Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is presented the 2019 Kelley-Wyman Memorial Award by NAAG President and Montana Attorney General Tim Fox.
NAAG’s most coveted 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
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
