Fred M. Standley, New Mexico

1957: George F. Guy, Wyoming