Lifetime Achievement Award
The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association just completed it’s 117th Annual Meeting. The K.C.M.B.A. is one of the oldest bar associations west of the Mississippi. It has been the recipient of many national honors including the ABA Award of Merit, Outstanding Overall Excellence, 1977 and President Ronald Reagan’s Citation for the Homeless Outreach Program, 1987. The K.C. Bar Foundation received the 1999 Difference Maker Award for the Summer Law Internship Program, underwritten by The Lantz Welch Charitable Foundation.
It occasionally bestows the Lifetime Achievement Award to an individual for a lifetime of outstanding service resulting in the growth and development of the law, improvement in the administration of justice and increased recognition of the contributions of the legal profession to the welfare of society.
There have been 27 recipients of this association’s most prestigious award (attached is a list of some of the recipients).
The award was given this year to Lantz Welch of Kansas City, MO. . . . “in recognition of his outstanding and dedicated service to The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and K.C. Bar Foundation. He has held the post of President for the Association and the Foundation and has responded continually to the need of the law profession and the community. His donations to the establishment of the Bar Center have enabled the Association to provide unlimited education services to the legal community and helped make the KCMBA a leader in this arena. Since 1993, The Lantz Welch Charitable Foundation has underwritten the entire Summer Law Internship Program. This program has provided internship positions in private practice and government to inner city youths interested in the legal profession and enabled the legal community to have a direct impact on their lives. We honor him as an individual that continually strives to promote public confidence in the profession of law.”
SOME OF THE PAST RECIPIENTS
1960 Dr. Frederick D. Lewis, Dean of UKC Law School
1961 Justice Charles E. Whittaker, Supreme Court of U.S.
1967 Dean Patrick Kelly, Dean of UMKC Law School
1971 Judge Elmo B. Hunter, U.S. District Court
1980 Judge Floyd R. Gibson, U.S. District Court
1991 Judge Scott O. Wright, U.S. District Court
1992 George Brett (special award)
1994 Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Supreme Court of U.S.
1996 Justice Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of U.S.
1997 R. Lawrence Ward, Past President KCMBA
1998 Senator Nancy Kassebaum
1999 Senator Thomas Eagleton
2001 Lantz Welch, Past President KCMBA
The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association just completed it’s 117th Annual Meeting. The K.C.M.B.A. is one of the oldest bar associations west of the Mississippi. It has been the recipient of many national honors including the ABA Award of Merit, Outstanding Overall Excellence, 1977 and President Ronald Reagan’s Citation for the Homeless Outreach Program, 1987. The K.C. Bar Foundation received the 1999 Difference Maker Award for the Summer Law Internship Program, underwritten by The Lantz Welch Charitable Foundation.
It occasionally bestows the Lifetime Achievement Award to an individual for a lifetime of outstanding service resulting in the growth and development of the law, improvement in the administration of justice and increased recognition of the contributions of the legal profession to the welfare of society.
There have been 27 recipients of this association’s most prestigious award (attached is a list of some of the recipients).
The award was given this year to Lantz Welch of Kansas City, MO. . . . “in recognition of his outstanding and dedicated service to The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association and K.C. Bar Foundation. He has held the post of President for the Association and the Foundation and has responded continually to the need of the law profession and the community. His donations to the establishment of the Bar Center have enabled the Association to provide unlimited education services to the legal community and helped make the KCMBA a leader in this arena. Since 1993, The Lantz Welch Charitable Foundation has underwritten the entire Summer Law Internship Program. This program has provided internship positions in private practice and government to inner city youths interested in the legal profession and enabled the legal community to have a direct impact on their lives. We honor him as an individual that continually strives to promote public confidence in the profession of law.”
SOME OF THE PAST RECIPIENTS
1960 Dr. Frederick D. Lewis, Dean of UKC Law School
1961 Justice Charles E. Whittaker, Supreme Court of U.S.
1967 Dean Patrick Kelly, Dean of UMKC Law School
1971 Judge Elmo B. Hunter, U.S. District Court
1980 Judge Floyd R. Gibson, U.S. District Court
1991 Judge Scott O. Wright, U.S. District Court
1992 George Brett (special award)
1994 Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Supreme Court of U.S.
1996 Justice Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of U.S.
1997 R. Lawrence Ward, Past President KCMBA
1998 Senator Nancy Kassebaum
1999 Senator Thomas Eagleton
2001 Lantz Welch, Past President KCMBA