The 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

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