KU Law Alumni Association Distinguished
Alumnus/na Award
The KU Law Society Distinguished Alumnus/na Award
is presented annually to a KU School of Law graduate who has
distinguished himself or herself through exemplary service to
the legal profession, his or her community, the University,
and the state or country.
Recipients
- 2007 Donald W. Giffin, L'53
- 2007 James M. Haughey, L'39
- 2006 N. William Hines, Jr., L'61
- 2006 James W. Paddock, L'56
- 2006 Christopher Smith, L'72
- 2005 Senator Samuel D. Brownback, L'82
- 2005 Janet Murguia, L'85
- 2005 Gary A. Waldron, L'79
- 2005 Douglas D. Wheat, L'74
- 2004 J. Eugene Balloun, L'54
- 2004 Malcolm S. Robinson, L'75
- 2003 Robert L. Driscoll, L'64
- 2003 Catherine McGuire, L'73
- 2002 Tyron C. Means, L'73
- 2002 John M. Rounds, L'39
- 2001 Judge G. Thomas VanBebber, L'53
- 2001 Judge Cordell D. Meeks Jr., L'67
- 2001 David Davenport, L'77
- 2001 Attorney General Carla Stovall, L'82
- 2000 Judge Mary Beck Briscoe, L'73
- 1999 Donald W. Bostwick, L'68
- 1998 Richard L. Bond, L'60
- 1997 Norman Jeter, L'37
- 1996 Constance M. Achterberg, L'53
- 1995 Donald L. Cordes, L'59
- 1994 Justice Fred N. Six, L'56
- 1993 Bernard E. Nordling, L'49
- 1992 Professor Emeritus William A. Kelly, L'49
- 1991 Howard M. Immel, L'38
- 1990 Robert L. Howard, L'59
- 1989 Justice Robert H. Miller, L'43
- 1988 Richard A. Barber, L'34
- 1987 John E. Hurley, Jr., L'62
- 1986 Robert A. Schroeder, L'37
- 1985 Justice David Prager, L'42
- 1984 Omer G. Voss, L'39
- 1983 Robert C. Foulston, L'48
- 1982 Judge Leo A. McNalley, L'25
- 1981 Justice Donnan Stephenson, L'48
- 1980 Judge Richard D. Rogers, L'47
- 1979 Governor Robert F. Bennett, L'52
- 1978 Leonard O. Thomas, L'34
- 1977 Paul L. Wilbert, L'38
- 1976 Regent Glee S. Smith, L'47
- 1975 Justice Hugo T. Wedell, L'20
- 1974 Elmer C. Jackson, Jr., L'35
- 1973 Frank L. Snell, L'24
- 1972 Judge Earl E. O'Connor, L'50
- 1971 Major General Kenneth J. Hodson, L'37
- 1970 Justice Robert T. Price, L'27
- 1969 Judge Walter A. Huxman, L'14
- 1968 Judge Spencer A. Gard, L'22
- 1967 George B. Powers, L'28
- 1966 Paul R. Wunsch, L'25
- 1965 Claude E. Chalfant, L'27
- 1964 Justice John F. Fontron, L'26